Bay of Plenty (New Zealand electorate)

Bay of Plenty is a New Zealand

New Zealand

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electoral division

New Zealand electorates

An electorate is a voting district for elections to the Parliament of New Zealand. In informal discussion, electorates are often called seats. The most formal description, electoral district, is rarely seen outside of electoral legislation. Before 1996, all Members of Parliament were directly...

returning one member to the New Zealand House of Representatives

Parliament of New Zealand

The Parliament of New Zealand consists of the Queen of New Zealand and the New Zealand House of Representatives and, until 1951, the New Zealand Legislative Council. The House of Representatives is often referred to as "Parliament".The House of Representatives usually consists of 120 Members of...

. The current

50th New Zealand Parliament

The 50th New Zealand Parliament will be elected at the 2011 election. It will contain 121 members , and will serve from 26 November 2011 until another election is called, no later than early 2015....

representative Tony Ryall

Tony Ryall

Anthony Boyd Williams "Tony" Ryall is New Zealand politician. He has represented voters and the National Party in the New Zealand Parliament since 1990. Since November 2008 he has served as a cabinet minister, holding the posts of Minister of Health and Minister of State Services...

, a member of the National Party

New Zealand National Party

The New Zealand National Party is the largest party in the New Zealand House of Representatives and in November 2008 formed a minority government with support from three minor parties.-Policies:...

, has represented the seat since 1996

New Zealand general election, 1996

The 1996 New Zealand general election was held on 12 October 1996 to determine the composition of the 45th New Zealand Parliament. It was notable for being the first election to be held under the new Mixed Member Proportional electoral system, and produced a parliament considerably more diverse...

Geography

The current Bay of Plenty electorate is wrapped around Tauranga

Tauranga

Tauranga is the most populous city in the Bay of Plenty region, in the North Island of New Zealand.It was settled by Europeans in the early 19th century and was constituted as a city in 1963...

city, but does not include the city. It does include Matakana Island

Matakana Island

Matakana Island is located in the western Bay of Plenty in New Zealand's North Island. A long, flat island, it is in length but rarely more than wide. The island has been continuously populated for centuries by a number Māori tribes that are mostly associated with Ngai Te Rangi...

.

Prior to the 2007 boundary review, it did not extend to the western side of Tauranga or to Matakana Island. Instead it comprised a section of the central Bay of Plenty

Bay of Plenty

The Bay of Plenty , often abbreviated to BOP, is a region in the North Island of New Zealand situated around the body of water of the same name...

coast, from the eastern periphery of the Tauranga urban area to outside the main populated part of Whakatane

Whakatane

Whakatane is a town in the eastern Bay of Plenty Region, in the North Island of New Zealand, and is the seat of the Bay of Plenty Regional Council. Whakatane is 90 km east of Tauranga and 89 km north-east of Rotorua, at the mouth of the Whakatane River.The town has a population of , with...

. It included the towns of Te Puke

Te Puke

Te Puke is a town located 28 kilometres southeast of Tauranga in the Western Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand. It is particularly famous for the cultivation of kiwifruit...

, Edgecumbe

Edgecumbe, New Zealand

Edgecumbe is a town in the Bay of Plenty of the North Island of New Zealand, 15 kilometres to the west of Whakatane and eight kilometres south of the Bay's coast. It is the main service town for the agricultural region surrounding the plains of the Rangitaiki River, which flows through the town...

and Papamoa

Papamoa

Papamoa is the largest suburb of Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty region on the northeastern coast of the North Island of New Zealand....

. Rapid population growth around Tauranga has driven considerable boundary change at each review. For the 2008 election

New Zealand general election, 2008

The 2008 New Zealand general election was held on 8 November 2008 to determine the composition of the 49th New Zealand parliament. The conservative National Party, headed by its Parliamentary leader John Key, won a plurality of votes and seats, ending 9 years of government dominated by the social...

, the eastern boundary moved far westwards to the eastern fringe of Te Puke, in the process abandoning sections of the central coast to the Rotorua

Rotorua (New Zealand electorate)

Rotorua is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The current MP for Rotorua is Todd McClay of the National Party, who won the seat in the 2008 general election from incumbent Labour MP Steve Chadwick.- Location :The...

and East Coast

East Coast (New Zealand electorate)

East Coast is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The electorate first existed from 1871 to 1893. From 1996 to 2002, the electorate was called Mahia...

seats.

Bay of Plenty was created for the change to the MMP

Mixed member proportional representation

Mixed-member proportional representation, also termed mixed-member proportional voting and commonly abbreviated to MMP, is a voting system originally used to elect representatives to the German Bundestag, and nowadays adopted by numerous legislatures around the world...

voting system; it was carved out of parts of the old seats of Kaimai, Tarawera and Eastern Bay of Plenty. Its original incarnation was based mostly around Whakatane and Opotiki

Opotiki

Opotiki is a town in the eastern Bay of Plenty in the North Island of New Zealand. It houses the headquarters of the Opotiki District Council and comes under the Bay of Plenty Regional Council.-Population:* of the town: 4176 - Male 1,989, Female 2,187...

districts, with the remaining population coming from Te Puke and parts of greater Tauranga.

