Nikao–Panama

{{Short description|Electoral division in the Cook Islands}}

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|member=Vaine Mokoroa

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Nikao–Panama is a Cook Islands electoral division returning one member to the Cook Islands Parliament.

The electorate was created in 1981, when the Constitution Amendment (No. 9) Act 1980–1981{{cite web |url=http://www.paclii.org/ck/legis/num_act/ca9a198081295/ |title=Constitution Amendment (No 9) Act 1980–81 |publisher=PACLII |date= |accessdate=14 July 2020}} adjusted electorate boundaries and split the electorate of Te-au-o-tonga into four. In 1986 by the Constitution Amendment (No. 12) Act 1986 transferred the tapere of Atupa to Avatiu–Ruatonga–Palmerston.{{cite web |url=http://www.paclii.org/ck/legis/num_act/ca12a1986295/ |title=Constitution Amendment (No 12) Act 1986 |publisher=PACLII |date= |accessdate=14 July 2020}} It consists of the tapere of Pokoinu, Nikao, Puapuautu, Areanu, and Kaikaveka on the island of Rarotonga.