The Southern Division was a New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 parliamentary electorate

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...

 in the Auckland Province

Auckland Province

The Auckland Province was a province of New Zealand from 1853 until the abolition of provincial government in 1876.-Anniversary Day:...

 from 1853 to 1860. It was a large two-member electorate south 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, extending to the southern boundary of the province and encompassing the Waikato, Coromandel

Coromandel, New Zealand

Coromandel is the name of a town and harbour on the western side of the Coromandel Peninsula, which is on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand...

, 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...

 and East Cape

East Cape

East Cape is the easternmost point of the main islands of New Zealand. It is located to the north of Gisborne in the northeast of the North Island....

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History

Haultain contested a by-election on 8 May 1858 and was elected. He represented the electorate until the end of the term in 1860, when he was defeated for the Raglan

Raglan (New Zealand electorate)

-History:The Raglan electorate existed from 1861 to 1870, from 1911 to 1978, and then from 1984 to 1996.In 1996, Simon Upton who was then the MP for Raglan chose to become a list MP...

 electorate.

Members of Parliament for Southern Division

Election	Winners
1853 election New Zealand general election, 1853 The 1853 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament's 1st term. It was the first national election ever held in New Zealand, although Parliament did not yet have full authority to govern the colony, which was part of the British Empire at...		John Gray John Gray (New Zealand) John Gray was a New Zealand politician. He served in the 1st New Zealand Parliament, representing the Southern Division, a large electorate encompassing Waikato, the Coromandel, the Bay of Plenty, and East Cape. He did not serve in any subsequent parliaments....		Charles John Taylor Charles John Taylor Charles John Taylor was a New Zealand politician. He served in the 1st New Zealand Parliament and the 2nd New Zealand Parliament as representative for the Southern Division; , and served in the 3rd New Zealand Parliament as representative for the Raglan electorate...
1855 election New Zealand general election, 1855 The 1855 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament's 2nd term. It was the second national election ever held in New Zealand, and the first one which elected a Parliament that had full authority to govern the colony.-Background:The first...		Robert Graham
1858 by-election				Theodore Haultain Theodore Haultain Theodore Minet Haultain was a 19th century New Zealand politician and Minister of Colonial Defence...