# List of New Zealand electorates

Electorates in New Zealand were initially created for election to the first parliament in 1853. Since then there have been numerous changes, perhaps the largest being in 1996 for the introduction of MMP.

## General electorates

| Electorate name | Region | First established | Last abolished | Became |
| Akaroa | Canterbury | 1853 | 1893 | Merged into Ellesmere. |
| Albany | Auckland | 1978 | 2002 | East Coast Bays, with part merging into Helensville. |
| Aoraki | Canterbury and Otago | 1996 | 2008 | Rangitata and Waitaki |
| Arch Hill | Auckland | 1946 | 1954 | |
| Ashburton | Canterbury | 1881 | 1993 | |
| Ashley | Canterbury | 1866 | 1902 | Hurunui |
| Auckland | Auckland | 1853 | 1905 | Auckland Central, Auckland East, and Auckland West |
| Auckland Central | Auckland | 1887 | Current | Current |
| Auckland East | Auckland | 1861 | 1946 | |
| Auckland North | Auckland | 1881 | 1890 | |
| Auckland Suburbs | Auckland | 1928 | 1946 | |
| Auckland West | Auckland | 1861 | 1946 | |
| Avon | Canterbury | 1861 | 1996 | |
| Awarua | Southland | 1881 | 1996 | |
| Banks Peninsula | Canterbury | 1996 | Current | Current |
| Bay of Islands | Northland | 1853 | 1996 | Far North |
| Bay of Plenty | Bay of Plenty | 1893 | Current | Current |
| Birkenhead | Auckland | 1969 | 1996 | Northcote |
| Botany | Auckland | 2008 | Current | Current |
| Brooklyn | Wellington | 1946 | 1954 | Island Bay |
| Bruce | Otago | 1861 | 1922 | |
| Buller | West Coast and Tasman | 1871 | 1972 | Split into West Coast and Tasman |
| Caversham | Otago | 1866 | 1908 | |
| Chalmers (Port Chalmers) | Otago | 1866 | 1938 | Dunedin Central, Dunedin North and Oamaru |
| Cheviot | Canterbury | 1858 | 1890 | |
| Christchurch (Town of Christchurch, then City of Christchurch) | Canterbury | 1853 | 1905 | |
| Christchurch Central | Canterbury | 1946 | Current | Current |
| Christchurch Country | Canterbury | 1853 | 1860 | |
| Christchurch East | Canterbury | 1871 | Current | Current |
| Christchurch North | Canterbury | 1881 | 1996 | Waimakiriri |
| Christchurch South | Canterbury | 1881 | 1946 | |
| Christchurch West | Canterbury | 1871 | 1875 | |
| City of Dunedin (originally Town of Dunedin) | Otago | 1853 | 1905 | Dunedin Central, Dunedin North and Dunedin South |
| Clevedon | Auckland | 1987 | 2008 | |
| Clive | Hawke's Bay | 1861 | 1881 | |
| Clutha | Otago | 1866 | 1996 | |
| Clutha-Southland | Southland and Otago | 1996 | 2020 | Southland |
| Coleridge | Canterbury | 1866 | 1887 | |
| Collingwood | Tasman | 1861 | 1881 | |
| Coromandel | Waikato | 1881 | Current | Current |
| Courtenay | Tasman | 1902 | 1908 | |
| Dunedin | Otago | 2020 | Current | Current |
| Dunedin Central | Otago | 1881 | 1984 | Dunedin West |
| Dunedin Country | Otago | 1853 | 1860 | |
| Dunedin East | Otago | 1881 | 1890 | |
| Dunedin North | Otago | 1905 | 2020 | Dunedin |
| Dunedin South | Otago | 1881 | 2020 | Taieri |
| Dunedin Suburbs | Otago | 1890 | 1893 | |
