Wairarapa (New Zealand Electorate)

Template:Infobox constituency Wairarapa is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate. It was first created in 1858 (with the first election in 1859) and existed until 1881. It was recreated in 1887 and has since existed continuously. In the early years, the electorate was for a time represented by two members. Wairarapa has been held by Kieran McAnulty since the Template:NZ election link.

Population centres

The initial 24 New Zealand electorates were defined by Governor George Grey in March 1853, based on the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 that had been passed by the British government. The Constitution Act also allowed the House of Representatives to establish new electorates, and this was first done in 1858, when four new electorates were formed by splitting existing electorates.^[1] Wairarapa was one of those four electorates, and it was established by splitting the Wairarapa and Hawke's Bay electorate, and incorporating areas that previously did not belong to any electorate.^[2] Settlements in the initial area were Featherston, Carterton, Eketahuna, and Pahiatua.^[3] For the 1860 election, there were 266 voters registered.^[4]

In the 1887 electoral redistribution, although the Representation Commission was required through the Representation Act 1887 to maintain existing electorates "as far as possible", rapid population growth in the North Island required the transfer of three seats from the South Island to the north. Ten new electorates were created, and one former electorate, Wairarapa, was recreated.^[5]

The electorate boundaries were last adjusted in the 2007 redistribution.^[6] No boundary adjustments were undertaken in the subsequent 2013/14 or 2019/20 redistributions.^[7]

The current electorate includes the following population centres (approximate population in brackets) from the Wairarapa area of the Wellington region, the Tararua District (part of the Manawatū-Whanganui region) and the Central Hawke's Bay District (part of the Hawke's Bay region):

Carterton (5,850)
Featherston (2,710)
Greytown (2,720)
Martinborough (1,960)
Woodville (1,650)

During the 2019/20 boundary review done by the Electoral Commission, Kieran McAnulty, a List MP based in the electorate, and Central Hawke's Bay Mayor Alex Walker, proposed that the electorate be renamed to Wairarapa and Central Hawke's Bay in order to acknowledge the communities included in the electorate.^[8] Ultimately the commission decided against changing the name.

History

The first election was held on 7 November 1859, and Charles Carter was the first representative until 1865, when he resigned.^[9]^[9] He was succeeded by Henry Bunny from 1865 to 1881.^[10] Since 1871, the electorate had two representatives,^[11] and the second one was John Chapman Andrew until he resigned in 1877, succeeded by George Beetham from 1877 to 1881.^[12]

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.^[13]

Between 1899 and 1919 the Wairarapa electorate swung between Walter Clarke Buchanan the Conservative then Reform candidate and J. T. Marryat Hornsby the Liberal candidate, changing hands in 1902, 1905, 1908 and 1914.^[14] 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 for Reform.^[15] In 1928 he was defeated by Thomas William McDonald the United (Liberal) candidate, but in 1931 McLeod won the seat back.^[16]

Ben Roberts represented the electorate for the Labour Party from the Template:NZ election link until 1946, when he retired.^[17] In the Template:NZ election link, Roberts was unsuccessfully challenged by National's Jimmy Maher.^[18]

In the Template:NZ election link, Reg Boorman won the initial count 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 upheld Creech's petition, and Creech won the seat in 1988 with a majority of 34 votes (9994 to 9960).^[19]

Creech held the Wairarapa electorate for four parliamentary terms. In December 1997, he became Deputy Leader of the National Party. That gave him number two on the National party list, and he did not contest an electorate in the Template:NZ election link. The National Party stood Paul Henry in the election, but to the general surprise of political commentators, the typically right-leaning electorate was won by Labour's Georgina Beyer with a 3,033 vote majority to become the world's first transsexual member of parliament.^[20] At the Template:NZ election link, Beyer was easily re-elected with an increased majority of 6,372 votes.^[21] Beyer stood in the Template:NZ election link as a list-only candidate, and the Wairarapa electorate was won by John Hayes of the National Party.^[22] Hayes held the electorate for three parliamentary terms and retired at the Template:NZ election link,^[22]^[23] when he was succeeded by National's Alastair Scott.^[24]

