Eastern Maori

Eastern Maori was one of the four original New Zealand parliamentary Māori electorates founded in 1867. It was replaced by the Te Tai Rawhiti electorate in 1996.

Population centres

The electorate included the population centres of Kawerau, Opotiki, Rotorua and Whakatane.

Tribal areas

The electorate included the tribal areas of Ngāti Awa, Te Arawa, Ngāi Tai, and Te Whakatōhea.

History

Eastern Maori included Rotorua and the Bay of Plenty, and the Poverty Bay area down to Gisborne. Originally the electorate extended down the East Coast and included the Wairarapa, but in 1954 the boundaries of the Southern Maori electorate were extended to include much of the East Coast of the North Island up to Napier and Wairoa in Hawke's Bay.

The first Member of Parliament for Eastern Maori was Tareha Te Moananui, elected in 1868; he was the first Māori MP to speak in Parliament, and he retired in 1870.

James Carroll represented the electorate from 1887 to 1893, but in 1893 he changed to the Waiapu electorate and was replaced by Wi Pere who Carroll had defeated in 1887.

In the 1949 election, the incumbent, Tiaki Omana of the Labour Party, was unsuccessfully challenged by National's Turi Carroll.^[1]

In the 1963 election, Puti Tipene Watene was elected. He was a Mormon and was the first non-Ratana to win a Maori seat since 1938.

With MMP Eastern Maori was replaced by the Te Tai Rawhiti electorate in 1996. Peter Tapsell, who had represented Eastern Maori since 1981 was defeated when he stood in the new electorate.

Members of Parliament

The Eastern Maori electorate was represented by ten Members of Parliament:^[2]

Key

Independent Liberal United National Labour

Election	Winner
1868 Māori election		Tareha Te Moananui
1871 election		Karaitiana Takamoana
1876 election
1879 by-election		Henare Tomoana
1879 election
1881 election
1884 election		Wi Pere
1887 election		James Carroll
1890 election
1893 election		Wi Pere (2nd period)
1896 election
1899 election
1902 election
1905 election		Apirana Ngata
1908 election
1911 election
1914 election
1919 election
1922 election
1925 election
1928 election
1931 election
1935 election

1938 election
1943 election		Tiaki Omana
1946 election
1949 election
1951 election
1954 election
1957 election
1960 election
1963 election		Puti Tipene Watene
1966 election
1967 by-election		Paraone Reweti
1969 election
1972 election
1975 election
1978 election
1981 election		Peter Tapsell
1984 election
1987 election
1990 election
1993 election

Election results

Note that the affiliation of many early candidates is not known.

1967 by-election

Southern Maori by-election, 1967
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Paraone Reweti	4,460	49.49
	National	Arnold Reedy	2,416	26.81
	Social Credit	C. M. Paul	1,219	13.53
	Independent Maori	D. M. Bennett	671	7.45
		O. K. Te Huata	246	2.73
Majority			2,044	22.68
Turnout			9,012	60.70

1931 election

General election, 1931: Eastern Maori^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United	Apirana Ngata	5,105	71.91	+1.70
	Ratana	Pita Moko	1,994	28.09	+1.90
Majority			3,111	43.82
Turnout			7,099

1928 election

General election, 1928: Eastern Maori^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United	Apirana Ngata	4,950	70.21
	Ratana	Pita Moko	1,846	26.18
	Labour	Robert Panapa Tutaki	254	3.60
Majority			3,104	44.03
Turnout			7,050

1899 election

General election, 1899: Eastern Maori^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Wi Pere	2,294	40.52	-20.70
		Mohi Te Atahikoia	1,387	24.50
		Hurinui Apanui	1,316	23.25
		Kereru Numia	331	5.85
		Tare Mete	207	3.66	-9.86
		Tamati Haweti	126	2.23
Majority			907	16.02
Turnout			5,661

1896 election

General election, 1896: Eastern Maori^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Wi Pere	2,549	61.22
		Tamati Tautuhi	805	19.33
		Tare Mete	563	13.52
		Maika Taruhe	182	4.37
		Eriata Nopera	65	1.56
Majority			1,744	41.88
Turnout			4,164

Notes

↑ Rorke, Jinty. "Turi Carroll". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved December 2011.
↑ Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
↑ The General Election, 1931. Government Printer. 1932. p. 6. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
↑ Skinner 1929, p. 7.
↑ "The General Election, 1899". Wellington: Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives. 19 June 1900. p. 3. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
↑ "Untitled". Poverty Bay Herald XXIV (7816). 4 January 1897. p. 2. Retrieved 16 January 2014.

References

Skinner, W. A. G. (1929). The General Election, 1928. Government Printer. Retrieved 25 April 2015.

External links

Text of Eastern Māori election poll petition, 1876 (in Māori)

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