East Cape is a former 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
The prince-electors (german: Kurfürst pl. , cz, Kurfiřt, ...
, from 1978 to 1993.
Population centres
The 1977 electoral redistribution was the most overtly political since the Representation Commission had been established through an amendment to the ''Representation Act'' in 1886, initiated by
Muldoon's
National Government. As part of the
1976 census, a large number of people failed to fill out an electoral re-registration card, and census staff had not been given the authority to insist on the card being completed. This had little practical effect for people on the general roll, but it transferred
Māori
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to the general roll if the card was not handed in. Together with a northward shift of New Zealand's population, this resulted in five new electorates having to be created in the upper part of the
North Island. The electoral redistribution was very disruptive, and 22 electorates were abolished, while 27 electorates were newly created (including East Cape) or re-established. These changes came into effect for the .
The East Cape electorate was made up of areas that previously belonged to (which moved south) and (which was abolished). Settlements in the original electorate included
Whakatane,
Opotiki,
Taneatua,
Te Kaha,
Tokomaru Bay,
Tolaga Bay
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The region around the bay is rugged and remote, and for m ...
, and
Matawai. The electorate stopped just short of the city of
Gisborne, but included the suburb of
Kaiti
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.
Subsequent boundary changes through the 1983 electoral redistribution drew the electorate further from Gisborne and included
Kawerau
Kawerau is a town in the Bay of Plenty region of the North Island of New Zealand. It is situated 100 km south-east of Tauranga and 58 km east of Rotorua. It is the seat of the Kawerau District Council, and the only town in Kawerau Distri ...
and
Murupara
Murupara is a town located in the Whakatāne District and Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand's North Island. The town is situated in an isolated part of the region between the Kaingaroa Forest and Te Urewera protected area, on the banks of th ...
.
In
1993
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, the East Cape electorate was abolished and most of its area was included in the
Eastern Bay of Plenty electorate, with the portion from Hicks Bay to the south of Tokomaru Bay included in the electorate.
History
The East Cape electorate was first won by
Duncan MacIntyre of the National Party in 1978, who had previously been the representative for the Bay of Plenty electorate (1975–78). When he retired in , the seat was won by Labour's
Anne Fraser with a majority of around 800 votes. She held the seat at the subsequent by less than 240 votes, and in 1989, her name officially reverted to her maiden name Anne Collins after she had separated from her husband.
Tony Ryall
Anthony Boyd Williams Ryall (born 19 November 1964) is a former New Zealand politician. He represented the National Party in the New Zealand Parliament from 1990 to 2014. Between 2008 and 2014 he served as a cabinet minister, holding the post ...
from the National Party won the seat in the 1990 general election landslide to the National Party.
Members of Parliament
Key
Notes
References
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Historical electorates of New Zealand
Bay of Plenty Region
1978 establishments in New Zealand
1993 disestablishments in New Zealand