Members of Parliament

Key

Single-member electorate

Election	Winner
1859 election	Charles Carter
1860 election	Charles Carter
Henry Bunny

Multi-member electorate

Election	Winner
Henry Bunny	John Chapman Andrew
		1876 election
	George Beetham

Single-member electorate

Election	Winner
Walter Clarke Buchanan
	J. T. Marryat Hornsby
	Walter Clarke Buchanan
	J. T. Marryat Hornsby
Walter Clarke Buchanan
Walter Clarke Buchanan	J. T. Marryat Hornsby
Alexander McLeod
	Thomas McDonald
	Alexander McLeod
Ben Roberts
	Garnet Mackley
	Bert Cooksley
Haddon Donald
Haddon Donald		Jack Williams
Ben Couch		Jack Williams
		Reg Boorman
	1988^{[note 1]}	Reg Boorman	Wyatt Creech
Georgina Beyer
Georgina Beyer	John Hayes
Alastair Scott
Alastair Scott		Kieran McAnulty

List MPs

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

Election	Winner
Edwin Perry
	Ron Mark
	Ron Mark
Kieran McAnulty

↑ The election of Reg Boorman was overturned by the Electoral Court on 12 July 1988

Election results

2020 election

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2014 election

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2011 election

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2008 election

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2002 election

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1999 election

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1996 election

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1993 election

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1993 general election: Wairarapa^[26]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand National Party\|Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/shortname]]	Wyatt Creech	9,004	41.60	-11.53
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand Labour Party\|Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/shortname]]	Peter Teahan	6,775	31.30
style="background-color: Template:Alliance (New Zealand political party)/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Alliance (New Zealand political party)\|Template:Alliance (New Zealand political party)/meta/shortname]]	Dave MacPherson	4,162	19.23	+10.97
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand First/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand First\|Template:New Zealand First/meta/shortname]]	Jayne Routhan	1,051	4.85
style="background-color: Template:Christian Heritage Party of New Zealand/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Christian Heritage Party of New Zealand\|Template:Christian Heritage Party of New Zealand/meta/shortname]]	Mike Lloyd	597	2.75
style="background-color: Template:Natural Law Party of New Zealand/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Natural Law Party of New Zealand\|Template:Natural Law Party of New Zealand/meta/shortname]]	Ken Reinsfield	51	0.23
Turnout			21,640	86.68	+0.57

1990 election

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1990 general election: Wairarapa^[27]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand National Party\|Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/shortname]]	Wyatt Creech	10,767	53.13	-4.43
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand Labour Party\|Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/shortname]]	Pauline Moran	6,626	32.69
style="background-color: Template:NewLabour Party (New Zealand)/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[NewLabour Party (New Zealand)\|Template:NewLabour Party (New Zealand)/meta/shortname]]	Dave MacPherson	1,674	8.26
style="background-color: Template:Christian Heritage Party of New Zealand/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Christian Heritage Party of New Zealand\|Template:Christian Heritage Party of New Zealand/meta/shortname]]	G Hounsell	651	3.21
style="background-color: Template:Social Credit Party (New Zealand)/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Social Credit Party (New Zealand)\|Template:Social Credit Party (New Zealand)/meta/shortname]]	R Muir	236	1.16
style="background-color: Template:McGillicuddy Serious Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[McGillicuddy Serious Party\|Template:McGillicuddy Serious Party/meta/shortname]]	S Neilsen	199	0.98
style="background-color: Template:Democrats for Social Credit/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Democrats for Social Credit\|Template:Democrats for Social Credit/meta/shortname]]	G J Shakes	112	0.55	-2.19
Turnout			20,265	86.11	-6.08

1987 election

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1987 general election: Wairarapa^[28]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand National Party\|Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/shortname]]	Wyatt Creech	9,994	48.70
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand Labour Party\|Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/shortname]]	Reg Boorman	9,960	48.54	+6.35
style="background-color: Template:Democrats for Social Credit/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Democrats for Social Credit\|Template:Democrats for Social Credit/meta/shortname]]	G J Shakes	564	2.74
Turnout			20,518	92.19	-2.32

