Te Tai Tokerau

Te Tai Tokerau is a New Zealand Parliamentary Māori electorate. Since 2005, it has been held by Māori Party MP Hone Harawira. [ [http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/MPP/MPs/MPs/3/7/4/48MP126921-Harawira-Hone.htm New Zealand Parliament - Hone Harawira MP] ] .

Te Tai Tokerau is the northernmost Māori seat, and covers an area between Cape Reinga in the Far North of the North Island to a boundary cutting through West Auckland. The major population centres are Whangarei, the Bay of Islands and north and west Auckland. The electorate contains all of the Ngā Puhi, Te Aupōuri, Ngāti Kuri, Te Rarawa and Ngāti Kahu tribal areas, and part of Ngāti Whātua's territory ("rohe").

History

Te Tai Tokerau's boundaries are similar those of the pre-MMP Northern Māori seat. Te Tai Tokerau was created ahead of the first MMP election in 1996.

Northern Māori had been held by the Labour Party since the 1938 election, when longstanding Reform MP Taurekareka Henare was beaten by Labour's Paraire Karaka Paikea. In 1993, after 55 years of his party holding the seat, Labour MP Bruce Gregory was beaten by Henare's great grandson, Tau Henare, standing for New Zealand First, ending Labour's unbroken hold on the four Māori seats. Henare went on to win Te Tai Tokerau after the switch to MMP, and New Zealand First won all five of the newly-drawn Māori seats.

After a tumultuous parliamentary term which saw all but one of the five New Zealand First Māori MPs defect to other parties, (including Henare himself, who went on to found Mauri Pacific), Labour won all six Māori seats contested at the 1999 election. In Te Tai Tokerau, Tau Henare was beaten into third place behind behind the New Zealand First candidate and Dover Samuels, who Henare had beaten three years previous.

However, Labour's losing the five Māori seats in 1996 showed that the Māori vote was contestable for the first time in five decades, as the new electoral system coupled with the rise of small parties meant that non-Labour candidacy in these seats was more feasible than under First Past the Post.

The New Zealand foreshore and seabed controversy of 2004-05 proved to be the catalyst for the second challenge to Labour party domination of the Māori seats, this time from the Māori Party. At the 2005 election, Samuels and three other Labour Māori MPs lost their seats to Māori Party challengers. In Te Tai Tokerau, the winner was Hone Harawira.

Members of Parliament for Te Tai Tokerau

List MPs from Te Tai Tokerau

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

Election results

MMP election box candidate win
party = Māori Party
candidate = Hone Harawira
votes = 9965
percentage = 52.41
change = +52.41
party votes = 6151
party percent = 31.00
party change = +31.00MMP election box incumbent lose list
party = New Zealand Labour Party
candidate = Dover Samuels
votes = 6352
percentage = 33.41
change = -16.99
party votes = 9788
party percent = 49.33
party change = +2.10MMP election box candidate lose
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Mangu Mere
votes = 1250
percentage = 6.57
change = -9.56
party votes = -
party percent = -
party change =MMP election box candidate lose
party = Destiny New Zealand
candidate = Ernest Morton
votes = 664
percentage = 3.49
change =
party votes = 80
party percent = 0.40
party change =MMP election box candidate lose
party = Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party
candidate = Judy Daniels
votes = 574
percentage = 3.01
change =
party votes = 126
party percent = 0.64
party change =MMP election box candidate lose
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Hana Maxwell
votes = 207
percentage = 1.09
change =
party votes = -
party percent = -
party change =MMP election box candidate lose
party = New Zealand First
candidate = -
votes =
percentage =
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party votes = 1559
party percent = 7.86
party change =MMP election box candidate lose
party = New Zealand National Party
candidate = -
votes =
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party votes = 994
party percent = 5.01
party change =MMP election box candidate lose
party = Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand
candidate = -
votes =
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party votes = 533
party percent = 2.69
party change =MMP election box candidate lose
party = United Future New Zealand
candidate = -
votes =
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party votes = 81
party percent = 0.41
party change =MMP election box candidate lose
party = New Zealand Progressive Party
candidate = -
votes =
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party votes = 71
party percent = 0.36
party change =MMP election box candidate lose
party = ACT New Zealand
candidate = -
votes =
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party votes = 49
party percent = 0.25
party change =MMP election box candidate lose
party = 99 MP Party
candidate = -
votes =
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party votes = 33
party percent = 0.17
party change =MMP election box candidate lose
party = Christian Heritage New Zealand
candidate = -
votes =
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party votes = 18
party percent = 0.09
party change =MMP election box candidate lose
party = New Zealand Family Rights Protection Party
candidate = -
votes =
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party votes = 17
party percent = 0.09
party change =MMP election box candidate lose
party = New Zealand Democratic Party
candidate =
votes =
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party votes = 10
party percent = 0.05
party change =MMP election box candidate lose
party = Alliance (New Zealand political party)
candidate = -
votes =
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party votes = 6
party percent = 0.03
party change =MMP election box candidate lose
party = The Republic of New Zealand Party
candidate = -
votes =
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party votes = 6
party percent = 0.03
party change =MMP election box candidate lose
party =One New Zealand Party
candidate =
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party votes = 5
party percent = 0.03
party change =MMP election box candidate lose
party = Direct Democracy Party of New Zealand
candidate = -
votes =
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party votes = 3
party percent = 0.02
party change =MMP election box candidate lose
party = Libertarianz
candidate = -
votes =
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party votes = 3
party percent = 0.02
party change =MMP election box informal vote
votes =554 |
party votes = 234 |
MMP election box total vote
votes =19,012 |
party votes = 19,842 | |
MMP election box majority gain
winner = Māori Party
loser = New Zealand Labour Party
votes = 3613
percent = 19.00
change =

References

External links

* [http://www.parliament.nz/NR/rdonlyres/18325815-8EEA-437A-AEE7-0E2BB82B8BC2/208/Te_Tai_Tokerau1.pdfElectorate Profile] "Parliamentary Library"
* [http://2002.electionresults.govt.nz/electorate-67.html 2002 election results] "electionresults.org.nz"