| Dunedin and Suburbs North | Otago | 1863 | 1866 | |
| Dunedin and Suburbs South | Otago | 1862 | 1866 | |
| Dunedin West | Otago | 1881 | 1996 | Dunedin South |
| Dunstan | Tasman | 1871 | 1890 | |
| East Cape | Gisborne and Bay of Plenty | 1978 | 1993 | Eastern Bay of Plenty |
| East Coast | Gisborne and Bay of Plenty | 1871 | Current | Current |
| East Coast Bays | Auckland | 1972 | Current | Current |
| Eastern Bay of Plenty | Bay of Plenty | 1993 | 1996 | |
| Eastern Hutt | Wellington | 1978 | 1996 | |
| Eden | Auckland | 1871 | 1996 | Epsom |
| Egmont | Taranaki | 1871 | 1978 | Waitotara |
| Ellesmere | Canterbury | 1861 | 1928 | |
| Epsom | Auckland | 1996 | Current | Current |
| Far North | Northland | 1993 | 1996 | Northland |
| Fendalton | Canterbury | 1946 | 1996 | |
| Foxton | Manawatū-Whanganui and Wellington | 1881 | 1890 | |
| Franklin | Auckland | 1861 | 1996 | |
| Franklin North | Auckland | 1881 | 1890 | |
| Franklin South | Auckland | 1881 | 1890 | |
| Geraldine | Canterbury | 1875 | 1911 | |
| Gisborne | Gisborne | 1908 | 1996 | Mahia |
| Glenfield | Auckland | 1984 | 1996 | |
| Gladstone | Canterbury | 1866 | 1890 | |
| Grey | West Coast | 1890 | 1919 | |
| Grey and Bell | Taranaki | 1853 | 1881 | |
| Grey Lynn | Auckland | 1902 | 1978 | |
| Greymouth | West Coast | 1881 | 1890 | |
| Grey Valley | West Coast | 1871 | 1881 | Greymouth and Inangahua |
| Halswell | Canterbury | 1890 | 1893 | |
| Hamilton | Waikato | 1922 | 1969 | |
| Hamilton East | Waikato | 1972 | Current | Current |
| Hamilton West | Waikato | 1969 | Current | Current |
| Hampden | Otago | 1861 | 1870 | Wakatipu and ? |
| Hastings | Hawke's Bay | 1946 | 1996 | |
| Hauraki | Auckland and Waikato | 1928 | 1996 | Coromandel |
| Hawera | Taranaki | 1896 | 1908 | |
| Hawke | Hawke's Bay | 1858 | 1860 | |
| Hawkes Bay | Hawke's Bay | 1881 | 1996 | Tukituki |
| Heathcote | Canterbury | 1861 | 1893 | |
| Helensville | Auckland | 1978 | 2020 | Kaipara ki Mahurangi |
| Henderson | Auckland | 1969 | 1996 | Waipareira |
| Heretaunga | Wellington | 1954 | 1996 | Remutaka (spelled as Rimutaka until 2020) |
| Hobson | Northland | 1946 | 1996 | Whangarei (existing) and Northland (new) |
| Hokitika | West Coast | 1871 | 1890 | |
| Hokonui | Southland | 1881 | 1890 | |
| Horowhenua | Manawatū-Whanganui | 1978 | 1996 | |
| Howick | Auckland | 1993 | 1996 | Manukau East |
| Hunua | Auckland | 1978 | 2020 | Papakura and Port Waikato |
| Hurunui | Canterbury | 1902 | 1963 | Rangiora |
| Hutt | Wellington | 1853 | 1978 | |
| Hutt South | Wellington | 1996 | Current | Current |
| Ilam | Canterbury | 1996 | Current | Current |
| Inangahua | West Coast | 1881 | 1896 | Absorbed into Buller |
| Invercargill | Southland | 1866 | Current | Current |
| Island Bay | Wellington | 1946 | 1996 | Rongotai and Wellington Central |
| Kaiapoi | Canterbury | 1861 | 1946 | |
| Kaikōura | Marlborough and Canterbury | 1996 | Current | Current |