1984 election

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1984 general election: Wairarapa^[28]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand Labour Party\|Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/shortname]]	Reg Boorman	9,009	42.19
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand National Party\|Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/shortname]]	Ben Couch	8,615	40.34	-3.54
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand Party\|Template:New Zealand Party/meta/shortname]]	Simon Bliss	2,908	13.61
style="background-color: Template:Social Credit Party (New Zealand)/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Social Credit Party (New Zealand)\|Template:Social Credit Party (New Zealand)/meta/shortname]]	M C Jury	819	3.83
Turnout			21,351	94.51	+2.98

1981 election

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1981 general election: Wairarapa^[28]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand National Party\|Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/shortname]]	Ben Couch	8,569	43.88	-1.45
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand Labour Party\|Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/shortname]]	Tom Gemmell	7,023	35.96
style="background-color: Template:Social Credit Party (New Zealand)/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Social Credit Party (New Zealand)\|Template:Social Credit Party (New Zealand)/meta/shortname]]	Wally Cowl	3,936	20.15	+7.89
Turnout			19,528	91.53	+13.07

1978 election

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1978 general election: Wairarapa^[28]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand National Party\|Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/shortname]]	Ben Couch	8,968	45.33	-4.10
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand Labour Party\|Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/shortname]]	Allan Levett	8,131	41.10
style="background-color: Template:Social Credit Party (New Zealand)/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Social Credit Party (New Zealand)\|Template:Social Credit Party (New Zealand)/meta/shortname]]	Wally Cowl	2,426	12.26	+6.03
style="background-color: Template:Values Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Values Party\|Template:Values Party/meta/shortname]]	Chris Hackney	258	1.30
Turnout			19,783	78.46	-10.24

1975 election

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1975 general election: Wairarapa^[28]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand National Party\|Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/shortname]]	Ben Couch	9,245	49.43	+5.17
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand Labour Party\|Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/shortname]]	Jack Williams	7,777	41.58	-9.20
style="background-color: Template:Social Credit Party (New Zealand)/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Social Credit Party (New Zealand)\|Template:Social Credit Party (New Zealand)/meta/shortname]]	Wally Cowl	1,167	6.23
style="background-color: Template:Values Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Values Party\|Template:Values Party/meta/shortname]]	Bill Ashdown	514	2.74
Turnout			18,703	88.70	-3.53

1972 election

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1972 general election: Wairarapa^[28]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand Labour Party\|Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/shortname]]	Jack Williams	8,459	50.78	+2.75
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand National Party\|Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/shortname]]	Ben Couch	7,373	44.26
style="background-color: Template:Social Credit Party (New Zealand)/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Social Credit Party (New Zealand)\|Template:Social Credit Party (New Zealand)/meta/shortname]]	Jack Morrow	698	4.19
style="background-color: Template:New Democratic Party (New Zealand)/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Democratic Party (New Zealand)\|Template:New Democratic Party (New Zealand)/meta/shortname]]	Harold Knox	32	0.19
Turnout			16,656	92.23	+0.28

1969 election

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1969 general election: Wairarapa^[29]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand Labour Party\|Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/shortname]]	Jack Williams	7,981	48.03	+5.44
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand National Party\|Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/shortname]]	Haddon Donald	7,514	45.22	-0.83
style="background-color: Template:Social Credit Party (New Zealand)/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Social Credit Party (New Zealand)\|Template:Social Credit Party (New Zealand)/meta/shortname]]	Jack Morrow	1,121	6.74
Turnout			16,616	92.51	+1.77

1966 election

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1966 general election: Wairarapa^[29]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand National Party\|Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/shortname]]	Haddon Donald	7,080	46.05	-1.75
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand Labour Party\|Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/shortname]]	Jack Williams	6,547	42.59	-1.83
style="background-color: Template:Social Credit Party (New Zealand)/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Social Credit Party (New Zealand)\|Template:Social Credit Party (New Zealand)/meta/shortname]]	Roly Marks	1,745	11.35
Turnout			15,372	90.74	-1.53

1963 election

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1963 general election: Wairarapa^[29]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand National Party\|Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/shortname]]	Haddon Donald	7,100	47.80
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand Labour Party\|Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/shortname]]	Jack Williams	6,599	44.42
style="background-color: Template:Social Credit Party (New Zealand)/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Social Credit Party (New Zealand)\|Template:Social Credit Party (New Zealand)/meta/shortname]]	Robert Crawford	1,154	7.76	-1.81
Turnout			14,853	92.27	-0.90

