Te Tai Hauāuru

Te Tai Hauāuru is a New Zealand Parliamentary Māori electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The current MP for Te Tai Hauāuru is Tariana Turia of the Māori Party. She has held this position since 2002.

Geographic coverage

Te Kuiti statue

Tawa Main street

Te Tai Hauāuru covers the western North Island, starting in the South Waikato before heading south through the King Country towns of Te Kuiti and Taumarunui to include all of the Taranaki region and all towns in the Manawatu-Wanganui region west of the Manawatu Gorge. Its southern terminus is in Wellington at Tawa. The main population centres are Tokoroa, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Palmerston North and Porirua. It is also home of the politically influential Ratana movement.

History

The seat includes the Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Maru, Te Āti Awa, Taranaki, Ngāti Ruahine, Ngāti Ruanui, Ngā Rauru, Te Āti Haunui a Pāpārangi, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Hauiti, Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga, Ngāti Kauwhata, Rangitāne, Muaupoko, Ngāti Toa, Maniapoto and Ngāti Huia tribal areas (rohe).

Te Tai Hauāuru was first used at the 1996 election and contained all area from South Auckland to just south of Te Kuiti. It was the growth of the Māori population leading to the creation first of Tāmaki Makaurau in 1999 and Tainui in 2002 that has pulled Ta Tai Hauāuru so far south that the only remaining part of the 1996 seat is its name.

Te Tai Hauāuru was won by New Zealand First candidate Tukuroirangi Morgan in its first contest, in what would be a clean sweep by New Zealand First of the five Māori seats that year. Discontent with New Zealand First's behaviour in government lead to a reconciliation between Māori voters and the Labour Party, albeit briefly; the introduction of the Seabed and Foreshore bill to Parliament by the ruling Labour Party lead to a schism between the party and a significant section of its Māori voter base, including the MP for Te Tai Hauāuru, Tariana Turia. Turia resigned her seat to recontest the seat in a byelection as the leader of the new Māori Party. She won 92.7 percent of the vote in a contest that Labour refused to participate in. In 2005, Turia was re-elected with nearly double the votes of her Labour rival, Errol Mason. In common with most of the Māori seats, Labour took a majority of the party vote. The results in 2008 were similar.

Members of Parliament

Name	Party	Elected	Left Office	Reason
Tukuroirangi Morgan	NZ First	1996	1999	defeated
Nanaia Mahuta	Labour	1999	2002	contested Tainui instead
Tariana Turia	Labour	2002	May, 2004	resigned to recontest the seat as leader of the Māori Party
Tariana Turia	Māori Party	2004 byelection, 2005, 2008	incumbent

List MPs

Members of Parliament elected from party lists in elections where that person also unsuccessfully contested the Te Tai Hauāuru electorate. Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at general elections.

Name	Party	First Elected	Left Office	Contested Te Tai Hauāuru
Nanaia Mahuta	Labour	1996	current MP	1996, 1999 (won)

Election results

2011 election

General Election 2011: Te Tai Hauāuru
Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party Votes	%	±%
	Māori	Y Tariana Turia		8,433	48.30	-22.28	3,829	21.05	-9.71
	Labour	Soraya Waiata Peke-Mason		5,212	29.85	+0.43	7,645	42.03	-8.62
	Green	Jack Tautokai McDonald		2,007	11.49	+11.49	2,031	11.17	+7.64
	Mana	Frederick Timutimu		1,513	8.67	+8.67	1,499	8.24	+8.24
	Nga Iwi	Jennifer Waitai-Rapana		178	1.02	+1.02
	Sovereignty Party	Robert Piriniha Wilson		118	0.68	+0.68
	NZ First						1,445	7.94	+2.73
	National						1,421	7.81	+2.73
	Legalise Cannabis						195	1.07	-0.15
	Conservative						67	0.37	+0.37
	United Future						25	0.14	+0.02
	ACT						23	0.13	-0.27
	Democrats						4	0.02	-0.003
	Libertarianz						3	0.02	+0.01
	Alliance						1	0.01	-0.01
Informal votes				754			452
Total Valid votes				17,461			18,188
	Māori hold		Majority	3,221	18.45	-22.71

