Tāmaki Makaurau

Tāmaki Makaurau is a New Zealand Parliamentary Māori electorate returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. From 1999 to 2002, the seat was called Hauraki.

The current MP for Tāmaki Makaurau is Dr Pita Sharples of the Māori Party. He has held this position since 2005.

Tāmaki Makaurau derives its name from the Māori name for Auckland; it is often translated as "Tāmaki of a thousand lovers" (Makau, often translated as lovers, also translates as favourite and spouse, implying a highly sought target of admiration), a reference to the fertile volcanic soil of Auckland and the positioning between two resource-rich coasts. In its current boundaries, the electorate contains the Western Beaches of Waitakere City, all of West Auckland south of Te Atatu, the entire Auckland Isthmus, and the South Auckland suburbs of Mangere, Otara, Pakuranga and Manurewa. It does not contain Great Barrier or Rangitoto islands, as there is in Te Tai Tokerau; both Papakura and Waiheke Island are in Hauraki-Waikato.

The first Māori seat based exclusively around Auckland was created at the time of the first review of MMP boundaries, ahead of the 1999 election. The final seat was named Hauraki, after both the gulf at Auckland's eastern side, and Hauraki, a pan-tribal union based around an area including the Coromandel Peninsula, Thames Valley and the Western Bay of Plenty. Hauraki's boundary stretched out of Auckland, down through the eastern Waikato into include Morrinsville and the Coromandel; population growth saw the southern section lanced three years later, and the current boundaries and name take hold. The name 'Hauraki' in an historical context refers to an electorate in use at various times between 1928 and 1996; in a modern sense, the Hauraki 'block' that led to the name of the first seat has been revived and applied to the seat of Hauraki-Waikato, the successor to the seat of Tainui.

The main iwi of Tāmaki Makaurau are Ngāti Whātua, Kawerau a Maki, Tainui, Ngāti Paoa and Ngāti Rehua, though a pan-Māori organisation called Ngāti Akarana exists for urbanised Māori with no knowledge of their actual iwi; and, through a population trend whereby many rural Māori moved to the cities, the largest iwi affiliation in the seat are Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou, Waikato and Ngāti Maniapoto, all iwi local to other areas of New Zealand.

At its first (and only) contest, Hauraki was won by a high-profile community worker, John Tamihere of the Labour Party. Tamihere spent his six-year parliamentary career dogged by controversy that often overshadowed his work as a minister and, at the 2005 election came ten percent behind Māori Party co-leader Pita Sharples. Because Tamihere had chosen not to seek a list placing, his parliamentary career was terminated.

Members of Parliament for Hauraki

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

Name	Party	Elected	Left Office	Reason
John Tamihere	bgcolor=Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color| Labour	1999	2002	seat abolished

note: This table refers only to the Māori seat named Hauraki; for details on the general electorate see Hauraki (New Zealand electorate).

Members of Parliament for Tāmaki Makaurau

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

Name	Party	Elected	Left Office	Reason
John Tamihere	bgcolor=Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color| Labour	2002	2005	defeated
Pita Sharples	bgcolor=Template:Māori Party/meta/color| Māori Party	2005, 2008	incumbent

List MPs from Tāmaki Makaurau

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

Name	Party	First Elected	Left Office	Contested Tāmaki Makaurau
Metiria Turei	bgcolor=Template:Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand/meta/color| Green	2002	Current MP	2002