1960 election

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1960 general election: Wairarapa^[29]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand National Party\|Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/shortname]]	Bert Cooksley	7,887	52.10	+3.90
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand Labour Party\|Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/shortname]]	Allan George Goldsmith	5,799	38.31
style="background-color: Template:Social Credit Party (New Zealand)/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Social Credit Party (New Zealand)\|Template:Social Credit Party (New Zealand)/meta/shortname]]	Robert Crawford	1,450	9.57
Turnout			15,136	93.17	-1.43

1957 election

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1957 general election: Wairarapa^[29]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand National Party\|Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/shortname]]	Bert Cooksley	7,121	48.20	-1.11
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand Labour Party\|Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/shortname]]	Bob Wilkie	6,063	41.04	+3.38
style="background-color: Template:Social Credit Party (New Zealand)/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Social Credit Party (New Zealand)\|Template:Social Credit Party (New Zealand)/meta/shortname]]	John Eric Feast	1,588	10.75	-2.26
Turnout			14,772	94.60	+1.40

1954 election

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1954 general election: Wairarapa^[29]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand National Party\|Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/shortname]]	Bert Cooksley	7,160	49.31	-7.80
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand Labour Party\|Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/shortname]]	Bob Wilkie	5,469	37.66
style="background-color: Template:Social Credit Party (New Zealand)/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Social Credit Party (New Zealand)\|Template:Social Credit Party (New Zealand)/meta/shortname]]	John Eric Feast	1,890	13.01
Turnout			14,519	93.20	+0.98

1951 election

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1951 General election: Wairarapa^[29]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand National Party\|Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/shortname]]	Bert Cooksley	8,155	57.11	+3.73
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand Labour Party\|Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/shortname]]	George Anders Hansen	6,123	42.88	-3.73
Turnout			14,278	92.22	-3.45

1949 election

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1949 general election: Wairarapa^[30]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand National Party\|Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/shortname]]	Bert Cooksley	7,596	53.38
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand Labour Party\|Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/shortname]]	George Anders Hansen	6,633	46.61	-2.54
Turnout			14,229	95.67	+1.11

1946 election

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1946 general election: Wairarapa^[31]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand National Party\|Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/shortname]]	Garnet Mackley	7,095	50.84
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand Labour Party\|Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/shortname]]	George Anders Hansen	6,860	49.15
Turnout			13,955	94.56	+3.25

1943 election

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1943 general election: Wairarapa^[32]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand Labour Party\|Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/shortname]]	Ben Roberts	4,806	47.34	-3.67
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand National Party\|Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/shortname]]	Jimmy Maher	4,655	45.86
style="background-color: Template:Democratic Labour Party (New Zealand)/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Democratic Labour Party (New Zealand)\|Template:Democratic Labour Party (New Zealand)/meta/shortname]]	Robert Crawford	424	4.17
style="background-color: Template:Independent politician/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Independent politician\|Template:Independent politician/meta/shortname]]	William Francis Smithson	120	1.18
Turnout			10,150	91.31	-1.97

1938 election

Template:Election box informalTemplate:Election box majorityTemplate:Election box Registered electors

1938 general election: Wairarapa^[33]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand Labour Party\|Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/shortname]]	Ben Roberts	5,293	53.71	+14.77
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand National Party\|Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/shortname]]	James Frederick Thompson	4,516	45.83
Turnout			9,853	93.28	+4.57

1935 election

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1935 general election: Wairarapa^[34]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand Labour Party\|Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/shortname]]	Ben Roberts	3,681	38.94
style="background-color: Template:United Party (New Zealand)/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[United Party (New Zealand)\|Template:United Party (New Zealand)/meta/shortname]]	John Wiltshire Card	3,648	38.59
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Democrat Party (1934)/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand Democrat Party (1934)\|Template:New Zealand Democrat Party (1934)/meta/shortname]]	Thomas William McDonald	2,033	21.50	-24.95
style="background-color: Template:Independent politician/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Independent politician\|Template:Independent politician/meta/shortname]]	Hans Carl Thomsen	91	0.96
Turnout			9,453	88.71	+5.38