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 32,617

2008 election

General Election 2008: Te Tai Hauāuru
Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party Votes	%	±%
	Māori	Y Tariana Turia		13,406	70.58		6,076	30.76
	Labour	Errol Mason		5,589	29.42		10,005	50.66
	National						1,298	6.57
	NZ First						1,029	5.21
	Green						697	3.53
	Legalise Cannabis						242	1.23
	Bill and Ben						120	0.61
	Family Party						95	0.48
	ACT						79	0.40
	Progressive						36	0.18
	United Future						24	0.12
	Kiwi						22	0.11
	Pacific						9	0.05
	Workers Party						6	0.03
	Democrats						5	0.03
	RONZ						4	0.02
	Alliance						3	0.02
	Libertarianz						1	0.01
	RAM						0	0.00
Informal votes				676			359
Total Valid votes				18,995			19,751
	Māori hold		Majority	7,817	41.15

2005 election

General election 2005: Te Tai Hauāuru
Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party Votes	%	±%
	Māori	Y Tariana Turia		10,922	62.98		5,739	31.68
	Labour	Errol Mason		5809	33.49		9619	53.10
	Destiny	Hemi Te Wano		612	3.53		322	1.78
	NZ First						872	4.81
	National						648	3.58
	Green						572	3.16
	Legalise Cannabis						134	0.74
	United Future						100	0.55
	Progressive						38	0.21
	ACT						27	0.15
	Family Rights						12	0.07
	Christian Heritage						8	0.04
	99 MP						7	0.04
	Direct Democracy						7	0.04
	Alliance						6	0.03
	Libertarianz						3	0.02
	One NZ						1	0.01
	Democrats						0	0.00
	RONZ						0	0.00
Informal votes				586			232
Total Valid votes				17,343			18,115
	Māori hold		Majority	5113	29.48

2004 by-election

Te Tai Hauauru by-election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Māori	Tariana Turia	7,256	92.74
	Legalise Cannabis	Dun Mihaka	197	2.52
	Independent	Tahu Nepia	183	2.24
	Independent	Peter Wakeman	80	1.02
	Independent	David Bolton	70	0.89
	Independent	Rusty Kane	38	0.49
Majority			7,059	24.9
Turnout			7,861a	27.85
	Māori gain from Labour		Swing

^a Includes 37 informal votes but does not include any disallowed special votes.

2002 election

General election 2002: Te Tai Hauauru
Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Tariana Turia		10,002	71.36		8,113	56.08
	Mana Māori	Ken Mair		1,345	9.60		590	4.08
	National	Greg White		991	7.07		596	4.12
	United Future	James Hippolite		705	5.03		377	2.61
	Alliance	Manuel Kamaka		594	4.24		290	2.00
	Christian Heritage	Jeannette Shramka		380	2.71		245	1.69
	NZ First						1832	12.66
	Green						1602	11.07
	Legalise Cannabis						454	3.14
	Progressive						165	1.14
	ACT						94	0.65
	ORNZ						92	0.64
	One NZ						13	0.09
	NMP						4	0.03
Informal votes				421			136
Total Valid votes				14,017			14,467
	Labour hold		Majority	8657	61.76

1999 election

General election 1999: Te Tai Hauāuru
Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Nanaia Mahuta		8,162	52.15		8,755	55.45
	NZ First	Lorraine Anderson		1,929	12.33		1,976	12.51
	Mauri Pacific	NTuku Morgan		1,635	10.45		766	4.85
	Mana Māori	Ken Mair		1,407	8.99		966	6.12
	Alliance	Joe Puketapu		1068	6.82		983	6.23
	National	Dennis Patuwairua		555	3.55		698	4.42
	Piri Wiri Tua	Dalvanius Prime		224	1.43
	Future NZ	Lee Edmonds		177	1.13		127	0.80
	Christian Heritage	Jeannette Shramka		165	1.05		138	0.87
	Freedom Movement	Lei Graham		138	0.88		52	0.33
	Mana Wahine	Antoine Brown		117	0.75
	People's Choice	Doug Wilson		74	0.47		11	0.07
	Green						654	4.14
	Legalise Cannabis						495	3.14
	ACT						106	0.67
	Animals First						16	0.10
	United NZ						9	0.06
	McGillicuddy Serious						7	0.04
	Natural Law						7	0.04
	One NZ						7	0.04
	NMP						5	0.03
	Republican						2	0.01
	South Island						1	0.01
Informal votes				561			423
Total Valid votes				15,651			15,789
	Labour gain from NZ First		Majority	6233	39.82

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