| Kaimai | Waikato and Bay of Plenty | 1978 | 1996 | Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, and Coromandel |
| Kaipara | Auckland | 1902 | 1996 | |
| Kaipara ki Mahurangi | Auckland | 2020 | Current | Current |
| Kapiti | Wellington | 1972 | 1996 | |
| Karapiro | Waikato | 1996 | 2002 | |
| Karori | Wellington | 1946 | 1978 | Ohariu |
| Kelston | Auckland | 2014 | Current | Current |
| King Country | Waikato | 1972 | 1996 | |
| Kumara | West Coast | 1881 | 1890 | |
| Lincoln | Canterbury | 1881 | 1890 | |
| Linwood | Canterbury | 1887 | 1890 | |
| Lyttelton | Canterbury | 1853 | 1996 | Banks Peninsula |
| Mahia | Gisborne, Hawke's Bay and Bay of Plenty | 1996 | 1999 | East Coast |
| Mana | Wellington | 1996 | Current | Current |
| Manawatu | Manawatū-Whanganui | 1871 | 1996 | |
| Māngere | Auckland | 1969 | Current | Current |
| Manuherikia | Otago | 1866 | 1870 | |
| Manukau | Auckland | 1881 | 1978 | |
| Manukau East | Auckland | 1996 | 2020 | Panmure-Ōtāhuhu |
| Manurewa | Auckland | 1963 | Current | Current |
| Maramarua | Waikato and ? | 1987 | 1993 | |
| Marlborough | Marlborough | 1938 | 1996 | |
| Marsden | Northland | 1858 | 1972 | Whangarei |
| Masterton | Wellington | 1887 | 1946 | Wairarapa |
| Matakana | Waikato | 1993 | 1996 | Coromandel |
| Matamata | Waikato | 1978 | 1996 | |
| Mataura | Southland | 1866 | 1946 | |
| Maungakiekie | Auckland | 1996 | Current | Current |
| Mid-Canterbury | Canterbury | 1928 | 1946 | |
| Miramar | Wellington | 1946 | 1996 | |
| Moeraki | Otago | 1881 | 1887 | |
| Mongonui | Northland | 1861 | 1870 | |
| Mongonui and Bay of Islands | Northland | 1871 | 1881 | |
| Mornington | Otago | 1946 | 1963 | |
| Motueka | Tasman | 1860 | 1946 | |
| Motueka and Massacre Bay | Tasman | 1853 | 1860 | Motueka and Collingwood |
| Mount Albert | Auckland | 1946 | Current | Current |
| Mount Herbert | Canterbury | 1866 | 1870 | Akaroa |
| Mount Ida | Otago | 1871 | 1908 | |
| Mount Roskill | Auckland | 1999 | Current | Current |
| Mount Victoria | Wellington | 1946 | 1954 | |
| Napier | Hawke's Bay | 1861 | Current | Current |
| Nelson | Nelson and Tasman | 1853 | Current | Current |
| New Lynn | Auckland | 1963 | Current | Current |
| New Plymouth | Taranaki | 1853 | Current | Current |
| Newton | Auckland | 1861 | 1893 | |
| Newtown | Wellington | 1902 | 1908 | Wellington South |
| North Shore | Auckland | 1946 | Current | Current |
| Northcote | Auckland | 1996 | Current | Current |
| Northern Division | Auckland | 1853 | 1870 | |
| Northland | Northland | 1996 | Current | Current |
| Oamaru | Otago | 1866 | 1978 | Waitaki |
| Ōhāriu | Wellington | 1978 | Current | Current |
| Ohariu-Belmont | Wellington | 1996 | 2008 | Ōhāriu (then Ōhariu) |
| Ohinemuri | Waikato and Bay of Plenty | 1896 | 1928 | Thames and Waikato |
| Omata | Taranaki | 1853 | 1870 | |
| Onehunga | Auckland | 1861 | 1996 | Maungakiekie |
| Onslow | Wellington | 1946 | 1996 | Ohariu-Belmont |
| Oroua | Manawatū-Whanganui | 1902 | 1938 | |
| Otago | Otago | 1978 | 2008 | Waitaki |