1931 election

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1931 general election: Wairarapa^[35]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
style="background-color: Template:Reform Party (New Zealand)/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Reform Party (New Zealand)\|Template:Reform Party (New Zealand)/meta/shortname]]	Alexander Donald McLeod	4,641	53.55	+6.74
style="background-color: Template:United Party (New Zealand)/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[United Party (New Zealand)\|Template:United Party (New Zealand)/meta/shortname]]	Thomas William McDonald	4,025	46.45	-6.74
Turnout			8,815	83.33	-4.91

1928 election

Template:Election box majorityTemplate:Election box informalTemplate:Election box Registered electors

1928 general election: Wairarapa^[36]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
style="background-color: Template:United Party (New Zealand)/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[United Party (New Zealand)\|Template:United Party (New Zealand)/meta/shortname]]	Thomas William McDonald	4,726	53.18
style="background-color: Template:Reform Party (New Zealand)/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Reform Party (New Zealand)\|Template:Reform Party (New Zealand)/meta/shortname]]	Alexander Donald McLeod	4,160	46.82
Turnout			9,003	88.24

1899 election

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1899 general election: Wairarapa^[37]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand Liberal Party\|Template:New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/shortname]]	J. T. Marryat Hornsby	1,974	51.17
style="background-color: Template:Conservative (New Zealand)/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Conservative (New Zealand)\|Template:Conservative (New Zealand)/meta/shortname]]	Walter Clarke Buchanan	1,818	47.12
style="background-color: Template:Independent politician/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Independent politician\|Template:Independent politician/meta/shortname]]	Coleman Phillips^[38]^[39]	66	1.71
Turnout			3,858	82.54

1893 election

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1893 general election: Wairarapa^[40]^[41]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
style="background-color: Template:Conservative (New Zealand)/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Conservative (New Zealand)\|Template:Conservative (New Zealand)/meta/shortname]]	Walter Clarke Buchanan	1,806	50.89	±0
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand Liberal Party\|Template:New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/shortname]]	George Augustus Fairbrother^[42]	1,116	31.45
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand Liberal Party\|Template:New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/shortname]]	Charles Pownall^[43]	627	17.67
Turnout			3,549	81.12	+9.41

1890 election

Template:Election box majorityTemplate:Election box Registered electors

1890 general election: Wairarapa^[44]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
style="background-color: Template:Conservative (New Zealand)/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Conservative (New Zealand)\|Template:Conservative (New Zealand)/meta/shortname]]	Walter Clarke Buchanan	987	58.09
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[New Zealand Liberal Party\|Template:New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/shortname]]	Henry Bunny	712	41.91
Turnout			1,699	71.71