History

Bay of Plenty has been a safe seat for National's Tony Ryall, who has been returned easily at every election since the seat's creation. The upper central North Island

North Island

The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the much less populous South Island by Cook Strait. The island is in area, making it the world's 14th-largest island...

is an area where New Zealand First

New Zealand First

New Zealand First is a political party in New Zealand that was founded in 1993, following party founder Winston Peters' resignation from the National Party in 1992...

has done well, frequently getting a higher vote share in seats in both the Bay of Plenty region and in the Waikato

Waikato

The Waikato Region is a local government region of the upper North Island of New Zealand. It covers the Waikato, Hauraki, Coromandel Peninsula, the northern King Country, much of the Taupo District, and parts of Rotorua District...

than it does nationally.

The present seat was created in 1996

New Zealand general election, 1996

for MMP

Mixed member proportional representation

.

The earlier Bay of Plenty seat from 1893 to 1978 was held by William Kelly

William Kelly (New Zealand)

William Kelly was an Irish migrant to New Zealand, and became a businessman, soldier and politician.-Early life:He was born in 1840 in County Louth, Ireland and emigrated to New Zealand as a young man in 1863...

1893-96, William Herries

William Herries

Sir William Herbert Herries KCMG was an English-born New Zealand politician.Herries was born in London, the son of a barrister, and educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. At the age of 22 he emigrated to New Zealand and became a farmer near Te Aroha...

1896-1908, William MacDonald

William Donald Stuart MacDonald

William Donald Stuart MacDonald was a New Zealand politician, Cabinet Minister, and briefly Leader of the Opposition.-Early life:MacDonald was born in Victoria in 1862). He emigrated to Poverty Bay in New Zealand in 1882...

1908-20, Kenneth Stuart Williams

Kenneth Stuart Williams

Kenneth Stuart Williams was a Reform Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand. He was Minister of Public Works from 1926 to 1928 in the Reform Government....

1920-35, Gordon Hultquist

Gordon Hultquist

Axel Gordon Hultquist, known as Gordon Hultquist was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.-Early life:Hultquist was born in Bunbury, Western Australia, an electrician and the son of a Swedish Salvation Army Officer....

1935-41, William Sullivan

William Sullivan (New Zealand)

Sir William Sullivan was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.He represented the Bay of Plenty electorate from the 1941 by-election after the death of Gordon Hultquist to 13 February 1957, when he resigned following the death of his son who ran the family construction business.He was the...

1941-57, Percy Allen

Percy Benjamin Allen

Percy Benjamin Allen was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.He represented the Bay of Plenty electorate in Parliament from 1957, when he won the 1957 by-election after the resignation of William Sullivan, until 1975, when he retired....

1957-75 and Duncan MacIntyre 1975-78.

Members of Parliament

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

Key

Election	Winner
		William Kelly William Kelly (New Zealand) William Kelly was an Irish migrant to New Zealand, and became a businessman, soldier and politician.-Early life:He was born in 1840 in County Louth, Ireland and emigrated to New Zealand as a young man in 1863...
		William Herries William Herries Sir William Herbert Herries KCMG was an English-born New Zealand politician.Herries was born in London, the son of a barrister, and educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. At the age of 22 he emigrated to New Zealand and became a farmer near Te Aroha...



		William MacDonald William Donald Stuart MacDonald William Donald Stuart MacDonald was a New Zealand politician, Cabinet Minister, and briefly Leader of the Opposition.-Early life:MacDonald was born in Victoria in 1862). He emigrated to Poverty Bay in New Zealand in 1882... ¹



		Kenneth Williams Kenneth Stuart Williams Kenneth Stuart Williams was a Reform Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand. He was Minister of Public Works from 1926 to 1928 in the Reform Government.... ¹




		Gordon Hultquist Gordon Hultquist Axel Gordon Hultquist, known as Gordon Hultquist was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.-Early life:Hultquist was born in Bunbury, Western Australia, an electrician and the son of a Swedish Salvation Army Officer.... ¹

		William Sullivan William Sullivan (New Zealand) Sir William Sullivan was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.He represented the Bay of Plenty electorate from the 1941 by-election after the death of Gordon Hultquist to 13 February 1957, when he resigned following the death of his son who ran the family construction business.He was the... ²





		Percy Allen Percy Benjamin Allen Percy Benjamin Allen was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.He represented the Bay of Plenty electorate in Parliament from 1957, when he won the 1957 by-election after the resignation of William Sullivan, until 1975, when he retired....






		Duncan MacIntyre
electorate abolished, see
		Tony Ryall Tony Ryall Anthony Boyd Williams "Tony" Ryall is New Zealand politician. He has represented voters and the National Party in the New Zealand Parliament since 1990. Since November 2008 he has served as a cabinet minister, holding the posts of Minister of Health and Minister of State Services...

¹ Died in office

² Resigned during term

List MPs

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

Election	Winner
		Peter Brown

Candidates in the

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Electorate (as at 21 October 2011): 46,546

2008 election

2005 election

External links

Holders of Bay of Plenty seat, from 1893 to 1941
Electorate Profile, current
Electorate Profile, 2005. Parliamentary Library

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