Te Tai Hauāuru

Te Tai Hauāuru
Single-member Māori constituency for the New Zealand House of Representatives
Formation	1996
Region	Waikato Taranaki Manawatū-Whanganui Wellington
Character	Urban and rural
Term	3 years
Member for Te Tai Hauāuru
Debbie Ngarewa-Packer since 14 October 2023
Party	Te Pāti Māori
Previous MP	Adrian Rurawhe (Labour)
Party vote distribution

Te Tai Hauāuru (lit. 'The West Coast') is a New Zealand parliamentary Māori electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives, that was first formed for the 1996 election. The electorate was represented by Tariana Turia from 2002 to 2014, first for the Labour Party and then for the Māori Party. Turia retired and was succeeded in 2014 by Labour's Adrian Rurawhe who retained the seat in 2017 and again in 2020.

Te Tai Hauāuru was created ahead of the first MMP election in 1996. Te Tai Hauāuru covers the western North Island, starting in the South Waikato before heading south through the King Country towns of Te Kūiti and Taumarunui to include all of the Taranaki region and all towns in the Manawatū-Whanganui region west of the Manawatū Gorge. Its southern terminus is in Wellington at Tawa. The main population centres are Tokoroa, New Plymouth, Whanganui, Palmerston North and Porirua. It is also home of the politically influential Rātana movement.

In the 2007 boundary redistribution, the area covered by the Ngāti Maniapoto tribe was transferred from the Tainui electorate to Te Tai Hauāuru.^[1] The boundaries were not further altered in the 2013/14 redistribution.^[2]

The seat includes the Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Maru (Taranaki), Te Āti Awa, Taranaki, Ngā Ruahine, Ngāti Ruanui, Ngā Rauru, Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Hauiti, Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga, Ngāti Kauwhata, Rangitāne, Muaūpoko, Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Maniapoto and Ngāti Huia tribal areas (rohe).^[3]

Te Tai Hauāuru was first used at the 1996 election and contained all area from South Auckland to just south of Te Kūiti. 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 Tuku 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 led 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 re-contest the seat in a 2004 by-election 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. Turia confirmed in November 2013 that she would retire at the 2014 election.^[4] She was succeeded by Adrian Rurawhe of the Labour Party, who defeated Chris McKenzie of the Māori Party.^[5]

The electorate became important for the Māori party again in 2020, as it was broadly considered the party's best chance at winning an electorate and returning to parliament. However, a poll released a few weeks before the election suggested that Labour's incumbent had a substantial lead over the Māori Party candidate, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer.^[6]

Key

  NZ First   Mauri Pacific   Labour   Te Pāti Māori

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.

2020 general election: Te Tai Hauāuru[8]
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	Y Adrian Rurawhe		12,160	47.40	+3.54	16,022	61.03	+2.56
	Māori Party	Debbie Ngarewa-Packer		11,107	43.29	+4.08	4,055	15.45	+0.47
	Advance NZ	Noeline Apiata		787	3.07	−	700	2.67	−
	ONE	Korrallie Bailey-Taurua		333	1.30	−	208	0.79	−
	Outdoors	Kiri McKee		317	1.24	−	44	0.17	+0.14
	New Conservative	Joshua Morgan		248	0.97	−	85	0.32	+0.25
	Green						1,762	6.71	+0.18
	NZ First						922	3.51	-3.75
	National						786	2.99	-3.55
	Legalise Cannabis						550	2.10	+0.63
	ACT						316	1.20	+1.12
	Opportunities						260	0.99	-1.86
	Vision NZ						119	0.45	–
	Social Credit						9	0.03	+0.01
	Sustainable NZ						4	0.02	—
	TEA						4	0.02	–
	Heartland						2	0.01	—
Informal votes				704			404
Total valid votes				25,656			26,252
	Labour hold		Majority	1,053	4.11	-0.55

2017 general election: Te Tai Hauāuru[9]
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	Y Adrian Rurawhe		9,791	43.86	+2.52	13,475	58.47	+16.24
	Māori Party	Howie Tamati		8,752	39.21	+5.81	3,448	14.96	−2.68
	Green	Jack McDonald		2,798	12.53	−2.82	1,507	6.53	−5.40
	Independent	Wikitoria Waitai-Rapana		410	1.83	—
	NZ First						1,675	7.26	−4.53
	National						1,509	6.54	−0.57
	Opportunities						658	2.85	—
	Legalise Cannabis						221	0.95	−0.42
	Mana						160	0.69	−6.13
	Ban 1080						52	0.22	+0.01
	ACT						20	0.08	−0.05
	People's Party						20	0.08	—
	Conservative						17	0.07	−0.50
	Outdoors						8	0.03	—
	Internet						6	0.02	−6.80
	United Future						6	0.02	−0.05
	Democrats						2	0.008	−0.002
Informal votes				568			260
Total valid votes				22,319			23,044
	Labour hold		Majority	1,039	4.66	-3.28

2011 general election: Te Tai Hauāuru[11]
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 Tariana Turia		8,433	48.30	-22.28	3,829	21.05	-9.71
	Labour	Soraya Peke-Mason		5,212	29.85	+0.43	7,645	42.03	-8.62
	Green	Jack 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 Party hold		Majority	3,221	18.45	-22.71

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 32,617^[12]

2008 general election: Te Tai Hauāuru[13]
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 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 Party hold		Majority	7,817	41.15

2005 general election: Te Tai Hauāuru[14]
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 Tariana Turia		10,922	62.98		5,739	31.68
	Labour	Errol Mason		5,809	33.49		9,619	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 Party hold		Majority	5,113	29.48

The following table shows the final results of the by-election:^[15]

2004 Te Tai Hauauru by-election
Notes: Blue background denotes the winner of the by-election. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list prior to the by-election. Yellow background denotes the winner of the by-election, who was a list MP prior to the by-election. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Māori Party	Y 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 Party gain from Labour		Swing

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

1999 general election: Te Tai Hauāuru[17][18]
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	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		1,068	6.82		983	6.23
	National	Dennis Patuwairua		555	3.55		698	4.42
	Piri Wiri Tua	Dalvanius Prime		224	1.43
	Christian Democrats	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	6,233	39.82

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