Population Centres

The electorate is rural and north of Auckland

Auckland

The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...

 city, in the North Auckland region.

History

The electorate was created in 1902, and abolished in 1946. From 1911 the seat was represented by Gordon Coates

Gordon Coates

Joseph Gordon Coates, MC and bar served as the 21st Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1925 to 1928.- Early life :Born on the Hukatere Peninsula in Kaipara Harbour where his family ran a farm, Coates took on significant responsibility at a relatively early age because his father suffered from...

 (who was Prime Minister from 1925 to 1928), until he died in 1943. As a (belated) wartime general election

New Zealand general election, 1943

The 1943 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament's 27th term. With the onset of World War II, elections were initially postponed, but it was eventually decided to hold a general election in September 1943, around two years after it...

 was to be held shortly, a by-election was not necessary.

Kaipara was recreated in 1978, and again replaced by Rodney

Rodney (New Zealand electorate)

rightRodney is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The current MP for Rodney is Mark Mitchell of the National Party...

 in 1996. Lockwood Smith

Lockwood Smith

Alexander Lockwood Smith is a New Zealand politician, the 28th and current Speaker of the House of Representatives. Smith is a member of the New Zealand National Party, who has served as a Member of Parliament since 1984...

 then transferred to Rodney, and since 2008 has been the Speaker of the House.

Election results

Key

Election	Winner
		Alfred Harding Alfred Harding Alfred Ernest Harding was an Independent Conservative Member of Parliament in New Zealand. He won the North Auckland seat of in the and held it to , when he was defeated by the Liberal candidate, John Stallworthy...
		John Stallworthy John Stallworthy John Stallworthy was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand.He won the seat in the , and held it to , when he was defeated by the then Independent Liberal candidate Gordon Coates.-References:...
		Gordon Coates Gordon Coates Joseph Gordon Coates, MC and bar served as the 21st Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1925 to 1928.- Early life :Born on the Hukatere Peninsula in Kaipara Harbour where his family ran a farm, Coates took on significant responsibility at a relatively early age because his father suffered from...
		Thomas Webb Thomas Clifton Webb Sir Thomas Clifton Webb KCMG was a New Zealand politician and diplomat. He was born in Te Kopuru in the Kaipara District, studied at Auckland University College, and practised law in Dargaville. He was in the army from 1917-1919, then returned to his practice in Dargaville and was a borough... (Independent National)
		Peter Wilkinson Peter Wilkinson (New Zealand) Peter Ian Wilkinson was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.He represented the Rodney electorate in Parliament from 1969 to 1978, then the Kaipara electorate from 1978 to 1984, when he retired....
		Lockwood Smith Lockwood Smith Alexander Lockwood Smith is a New Zealand politician, the 28th and current Speaker of the House of Representatives. Smith is a member of the New Zealand National Party, who has served as a Member of Parliament since 1984...