Wairarapa (New Zealand electorate)

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Wairarapa is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate.

It is currently held by John Hayes MP^[1].

Contents 1 Population Centres 2 History 3 Members of Parliament for Wairarapa 3.1 List MPs from Wairarapa 4 Election results 4.1 2008 election 4.2 2005 election 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Population Centres

This section requires expansion.

The electorate includes the following population centres:

• (To be completed)

[edit] History

The electorate was created in 1859, though preceded by the Wairarapa and Hawkes Bay electorate from 1853 to 1860. It was represented by Charles Rooking Carter from 1859 to 1865, John Chapman Andrew from 1871 to 1875, and by George Beetham from 1877 to 1881.

From 1881 to 1887 Wairarapa was replaced by two electorates; Wairarapa North and Wairarapa South. From 1887, they were replaced by the Masterton and Wairarapa electorates.

Between 1899 and 1919 the Wairarapa electorate swung between Walter Clarke Buchanan the Conservative candidate and John Hornsby the Liberal candidate, changing hands in 1902, 1905, 1908 and 1914. Buchanan's support was in the rural areas, and Hornsby's was in the small towns.

From 1919 to 1928 the electorate was represented by Alexander McLeod. In 1928 he was defeated by Thomas William McDonald the United (Liberal) candidate, but in 1931 McLeod won the seat back.

[edit] Members of Parliament for Wairarapa

Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at a general election.

Name	Party	Elected	Left Office	Reason
Jack Williams	Labour	1969, 1972	1975	defeated
Ben Couch	National	1975, 1978, 1981	1984	defeated
Reg Boorman	Labour	1984	1987	defeated
Wyatt Creech	National	1987, 1990, 1993, 1996	1999	list-only candidate in 1999
Georgina Beyer	Labour	1999, 2002	2005	list-only candidate in 2005
John Hayes	National	2005, 2008	incumbent

• In the 1987 election, Reg Boorman won by one vote, but Creech later challenged that result on the grounds that Boorman had violated new laws about election spending. Creech also challenged more than 200 votes (on various grounds). The Electoral Court approved Creech's petition, and Creech won the seat in 1988 with a majority of 34 votes (9994 to 9960).

[edit] List MPs from Wairarapa

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

Name	Party	First Elected	Left Office	Contested Wairarapa
Edwin Perry	New Zealand First	2002	2005	2002, 2005

[edit] Election results

[edit] 2008 election

General Election 2008: Wairarapa[2]
Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party Votes	%	±%
	National	Y John Hayes		18,524	51.02	-	17,860	48.66
	Labour	Denise MacKenzie		11,766	32.41	-	11,464	31.23
	NZ First	Edwin J Perry		2,646	7.29	-	2,040	5.56
	Green	Michael Woodcock		1,878	5.17	-	2,109	5.75
	ACT	Shane Atkinson		721	1.99	-	1,660	4.52
	Libertarianz	Richard McGrath		453	1.25	-	61	0.17
	United Future	Graeme Reeves		219	0.60	-	248	0.68
	Alliance	Amy Tubman		101	0.28	-	47	0.13
	Bill and Ben	-					281	0.77	-
	Māori	-					266	0.72	-
	Progressive	-					251	0.68	-
	Kiwi	-					173	0.47	-
	Legalise Cannabis	-					122	0.33	-
	Family Party	-					80	0.22	-
	Workers Party	-					14	0.04	-
	Pacific	-					12	0.03	-
	NZ Democrats	-					9	0.02	-
	RAM	-					5	0.01	-
	RONZ	-					2	0.01	-
Informal votes				298			131
Total Valid votes				36,308			36,704
	National hold		Majority	6,758

[edit] 2005 election

General election 2005: Wairarapa[3]
Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party Votes	%	±%
	National	John Hayes		13,681	42.71		14,599	45.12
	Labour	Denise MacKenzie		10,929	34.12		11,669	36.06
	NZ First	Edwin Perry		5308	16.57		2889	8.93
	Green	Claire Bleakley		1141	3.56		1478	4.57
	United Future	Graeme Reeves		364	1.14		651	2.01
	ACT	Graeme Tulloch		314	0.98		370	1.14
	Māori	Cissie Walker		293	0.91		165	0.51
	Progressive	-					261	0.81
	Destiny	-					82	0.25
	Legalise Cannabis	-					76	0.23
	Christian Heritage	-					40	0.12
	Alliance	-					29	0.09
	Libertarianz	-					13	0.04
	NZ Democrats	-					8	0.02
	Family Rights	-					6	0.02
	One NZ	-					6	0.02
	RONZ	-					6	0.02
	99 MP	-					5	0.02
	Direct Democracy	-					4	0.01
Informal votes				243			124
Total Valid votes				32,030			32,357
	National gain from Labour		Majority	2752	8.59

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Electorate Profile Parliamentary Library

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