| Otago Central | Otago | 1911 | 1978 | Otago |
| Otahuhu | Auckland | 1938 | 1984 | Panmure |
| Ōtaki | Wellington and Manawatū-Whanganui | 1893 | Current | Current |
| Otara | Auckland | 1984 | 1996 | Mangere |
| Owairaka | Auckland | 1996 | 1999 | Mount Roskill and Mount Albert |
| Pahiatua | Manawatū-Whanganui and Wellington | 1896 | 1996 | |
| Pakuranga | Auckland | 1963 | Current | Current |
| Palmerston North (formerly Palmerston) | Manawatū-Whanganui | 1890 | Current | Current |
| Panmure | Auckland | 1984 | 1996 | Maungakiekie |
| Panmure-Ōtāhuhu (formerly Manukau East) | Auckland | 2020 | Current | Current |
| Papakura | Auckland | 1978 | Current | Current |
| Papanui | Canterbury | 1969 | 1984 | Christchurch North |
| Papatoetoe | Auckland | 1978 | 1996 | Manukau East |
| Pareora | Canterbury | 1893 | 1896 | |
| Parnell | Auckland | 1861 | 1954 | |
| Patea | Taranaki | 1893 | 1963 | Waimarino |
| Pencarrow | Wellington | 1978 | 1996 | Hutt South |
| Peninsula | Otago | 1881 | 1893 | |
| Pensioner Settlements | Auckland | 1853 | 1870 | |
| Petone | Wellington | 1946 | 1978 | Pencarrow and Western Hutt |
| Piako | Waikato | 1946 | 2008 | |
| Picton | Marlborough | 1861 | 1887 | |
| Ponsonby | Auckland | 1887 | 1963 | Grey Lynn |
| Porirua | Wellington | 1860 | 1996 | |
| Port Hills | Canterbury | 2008 | 2020 | Banks Peninsula |
| Port Waikato | Auckland and Waikato | 1996 | Current | Current |
| Raglan | Auckland and Waikato | 1860 | 1996 | Port Waikato |
| Rakaia | Canterbury | 1972 | 2008 | |
| Rangiora | Canterbury | 1963 | 1996 | Waimakariri |
| Rangiriri | Auckland | 1978 | 1984 | Raglan and Franklin |
| Rangitata | Canterbury | 1887 | Current | Current |
| Rangitīkei | Manawatū-Whanganui | 1861 | Current | Current |
| Remuera | Auckland | 1938 | 1996 | Epsom |
| Remutaka (formerly Rimutaka) | Wellington | 1996 | Current | Current |
| Riccarton | Canterbury | 1893 | 1978 | |
| Riverton | Southland | 1866 | 1881 | |
| Rodney | Auckland | 1871 | 2020 | Whangaparāoa |
| Rongotai | Wellington | 1996 | Current | Current |
| Roskill | Auckland | 1919 | 1996 | Owairaka |
| Roslyn | Otago | 1866 | 1890 | |
| Rotorua | Bay of Plenty | 1919 | Current | Current |
| Ruahine | Manawatū-Whanganui | 1972 | 1978 | Rangitikei |
| St Albans | Canterbury | 1881 | 1996 | Christchurch Central |
| St Kilda | Otago | 1946 | 1996 | Dunedin South |
| Selwyn | Canterbury | 1866 | Current | Current |
| Southland | Southland and Otago | 2020 | Current | Current |
| South Canterbury | Canterbury | 1969 | 1978 | Ashburton and Waitaki |
| Southern Division | Auckland | 1853 | 1860 | Franklin and Raglan |
| Stanmore | Canterbury | 1881 | 1887 | |
| Stratford | Taranaki | 1908 | 1978 | |
| Suburbs of Auckland | Auckland | 1853 | 1860 | |
| Suburbs of Nelson | Nelson | 1861 | | |
| Sydenham | Canterbury | 1881 | 1996 | Wigram |
| Taieri | Otago | 1866 | Current | Current |
| Takanini | Auckland | 2020 | Current | Current |
| Tāmaki | Auckland | 1946 | Current | Current |
