Māori Electorates

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Māori Electorates are constituencies in New Zealand specially created for Māori .

Of the 70 constituencies established since the 2008 parliamentary election and still in existence, 63 are general constituencies, while seven constituencies, which overlap with the general constituencies, are directly assigned to the Māori population. In the 2005 election, however, there were only 62 general constituencies.

The term Electorate refers to constituencies in Australia and New Zealand, whereas in Great Britain it refers to the electorate or eligible voters.

history

Māori Electorates were first introduced in 1867. There were four seats for the representatives of the Māori , who were each elected for five years. However, universal suffrage was only available to men over the age of 21 and the right to seats in parliament was still temporary. In 1868 the first election was held among the Maori population and in 1876 the four Māori seats were guaranteed. Interestingly, the men of the non-Maori population were not granted universal suffrage until 1879. They too had to be over 21 years old. Universal suffrage for women followed in 1893.

The first election under universal male suffrage was held in 1881, although Pākehā and Māori voted on different days.

In 1922, the residents of the Chatham Islands were included in an electorate for the first time and were thus able to vote. It was not until 1951 that Māori were allowed to vote with the Europeans across their different constituencies on a common day. In 1995 the number of Māori Electorates was increased to five and in 2002 to the current number seven.

Māori Electorates

Constituencies listed from north to south:

  1. Te Tai Tokerau - includes the Northland areaand part of Auckland Council such as North Shore City , part of Waitakere City , Whangārei , the Bay of Islands and Dargaville .
  2. Tāmaki Makaurau - includes the Auckland City area and parts of Waitakere City , as well as Manukau City .
  3. Hauraki-Waikato - comprises from the west the area of ​​the southern line from Manukau Harbor to Waiheke Island , Coromandel Peninsula and Waihi Beach in the east and the line Kāwhia - Matamata in the south, including Hamilton and Cambridge .
  4. Waiariki - includes the Bay of Plenty area in the north down to Lake Taupo , Rotorua , Taupo , Tauranga , Whakatāne and Opotiki included.
  5. Te Tai Hauāuru - encompasses the area from Kāwhia in the north down to Porirua and Grenada north and to the west Palmerston North and Lake Taupo . This includes the Taranaki Region , Manawatu-Wanganui and Palmerston North .
  6. Ikaroa-Rāwhiti - covers the area of ​​the entire west coast of the North Island from the East Cape in the north over Gisborne , Hawke's Bay , Masterton and Wairarapa down to the elongated Hutt Valley , which mostly belongs to it.
  7. Te Tai Tonga - covers the entire South Island of New Zealand including all nearby islands, as well as Stewart Island and the Chatham Islands .

Web links

  • Home Page . Election New Zealand,accessed January 14, 2011.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Electorate profiles . New Zealand Parliament , accessed January 14, 2011 .
  2. ^ Electorate . Dict.cc German-English dictionary , accessed on January 14, 2011 (de / en).
  3. a b Electoral timeline . Election New Zealand , archived from the original on February 8, 2013 ; accessed on January 26, 2016 (English, original website no longer available).
  4. ^ The Right to Vote . Election New Zealand , archived from the original on February 8, 2013 ; accessed on January 26, 2016 (English, original website no longer available).
  5. ^ Māori and the Vote . Election New Zealand , archived from the original on February 8, 2013 ; accessed on January 26, 2016 (English, original website no longer available).