Election results

2011 election

General Election 2011: Tāmaki Makaurau
Notes:		Blue 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, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	Māori Party	Y Pita Sharples		7,120	40.40	-25.58	2,694	14.45	-14.16
	Labour	Shane Jones		6,184	35.09	+7.75	7,739	41.50	-8.23
	Mana	Kereama Pene		2,827	16.04	+16.04	2,551	13.68	+13.68
	Green	Mikaere Curtis		1,491	8.46	+3.69	1,810	9.71	+5.67
	NZ First						1,948	10.45	+4.56
	National						1,569	8.41	+1.00
	Legalise Cannabis						197	1.06	-0.08
	Conservative Party of New Zealand						94	0.50	+0.50
	ACT						28	0.15	-0.53
	United Future						10	0.05	-0.08
	Libertarianz						4	0.02	+0.01
	Alliance						2	0.01	-0.01
	Democrats						2	0.01	+0.01
Informal votes				717			327
Total valid votes				17,622			18,648
	Māori Party hold		Majority	936	5.31	-33.33

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 35,347

2008 election

General Election 2008: Tāmaki Makaurau
Notes:		Blue 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, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	Māori Party	Y Pita Sharples		12,876	65.98	+13.63	5,801	28.61	+1.13
	Labour	Louisa Wall		5,336	27.34	-13.90	10,084	49.73	-5.41
	Green	Mikaere Curtis		931	4.77		819	4.04	-2.55
	Kiwi	Vapi Kupenga		129	0.66		28	0.14
	Independent	Kane Te Waaka		122	0.63
	Independent	Marama Nathan		120	0.61
	National						1,504	7.42	+3.39
	NZ First						1,193	5.88	+0.56
	Family Party						284	1.40
	Legalise Cannabis						230	1.13	+0.42
	ACT						137	0.68	+0.47
	Bill and Ben						71	0.35
	Progressive						38	0.19	-0.15
	Pacific						36	0.18
	United Future New Zealand						27	0.13	-0.31
	RAM						10	0.05
	Workers Party						10	0.05
	Alliance						5	0.02	-0.05
	Libertarianz						2	0.01	-0.01
	Democrats						0	0.00	-0.01
	RONZ						0	0.00	-0.01
Informal votes				480			247
Total valid votes				19,514			20,279
Turnout				20,823	58.48	-3.57
	Māori Party hold		Majority	7,540	38.64	+27.53

2005 election

General election 2005: Tamaki Makaurau
Notes:		Blue 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, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	Māori Party	Pita Sharples		10,024	52.35		5457	27.48
	Labour	N John Tamihere		7,897	41.24	-32.11	10,951	55.14
	Destiny	Tauwehi Hemahema-Tāmati		675	3.53		520	2.62
	NZ First						1,057	5.32
	National						801	4.03
	Green						652	3.28
	Legalise Cannabis						141	0.71
	United Future New Zealand						87	0.44
	Progressive						67	0.34
	ACT						42	0.21
	Family Rights						20	0.10
	Direct Democracy						18	0.09
	Christian Heritage						14	0.07
	Alliance						13	0.07
	99 MP						9	0.05
	One NZ						5	0.03
	Libertarianz						3	0.02
	Democrats						1	0.01
	RONZ						1	0.01
Informal votes				363			199
Total valid votes				19,147			19,859
Turnout				20,440	62.05	+7.83
	Māori Party gain from Labour		Majority	2127	11.11

2002 election

General Election 2002: Tamaki Makaurau
Notes:		Blue 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, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Tamihere		11,445	73.35		9,052	55.97
	Green	Metiria Turei		2,001	12.82		1,659	10.26
	National	George Rongokino Ngatai		785	5.03		516	3.19
	Alliance	Janice Smith		550	3.52		470	2.91
	Christian Heritage	Tuhimareikura Vaha'akolo		472	3.02		240	1.48
	Progressive	Sue Wharewhaka-Topia Watts		351	2.25		228	1.41
	NZ First						2,430	15.03
	Mana Māori						464	2.87
	Legalise Cannabis						423	2.62
	United Future New Zealand						411	2.54
	ACT						223	1.38
	ORNZ						51	0.32
	One NZ						4	0.02
	NMP						2	0.01
Informal votes				380			122
Total valid votes				15,604			16,173
Turnout				16,688	54.22
	Labour win new seat		Majority	9,444	60.52

External links

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