| Taranaki | Taranaki and Manawatū-Whanganui | 1881 | 1996 | Taranaki-King Country |
| Taranaki-King Country | Taranaki and Waikato | 1996 | Current | Current |
| Tarawera | Bay of Plenty and ? | 1978 | 1996 | Rotorua |
| Tasman | Tasman and Marlborough | 1972 | 1996 | West Coast-Tasman |
| Taumarunui | Manawatū-Whanganui | 1908 | 1919 | |
| Taupō | Waikato | 1963 | Current | Current |
| Tauranga | Bay of Plenty | 1881 | Current | Current |
| Te Aro | Wellington | 1881 | 1890 | City of Wellington |
| Te Aroha | Waikato | 1890 | 1893 | |
| Te Atatū | Auckland | 1978 | Current | Current |
| Temuka | Canterbury | 1911 | 1946 | Ashburton and Waimate |
| Tukituki | Hawke's Bay | 1996 | Current | Current |
| Thames | Waikato | 1871 | 1946 | |
| Thorndon | Wellington | 1881 | 1890 | |
| Timaru | Canterbury | 1861 | 1996 | Aoraki |
| Titirangi | Auckland | 1987 | 2002 | New Lynn |
| Tongariro | Waikato and ? | 1984 | 1996 | Taupo |
| Totara | West Coast | 1871 | 1881 | Hokitika |
| Tuapeka | Otago | 1871 | 1911 | Otago Central |
| Upper Harbour | Auckland | 2014 | Current | Current |
| Waiapu | Gisborne, Hawke's Bay (and Bay of Plenty?) | 1893 | 1908 | Bay of Plenty and Gisborne |
| Waihemo | Otago | 1887 | 1902 | |
| Waikaia | Southland | 1871 | 1890 | |
| Waikaremoana | Hawke's Bay ? Bay of Plenty ? Waikato ? | 1984 | 1996 | Taupo |
| Waikato | Waikato | 1871 | Current | Current |
| Waikouaiti | Otago | 1866 | 1908 | |
| Waimakariri | Canterbury | 1996 | Current | Current |
| Waimarino | Manawatū-Whanganui and ? | 1911 | 1972 | Rangitikei and King Country |
| Waimate | Canterbury | 1881 | 1957 | Timaru |
| Waimea | Nelson | 1853 | 1887 | |
| Waimea-Picton | Marlborough and Nelson | 1887 | 1893 | |
| Waimea-Sounds | Marlborough and Nelson | 1893 | 1896 | |
| Waipa | Waikato | 1876 | 1996 | |
| Waipareira | Auckland | 1996 | 1999 | Te Atatū |
| Waipawa | Hawke's Bay | 1881 | 1946 | Hawkes Bay |
| Wairarapa | Wellington, Manawatū-Whanganui and Hawke's Bay | 1859* | Current | Current |
| Wairarapa and Hawke's Bay | Wellington and Hawke's Bay | 1853 | 1859 | County of Hawke and Wairarapa |
| Wairarapa North | Wellington and ? | 1881 | 1887 | Masterton |
| Wairarapa South | Wellington | 1881 | 1887 | Wairarapa |
| Wairau | Marlborough | 1853 | 1938 | Marlborough |
| Waitakere | Auckland | 1946 | 2014 | Kelston |
| Waitaki | Otago and Canterbury | 1871 | Current | Current |
| Waitemata | Auckland | 1871 | 1978 | Helensville |
| Waitomo | Waikato and | 1919 | 1972 | King Country |
| Waitotara | Taranaki | 1881 | 1996 | |
| Wakanui | Canterbury | 1881 | 1887 | |
| Wakatipu | Otago | 1871 | 1928 | Central Otago |
| Wallace | Southland | 1858 | 1996 | Clutha-Southland electorate |
| Wanganui and Rangitikei | Taranaki and Manawatū-Whanganui | 1853 | 1960 | Rangitikei and Wanganui |
| Wellington | Wellington | 1853 | 1905 | |
| Wellington Central | Wellington | 1905 | Current | Current |
| Wellington Country | Wellington | 1853 | 1881 | |
