Waitemata (New Zealand electorate)

Waitemata was a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, from 1871 to 1946, and then from 1954 to 1978. It was represented by 18 members of parliament.

The Waitemata electorate was created in the 1870 electoral redistribution based on 1867 New Zealand census data and was used in its initial form for the 1871 election.^[1] It was located north of the various urban Auckland electorates and south of the Rodney electorate.^[2] The following settlements were included in its initial area: Cornwallis, Huia, Parau, Laingholm, Titirangi, Waiatarua, Oratia, Piha, Henderson Valley, Swanson, Rānui, Waitākere township, Taupaki, Kumeū, Hobsonville, Whenuapai, Takapuna, and Helensville.^[2]

The First Labour Government was defeated in the 1949 election and the incoming National Government changed the Electoral Act, with the electoral quota once again based on total population as opposed to qualified electors, and the tolerance was increased to 7.5% of the electoral quota. There was no adjustments in the number of electorates between the South and North Islands, but the law changes resulted in boundary adjustments to almost every electorate through the 1952 electoral redistribution; only five electorates were unaltered.^[3] Five electorates were reconstituted (including Waitemata) and one was newly created, and a corresponding six electorates were abolished; all of these in the North Island.^[4] These changes took effect with the 1954 election.^[5]

The electorate existed from 1871 to 1946, and from 1954 to 1978.^[6]

Early members were Thomas Henderson 1871–1874 (resigned),^[7] Gustav von der Heyde 1874–1875 (unseated on petition),^[8] John Sangster Macfarlane 1876–1879 (defeated),^[9] Reader Wood 1879–1881 (retired),^[10] William John Hurst 1881–1886 (died),^[11] Richard Monk 1886–1890 (defeated),^[12] and Jackson Palmer 1890–1893 (defeated).^[13]

The election of Richard Monk, who stood again in 1893, was declared invalid.^[12] From 1894 to 1896 Waitemata was held by future Prime Minister William Massey, until he transferred to Franklin.^[14] Richard Monk held the electorate for the period 1896–1902.^[12] The seat was then held by Ewen Alison from 1902 to 1908,^[15] Leonard Phillips from 1908 to 1911,^[16] and Alexander Harris from 1911 to 1935.^[17]

In 1946 Henry Thorne Morton, who had held the seat from 1943, was defeated for North Shore.^[18]

Members of Parliament

Waitemata was represented by 18 Members of Parliament.^[6]

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Independent Independent Liberal Conservative Reform Labour National

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Election	Winner
1871 election		Thomas Henderson
1st 1874 by-election		Gustav von der Heyde
2nd 1874 by-election		Gustav von der Heyde
1876 election		John Macfarlane
1879 election		Reader Wood
1881 election		William Hurst
1884 election		William Hurst
1886 by-election		Richard Monk
1887 election		Richard Monk
1890 election		Jackson Palmer
1893 election		Richard Monk
1894 by-election		William Massey
1896 election		Richard Monk
1899 election		Richard Monk
1902 election		Ewen Alison
1905 election		Ewen Alison
1908 election		Leonard Phillips
1908 election		Leonard Phillips
1911 election		Alexander Harris
1914 election
1919 election
1922 election
1925 election
1925 election
1928 election
1931 election
1935 election		Jack Lyon
1938 election		Jack Lyon
1941 by-election		Mary Dreaver
1943 election		Henry Morton
(electorate abolished 1946–1954, see North Shore)
1954 election		Norman King
1957 election
1960 election
1963 election
1966 election
1969 election		Frank Gill
1972 election		Michael Bassett
1975 election		Dail Jones
(electorate abolished 1978, see Helensville)

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