- Eastern Māori
Eastern Māori was one of the four former
New Zealand Parliamentary Māori electorates, from 1868 to 1996.Population Centres
The electorate includes the following population centres:
* (To be completed)Tribal Areas
The electorate includes the following tribal areas:
History
Eastern Māori 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 Southern Māori were extended to include much of the East Coast of the North Island up to Napier and Wairoa in Hawkes Bay.
James Carroll held the seat from 1887 to 1893, but in 1893 he changed to the Gisborne seat and was replaced byWi Pere who Carroll had defeated in 1887.With
MMP Eastern Māori was replaced by theTe Tai Rawhiti seat in 1996.Peter Tapsell who had represented Eastern Māori since 1981 was defeated when he stood for the new seat.Election results
References
*"New Zealand Parliamentary Record 1840-1984" by J. O. Wilson (1985, 4th edition, Government Printer, Wellington)
ee also
*
Northern Māori
*Southern Māori
*Western Māori External links
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