Rangiriri (New Zealand electorate)
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Rangiriri was a rural New Zealand parliamentary electorate in the Waikato Region from 1978 to 1984.
Population centres
The 1977 electoral redistribution was the most overtly political since the Representation Commission had been established through an amendment to the Representation Act in 1886, initiated by Muldoon's National Government.{{sfn|McRobie |1989 |pp=8–9, 51, 119}} As part of the 1976 census, a large number of people failed to fill out an electoral re-registration card, and census staff had not been given the authority to insist on the card being completed. This had little practical effect for people on the general roll, but it transferred Māori to the general roll if the card was not handed in. Together with a northward shift of New Zealand's population, this resulted in five new electorates having to be created in the upper part of the North Island.{{sfn|McRobie|1989|p=119}} The electoral redistribution was very disruptive, and 22 electorates were abolished, while 27 electorates were newly created (including Rangiriri) or re-established. These changes came into effect for the {{NZ election link|1978}}.{{sfn|McRobie|1989|pp=115–120}} The electorate existed from 1978 to 1984: it replaced parts of {{NZ electorate link|Franklin}} and {{NZ electorate link|Raglan}} in 1978, and was replaced mostly by a recreated Raglan electorate, with the balance going to a recreated Franklin in the 1983 electoral redistribution.{{sfn|McRobie|1989|pp=118–123}}
Population centres for those six years included Pukekohe, Meremere, Huntly, and Ngāruawāhia.{{sfn|McRobie|1989|p=119}}
History
In the 1978 election, the Rangiriri electorate was won by future National minister Bill Birch, who had been MP for the Franklin electorate since the {{NZ election link|1972}}. When Rangiriri was abolished for the 1984 election, Birch transferred back to the Franklin electorate.{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=184}}
=Member of Parliament=
Key
{{Party index link|New Zealand National Party}}
| class=wikitable |
| width=100 | Election
! width=175 colspan=2 | Winner |
|---|
| {{NZ election link|1978}}
| rowspan=2 {{party color cell|New Zealand National Party|5px}} | rowspan=2| Bill Birch |
| {{NZ election link|1981}} |
| colspan=3 align=center|Electorate abolished 1984; see {{NZ electorate link|Raglan}} and {{NZ electorate link|Franklin}} |
Election results
=1981 election=
{{Election box begin | title=1981 general election: Rangiriri{{sfn|Norton|1988|pp=328}}
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = New Zealand National Party
|candidate = Bill Birch
|votes = 8,148
|percentage = 46.83
|change = -0.81
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = New Zealand Labour Party
|candidate = Roy Haywood
|votes = 5,144
|percentage = 29.56
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Social Credit Party (New Zealand)
|candidate = Ron Gilberd
|votes = 4,105
|percentage = 23.59
|change = +6.64
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 3,004
|percentage = 17.26
|change = +3.60
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 17,397
|percentage = 87.33
|change = +19.16
}}
{{Election box Registered electors
|reg. electors = 19,919
}}
{{Election box end}}
=1978 election=
{{Election box begin | title=1978 general election: Rangiriri{{sfn|Norton|1988|pp=328}}
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = New Zealand National Party
|candidate = Bill Birch
|votes = 7,934
|percentage = 47.64
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = New Zealand Labour Party
|candidate = Robert Frederick McKee
|votes = 5,658
|percentage = 33.97
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Social Credit Party (New Zealand)
|candidate = Ron Gilberd
|votes = 2,824
|percentage = 16.95
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Values Party
|candidate = John Cameron
|votes = 238
|percentage = 1.42
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 2,276
|percentage = 13.66
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 16,654
|percentage = 68.17
|change =
}}
{{Election box Registered electors
|reg. electors = 24,428
}}
{{Election box end}}
Notes
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References
- {{cite book |title=Electoral Atlas of New Zealand |last=McRobie |first=Alan |year=1989 |publisher=GP Books |location=Wellington |isbn=0-477-01384-8}}
- {{cite book |last= Wilson |first= James Oakley |title= New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 |edition= 4th |orig-year=First published in 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher=V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc= 154283103}}
- {{cite book |last = Norton |first = Clifford |title = New Zealand Parliamentary Election Results 1946–1987: Occasional Publications No 1, Department of Political Science |year = 1988 |publisher = Victoria University of Wellington |location = Wellington |isbn = 0-475-11200-8 }}
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