Westland North was a parliamentary
electorate
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on the
West Coast of New Zealand from 1868 to 1870.
History
The Westland Representation Act 1867 introduced changes to the
Waimea and
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electorates. Their areas were reassigned and four electorates formed. Waimea lost some area, but continued to exist. Westland was abolished in 1867. A new electorate (
Westland Boroughs
Westland Boroughs was a parliamentary electorate in the West Coast of New Zealand from 1866 to 1870.
Population centres
Westland Boroughs was made up of the areas covered by the boroughs of Greymouth and Hokitika. The enabling legislation allow ...
) was established, and the Act stipulated that the sitting member (
William Sefton Moorhouse
William Sefton Moorhouse ( 1825 – 15 September 1881) was a British-born New Zealand politician. He was the second Superintendent of Canterbury Province.
Early life
Moorhouse was born in Yorkshire, England, and baptised on 18 December 1825; th ...
) was transferred to it. Other new electorates, for which by-elections were to be held, were Westland North and
Westland South.
The southern boundary of Westland North was the southern boundary of
Nelson Province: the course of the
Grey River near the coast and an arbitrary straight line in the country's interior (reflecting that the land had been unexplored at the time the boundary was defined).
Timothy Gallagher was the first representative, elected in
1868 supplementary election. He resigned in 1870 owing to urgent and private business affairs.
won the resulting
by-election
A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, a bye-election in Ireland, a bypoll in India, or a Zimni election (Urdu: ضمنی انتخاب, supplementary election) in Pakistan, is an election used to f ...
unopposed. Kynnersley retired at the end of the parliamentary term, and the electorate was abolished.
At the end of the
4th Parliament, the 1870 electoral redistribution disestablished all special interest electorates (e.g. the goldfields electorates) and Westland North was divided amongst two new and one existing electorate: , , and an enlarged .
Members of Parliament
Westland North was represented by two Members of Parliament:
Election results
1868 supplementary election
Notes
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