| Wellington East | Wellington | 1887 | 1946 | Miramar |
| Wellington-Karori | Wellington | 1993 | 1996 | Wellington Central |
| Wellington North | Wellington | 1905 | 1946 | |
| Wellington South | Wellington | 1881 | 1946 | Island Bay |
| Wellington South and Suburbs | Wellington | 1887 | 1890 | |
| Wellington Suburbs | Wellington | 1893 | 1946 | Onslow |
| Wellington Suburbs and Country | Wellington | 1911 | 1919 | Wellington Suburbs and Otaki |
| Wellington West | Wellington | 1938 | 1946 | Karori |
| West Auckland | Auckland | 1984 | 1993 | Henderson |
| West Coast | West Coast | 1972 | 1996 | West Coast-Tasman |
| West Coast-Tasman | West Coast and Tasman | 1996 | Current | Current |
| Western Hutt | Wellington | 1969 | 1996 | Hutt South and Ohariu-Belmont |
| Westland | West Coast | 1866 | 1972 | West Coast and Tasman |
| Westland North | West Coast | 1868 | 1870 | Grey Valley, Buller and Waimea |
| Westland South | West Coast | 1868 | 1870 | |
| Whanganui (formerly Wanganui) | Manawatū-Whanganui and Taranaki | 1860 | Current | Current |
| Whangaparāoa | Auckland | 2020 | Current | Current |
| Whangārei (formerly Whangarei) | Northland | 1972 | Current | Current |
| Wigram | Canterbury | 1969 | Current | Current |
| Woodville | Manawatū-Whanganui | 1887 | 1890 | |
| Yaldhurst | Canterbury | 1978 | 1996 | Ilam |

## Māori electorates

The first four Māori electorates were established for special elections in 1868, during the term of the fourth parliament. These four seats remained until the country's change to a mixed-member proportional system in 1996, when a large number of general electorate seats were changed as well.
| Electorate name | Area | Established | Abolished | Replaced with |
| Northern Maori | Northland and Auckland | 1868 | 1996 | Te Tai Tokerau |
| Eastern Maori | Waikato, Bay of Plenty and Gisborne | 1868 | 1996 | Te Tai Rawhiti and Te Puku O Te Whenua |
| Western Maori | Taranaki, Manawatū-Whanganui | 1868 | 1996 | Te Tai Hauāuru and Te Puku O Te Whenua |
| Southern Maori | South Island and Stewart Island | 1868 | 1996 | Te Tai Tonga and Te Puku O Te Whenua |
| Hauraki | Auckland and Waikato | 1999 | 2002 | Tāmaki Makaurau and Tainui |
| Tainui | Auckland and Waikato | 2002 | 2008 | Hauraki-Waikato |
| Te Puku O Te Whenua | Lower North Island | 1996 | 1999 | Ikaroa-Rāwhiti |
| Te Tai Rawhiti | Bay of Plenty, Gisborne and Waikato | 1996 | 1999 | Waiariki and Ikaroa-Rāwhiti |

## Mining electorates

The gold mining electorates were created to represent the significant mining populations of the West Coast and Otago in the 1860s.
| Electorate name | Area | Established | Abolished |
| Gold Field Towns | Queenstown, Arrowtown, Cromwell, Clyde, Alexandra, Dunstan Creek, Roxburgh, Hamiltons, Lawrence and Havelock | 1865 | 1870 |
| Gold Fields | Various gold mining areas across standard electorates in the province of Otago during the Otago gold rush | 1862 | 1870 |
| Westland Boroughs | Greymouth and Hokitika boroughs | 1867 | 1870 |