Table footnotes

Notes

↑ McRobie 1989, p. 29.
↑ McRobie 1989, pp. 28f.
↑ McRobie 1989, p. 32.
↑ McRobie 1989, p. 33.
↑ McRobie 1989, pp. 50–53.
↑ Report of the Representation Commission 2007. Representation Commission. 14 September 2007. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-477-10414-2. http://www.elections.org.nz/sites/default/files/2007 Representation Commission Report.pdf. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
↑ Report of the Representation Commission 2014. Representation Commission. 4 April 2014. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-477-10414-2. http://www.elections.org.nz/sites/default/files/bulk-upload/documents/report_of_the_representation_commission_2014.pdf. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
↑ https://elections.nz/assets/objection-form-uploads/09-01-20-Representation-Commission-signed-joint-letter-with-Alex-Walker-Change-name-of-electorate.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
↑ ^9.0 ^9.1 Wilson 1985, p. 188.
↑ Wilson 1985, p. 187.
↑ Wilson 1985, p. 274.
↑ Wilson 1985, pp. 180, 183.
↑ Wilson 1985, pp. 266–267, 274.
↑ Wilson 1985, pp. 186, 206.
↑ Wilson 1985, p. 217.
↑ Wilson 1985, pp. 214, 217.
↑ Wilson 1985, p. 201.
↑ Gustafson 1986, p. 332.
↑ Tunnah, Helen (16 September 2005). "Winston Peters threatens court bid". The New Zealand Herald. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10345792.
↑ Trevett, Claire (27 July 2014). "Georgina Beyer joins Mana Party". The New Zealand Herald. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11299918.
↑ "Official Count Results – Wairarapa". Electoral Commission. 10 August 2002. http://www.electionresults.govt.nz/electionresults_2002/electorate-56.html.
↑ ^22.0 ^22.1 "John Hayes". New Zealand Parliament. 22 September 2014. http://www.parliament.nz/en-nz/mpp/mps/former/50PlibMpsFormerJohnHayes1/hayes-john.
↑ Small, Vernon (18 January 2014). "Wairarapa MP Hayes calls time". The Dominion Post. http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/wairarapa/9623424/Wairarapa-MP-Hayes-calls-time.
↑ "Official Count Results – Wairarapa". Electoral Commission. 10 October 2014. http://electionresults.org.nz/electionresults_2014/electorate-58.html.
↑ "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 26 November 2011. http://www.elections.org.nz/ages/.
↑ Part 1: Votes recorded at each polling place (Technical report). New Zealand Chief Electoral Office. 1993. p. 125.
↑ Part 1: Votes recorded at each polling place (Technical report). New Zealand Chief Electoral Office. 1990. p. 131.
↑ ^28.0 ^28.1 ^28.2 ^28.3 ^28.4 ^28.5 Norton 1988, p. 374.
↑ ^29.0 ^29.1 ^29.2 ^29.3 ^29.4 ^29.5 ^29.6 Norton 1988, p. 373.
↑ "The General Election, 1949". National Library. 1950. pp. 1–5, 8. http://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&d=AJHR1950-I.2.3.2.43.
↑ "The General Election, 1946". National Library. 1947. pp. 1–11, 14. http://www.atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&cl=search&d=AJHR1947-I.2.4.2.38.
↑ "The General Election, 1943". National Library. 1944. p. 11. http://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&cl=search&d=AJHR1944-I.2.2.5.37.
↑ "The General Election, 1938". National Library. 1939. pp. 1–6. http://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&d=AJHR1939-I.2.3.2.36.
↑ The General Election, 1935. Government Printer. 1936. https://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&cl=search&d=AJHR1936-I.2.3.2.33&srpos=167. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
↑ The General Election, 1931. Government Printer. 1932. p. 5. http://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&d=AJHR1932-I-II.2.3.2.31. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
↑ Skinner, W. A. G. (1929). The General Election, 1928. Government Printer. p. 5. https://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&cl=search&d=AJHR1929-I.2.3.2.37. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
↑ "The General Election, 1899". Wellington: Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives. 19 June 1900. p. 1. http://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&cl=search&d=AJHR1900-I.2.3.2.54.
↑ "The Elections". Ashburton Guardian XXI (4973): p. 1. 23 November 1899. http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AG18991123.2.4.
↑ Cyclopedia Company Limited (1897). "Ex-Councillors". The Cyclopedia of New Zealand : Wellington Provincial District. Wellington: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand. http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc01Cycl-t1-body-d4-d79-d5.html#name-414773-mention. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
↑ The General Election, 1893. Government Printer. 1894. p. 1. http://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&cl=search&d=AJHR1894-I.2.3.2.21. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
↑ "The General Election". Otago Daily Times: p. 6. 28 November 1893. http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=ODT18931128.2.55.
↑ Cyclopedia Company Limited (1897). "Borough of Carterton". The Cyclopedia of New Zealand : Wellington Provincial District. Wellington: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand. http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc01Cycl-t1-body-d4-d79-d3.html#name-414818-mention. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
↑ "New Zealand". The Press L (8593): p. 5. 21 September 1893. http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=CHP18930921.2.27.
↑ "The General Election, 1890". National Library. 1891. http://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&cl=search&d=AJHR1891-I.2.1.6.2.

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Wilson, James Oakley (1985). New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.

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[FOOTNOTEMcRobie198928f-2] McRobie 1989, pp. 28f.

[FOOTNOTEMcRobie198932-3] McRobie 1989, p. 32.

[FOOTNOTEMcRobie198933-4] McRobie 1989, p. 33.

[FOOTNOTEMcRobie198950–53-5] McRobie 1989, pp. 50–53.

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