Whangaparāoa is an electorate in the

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. It was first created for the

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and is represented by Mark Mitchell of the National Party; Mitchell had previously been the representative for the now abolished Rodney electorate.

Population centres

The electorate is located on the northern fringe of the

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metropolitan area, in the former

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. It is centred on the

Whangaparaoa Peninsula The Whangaparaoa Peninsula is a suburban area about 25 km north of Auckland, New Zealand. It had 30,672 residents in 2013, many of them in the eponymous town of Whangaparaoa on its southern side. It is part of the Hibiscus Coast. ...

, and more broadly the

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. It also extends south to include

Dairy Flat Dairy Flat is a northern rural district located 8 km south of Orewa in the North Island of New Zealand and 28 km north of central Auckland. Until the early 1990s most of the district was in dairy farms of 40 to 60 hectares (100 to 150 a ...

, Coatesville, Paremoremo and some of the suburb of Albany, reaching the northern coast of the

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History

Whangaparāoa was created in the 2019/20 electoral redistribution. Rapid population growth in the area necessitated the splitting of the former electorate, with the northern section around Warkworth being incorporated into the new

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electorate, and the rest of the electorate becoming Whangaparāoa. A section around Coatesville and

was added from the former electorate of to bring the new electorate into quota tolerance. The electorate is reasonably safe for National, with the final MP for Rodney Mark Mitchell transferring to the seat upon its creation.

Members of Parliament

As of no candidates who have contested the Whangaparāoa electorate have been returned as list MPs.

Election results

2020 election

References

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