Tukituki electorate boundaries used since the Tukituki is a New Zealand parliamentary

electorate Electorate may refer to: * The people who are eligible to vote in an election, especially their number e.g. the term ''size of (the) electorate'' * The dominion of a Prince-elector in the Holy Roman Empire until 1806 * An electoral district An ...

, returning one Member of Parliament to the

New Zealand House of Representatives The House of Representatives is the sole chamber of the New Zealand Parliament. The House passes Law of New Zealand, laws, provides Ministers of the New Zealand Government, ministers to form Cabinet of New Zealand, Cabinet, and supervises the ...

. Named after the

Tukituki River The Tukituki River is found in the eastern North Island of New Zealand. It flows from the Ruahine Ranges to the Pacific Ocean at the southern end of Hawke's Bay. The river flows for , east and then northeast, passing through the town of Waipuk ...

which runs through the electorate, it was established for the 1996 general election and has existed since. The current MP for Tukituki is

Anna Lorck Anna Louise Lorck is a New Zealand politician of the New Zealand Labour Party. She was elected to the New Zealand House of Representatives at the 2020 general election as the MP for Tukituki. Early life and career Lorck grew up in Waipukurau ...

of the Labour Party, who won the seat from the National Party's

Lawrence Yule Lawrence Arden Yule (born 1963) is a New Zealand politician. He was Mayor of Hastings from 2001 to 2017, and a Member of Parliament representing the Tukituki electorate for the National Party from 2017 to 2020. Political career Mayor of Hastin ...

at the 2020 general election.

Population centres

Tukituki was created ahead of the change to

mixed-member proportional Mixed-member proportional representation (MMP or MMPR) is a mixed electoral system in which votes cast are considered in local elections and also to determine overall party vote tallies, which are used to allocate additional members to produce ...

(MMP) voting at the 1996 election; it is a merger of the old

Hastings Hastings () is a large seaside town and borough in East Sussex on the south coast of England, east to the county town of Lewes and south east of London. The town gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took place to the north-west ...

seat with

Central Hawke's Bay District Central Hawke's Bay District is part of the Hawke's Bay Region in the North Island of New Zealand. Formed in 1989, it has an area of 3,333 square kilometres with a population of It had a population of 12,717 people as of the 2013 census. This is ...

. Tukituki centres on the southern

Hawke's Bay Hawke's Bay ( mi, Te Matau-a-Māui) is a local government region on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island. The region's name derives from Hawke Bay, which was named by Captain James Cook in honour of Admiral Edward Hawke. The region is ...

region, with the bulk of the electorate's population coming from the city of

, with other towns drafted in to bring the electorate up to the required population. In 2008, a general northwards tug on boundaries in the

Taranaki Taranaki is a region in the west of New Zealand's North Island. It is named after its main geographical feature, the stratovolcano of Mount Taranaki, also known as Mount Egmont. The main centre is the city of New Plymouth. The New Plymouth Dist ...

Manawatū-Whanganui Manawatū-Whanganui (; spelled Manawatu-Wanganui prior to 2019) is a region in the lower half of the North Island of New Zealand, whose main population centres are the cities of Palmerston North and Whanganui. It is administered by the Manawat ...

and Hawke's Bay regions saw

Waipukurau Waipukurau is the largest town in the Central Hawke's Bay District on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is located on the banks of the Tukituki River, 7 kilometres south of Waipawa and 50 kilometres southwest of Hastings. H ...

and

Waipawa Waipawa is the second-largest town in Central Hawke's Bay in the east of the North Island of New Zealand. It has a population of At the 2013 census, it had a population of 1,965, a change of 2.2 percent from the 2006 census. The town is locate ...

moved into the

Wairarapa The Wairarapa (; ), a geographical region of New Zealand, lies in the south-eastern corner of the North Island, east of metropolitan Wellington and south-west of the Hawke's Bay Region. It is lightly populated, having several rural service ...

electorate, in exchange for which Tukituki gained the suburbs and towns around

Cape Kidnappers for "''the jawbone of Māui''" * for "''the fish hook of Māui''" , , type = Cape , photo = Cape Kidnappers.jpg , photo_width = , photo_alt = , photo_caption = Looking northeast towards Cape K ...

from the Napier electorate. No boundary adjustments were undertaken in the subsequent 2013/14 redistribution.

History

Labour's

Rick Barker Richard John Barker (born 27 October 1951) is a New Zealand politician. He is a member of the Labour Party, and was a middle-ranking Cabinet minister in the Fifth Labour Government of New Zealand. Biography Early life and career Barker was bo ...

, who had represented Hastings since

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...

was elected as MP for Tukituki, and re-elected twice before a large provincial swing to the National Party in

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

cost Barker his seat. This was the third time in over thirty years that a Hastings electorate had elected a National MP – the other two times being National's landslide victories in

1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...

and

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...

. National's

Craig Foss Craig Raymond Robert Foss (born 4 July 1963) is a New Zealand investment banker and politician. He was elected to the Hawke's Bay Regional Council in October 2019 and was previously the Member of Parliament for from 2005 until 2017. Early year ...

first contested the Tukituki electorate in the , but Barker comfortably held the electorate. Ranked 47th on National's party list, Foss did not enter Parliament. Foss defeated the incumbent in the . He was returned to the 49th Parliament with a greatly increased majority in the 2008 election. His majority increased to nearly 10,000 votes in the . In the , his majority dropped to 6,490 votes. On 14 December 2016, Foss announced that he would quit politics at the 2017 general election. The electorate was won at the election by

, retaining it for the National Party.

Members of Parliament

Key

List MPs

Members of Parliament elected from party lists in elections where that person also unsuccessfully contested the Tukituki electorate. Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at general elections.

Election results

2020 election

2017 election

2014 election

2011 election

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 44,708

2008 election

2005 election

1999 election

Refer to Candidates in the New Zealand general election 1999 by electorate#Tukituki for a list of candidates.

Notes

References

External links

Electorate Profile
''Parliamentary Library'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Tukituki (New Zealand Electorate) New Zealand electorates 1996 establishments in New Zealand