Te Tai Rawhiti (lit. 'The East Coast') was one of the five new New Zealand parliamentaryMāori electorates created in1996 for MMP. It largely replaced its English-named predecessor,Eastern Maori, though Te Tai Rawhiti's boundary was retracted significantly in the centralNorth Island.
Te Tai Rawhiti only existed for one electoral term, and in1999 was largely replaced byWaiariki andIkaroa-Rāwhiti.
The electorate was based in theBay of Plenty andEast Cape regions, as well as parts of easternWaikato, and included the following population centres:
The electorate included the following tribal areas:
Te Tai Rawhiti was one of the five new Māori electorates created for the1996 election with the introduction ofmixed-member proportional (MMP) representation, and which were all won by theTight Five ofNew Zealand First.
In the1999 election it was substantially replaced byWaiariki.
Key
| Election | Winner | |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 election | Tuariki Delamere | |
| Election | Winner | |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 election | Alamein Kopu | |
| 1996 general election: Te Tai Rawhiti[1][2][3] | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| NZ First | Tuariki Delamere | 10,647 | 50.73 | 10,030 | 47.53 | ||||
| Labour | Peter Tapsell | 6,432 | 30.65 | 6,558 | 31.08 | ||||
| Mana Māori | Tame Iti | 1,372 | 6.54 | 649 | 3.08 | ||||
| Alliance | Alamein Kopu | 1,210 | 5.77 | 1,381 | 6.54 | ||||
| National | Peta Butt | 506 | 2.41 | 897 | 4.25 | ||||
| Te Tawharau | Willie Coates | 398 | 1.90 | 171 | 0.81 | ||||
| Independent | Hinemoa Awatere | 352 | 1.68 | ||||||
| Natural Law | Lynette Patterson | 70 | 0.33 | 27 | 0.13 | ||||
| Legalise Cannabis | 623 | 2.95 | |||||||
| Christian Coalition | 433 | 2.05 | |||||||
| ACT | 188 | 0.89 | |||||||
| Progressive Green | 33 | 0.16 | |||||||
| McGillicuddy Serious | 27 | 0.13 | |||||||
| Animals First | 25 | 0.12 | |||||||
| Green Society | 19 | 0.09 | |||||||
| United NZ | 15 | 0.07 | |||||||
| Superannuitants & Youth | 11 | 0.05 | |||||||
| Advance New Zealand | 6 | 0.03 | |||||||
| Ethnic Minority Party | 4 | 0.02 | |||||||
| Asia Pacific United | 2 | 0.01 | |||||||
| Conservatives | 2 | 0.01 | |||||||
| Libertarianz | 2 | 0.01 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 322 | 206 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 20,987 | 21,103 | |||||||
| NZ Firstwin new seat | Majority | 4,215 | 20.08 | ||||||
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