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Buller (New Zealand electorate)
Former electorate in West Coast, New Zealand From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Buller is a former New Zealand parliamentary electorate, from 1871 to 1972. It was represented by eleven Members of Parliament.
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The 1870 electoral redistribution was undertaken by a parliamentary select committee based on population data from the 1867 New Zealand census. Eight sub-committees were formed, with two members each making decisions for their own province; thus members set their own electorate boundaries. The number of electorates was increased from 61 to 72, and Buller was one of the new electorates.[1] The Buller electorate was created from areas that previously belonged to the Waimea and Westland electorates.[2] Settlements located in the initial electorate area were Westport, Inangahua Junction, and Reefton.[3] For the 1879 election, polling booths were in Westport, Charleston, Brighton, Addison's, Waimangaroa, Inangahua Junction, Lyell, and Karamea.[4]
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The electorate's first representative was Eugene O'Conor, who was successful in the 1871 election, but he was defeated at the next election in 1876 by Joseph Henry.[5] Henry in turn was defeated by James Bickerton Fisher[6] at the 1879 election.[7] Fisher retired at the end of the parliamentary term in 1881.[8]
Fisher was succeeded by John Munro, who won the 1881 election.[9] Munro was defeated at the next election in 1884 by Eugene O'Conor, who thus started his second period of representation.[10] O'Conor, who joined the Liberal Party, was beaten in 1893 election by Roderick McKenzie.[11] In the 1896 election, McKenzie successfully stood in the Motueka electorate.[12]
Patrick O'Regan won the 1896 election in the Buller electorate.[13] At the 1899 election, he was defeated by James Colvin, who held the electorate until his death in 1919.[14]
From 1919 the Buller electorate was represented by two radical trade unionists from the coal mines of the West Coast, Harry Holland and Paddy Webb. Harry Holland and then Jerry Skinner died in office.
In 1972, the electorate was split into the West Coast and Tasman electorates.
Members of Parliament
The Buller electorate was represented by eleven MPs:
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Independent Liberal Independent Liberal Labour
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Election results
1969 election
1966 election
1963 election
1962 by-election
1960 election
1957 election
1954 election
1951 election
1949 election
1946 election
1933 by-election
1931 election
1928 election
1925 election
1922 election
1919 election
1914 election
1899 election
1893 election
1879 election
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