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Motueka is a former New Zealand parliamentary electorate. It was first created in 1860 and existed until the 1890 election, when it was abolished. For the 1896 election the Motueka electorate was recreated, and lasted until the 1946 election, when it was again abolished.

Population centres

In the 1860 electoral redistribution, the House of Representatives increased the number of representatives by 12, reflecting the immense population growth since the original electorates were established in 1853. The redistribution created 15 additional electorates with between one and three members, and Motueka was one of the single-member electorates.^[1] The electorates were distributed to provinces so that every province had at least two members. Within each province, the number of registered electors by electorate varied greatly.^[1] The Motueka electorate had 311 registered electors for the 1861 election.^[2]

Localities within the electorate were Motueka and Māpua.^[1] The Motueka electorate took in about half the area of the prior Motueka and Massacre Bay electorate; the other half had gone to the Collingwood electorate.^[3]

History

From the 3rd to the 10th New Zealand Parliament, Motueka was represented by five Members of Parliament (counting Monro, who was unseated following a petition). Curtis and Parker had previously represented the Motueka and Massacre Bay electorate. David Monro represented the electorate in 1871 until he was unseated by Parliament on a petition. Parker was followed by Richmond Hursthouse 1876–87, then John Kerr 1887–90.

The Motueka electorate was held for 14 years by Richard Hudson of the Reform Party from the 1914 election.^[4] In 1928, Hudson was unexpectedly beaten by 24-year-old George Black of the United Party.^[5]^[6] The Reform Party looked for potential candidates to win back the electorate, and a young farmer who was not even a member, Keith Holyoake, was suggested.^[6] Holyoake, who had been saving money to go overseas, was chosen in June 1931 from five candidates to contest Motueka, and his savings went into the election campaign instead.^[6]^[7] Meanwhile, there was a desire by parts of the United Party to enter into a coalition with the Reform Party to avoid vote splitting on the centre-right, but it was not until September that the United–Reform Coalition was announced.^[8]

Black had voted with the Labour Party in March 1931 on the Finance Bill and was expelled from the United Party the following day, thus becoming an Independent.^[9] At the 1931 election, Black beat Holyoake.^[10] In October 1932, Black committed suicide,^[11]^[12] and this caused the 1932 Motueka by-election, which was won by future prime minister Holyoake.^[6]

Holyoake was defeated in 1938 by Jerry Skinner,^[13] who was a likely Labour leader if he had not died prematurely.^[14]

Members of Parliament

Key

Independent	Liberal	Reform
United	National	Labour

Election	Winner
1861 election		Herbert Curtis
1866 election		Charles Parker
1871 election		David Monro
1871^{[nb 1]}		Charles Parker (2nd period)
1876 election		Richmond Hursthouse
1879 election
1881 election
1884 election
1887 election		John Kerr^[16]
(Electorate abolished, 1890–1896)
1896 election		Roderick McKenzie
1899 election
1902 election
1905 election
1908 election
1911 election
1914 election		Richard Hudson
1919 election
1922 election
1925 election
1928 election		George Black^{[nb 2]}
1928 election
1931 election
1932 by-election		Keith Holyoake
1935 election
1935 election
1938 election		Jerry Skinner
1943 election		Jerry Skinner
(Electorate abolished 1946)

Table footnotes:

^ Charles Parker declared elected on petition, 20 September 1871^[15]
^ George Black became an Independent in March 1931^[9]

Election results

1943 election

1943 general election: Motueka^[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jerry Skinner	4,260	51.30	−2.86
	National	John Robert Haldane	3,959	47.67
Informal votes			85	1.02	+0.18
Majority			301	3.62	−5.54
Turnout			8,304	92.32	−1.68
Registered electors			8,994

1938 election

1938 general election: Motueka^[18]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jerry Skinner	5,142	54.16
	National	Keith Holyoake	4,272	44.99	−6.41
Informal votes			80	0.84	−0.02
Majority			870	9.16
Turnout			9,494	94.00	+2.06
Registered electors			10,099

1935 election

1935 general election: Motueka^[19]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Reform	Keith Holyoake	5,115	51.40	+2.36
	Labour	Rubert York	4,835	48.59
Informal votes			86	0.86
Majority			280	2.81	−5.73
Turnout			9,950	91.94	+2.91
Registered electors			10,822

1932 by-election

1932 Motueka by-election^[20]^[21]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Reform	Keith Holyoake	3,887	49.04	+2.34
	Labour	Paddy Webb	3,210	40.50
	Liberal–Labour	Roderick McKenzie	829	10.46
Majority			677	8.54	+1.95
Turnout			7,926	89.03	+0.52
Registered electors			8,903
	Reform gain from Independent		Swing

1931 election

1931 general election: Motueka^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	George Black	4,180	53.30	−0.75
	Reform	Keith Holyoake	3,663	46.70
Majority			517	6.59	−1.50
Informal votes			37	0.47	−0.21
Turnout			7,880	88.51	−1.71
Registered electors			8,903

1928 election

1928 general election: Motueka^[22]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United	George Black	4,095	54.05
	Reform	Richard Hudson	3,482	45.95	−11.86
Majority			613	8.09	−23.71
Informal votes			52	0.68	+0.23
Turnout			7,629	90.22	−0.85
Registered electors			8,456

1925 election

1925 general election: Motueka^[23]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Reform	Richard Hudson	4,356	65.90
	Labour	Mark Fagan	2,254	34.10
Majority			2,102	31.80
Informal votes			30	0.45
Turnout			6,640	91.07
Registered electors			7,291

1914 election

1914 general election: Motueka^[24]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Reform	Richard Hudson	2,760	56.12
	Liberal	Roderick McKenzie	2,158	43.88
Majority			602	12.24
Informal votes			16	0.32
Turnout			4,934	82.44
Registered electors			5,985

1899 election

1899 general election: Motueka^[25]^[26]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Roderick McKenzie	2,078	67.25	+23.39
	Conservative	Walter Moffatt	1,012	32.75
Majority			1,066	34.50	+30.27
Turnout			3,090	72.10	−11.10
Registered electors			4,286

1896 election

1896 general election: Motueka^[27]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Roderick McKenzie	1,306	43.85
	Conservative	Richmond Hursthouse	1,180	39.62
	Liberal	William Norris Franklyn^[28]	492	16.52
Majority			126	4.23
Informal votes			7	0.23
Registered electors			3,588
Turnout			2,985	83.19

1887 election

1887 general election: Motueka^[29]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	John Kerr	675	55.83
	Independent	Richmond Hursthouse	534	44.17
Majority			141	11.66
Turnout			1,209	69.56
Registered electors			1,738

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c McRobie 1989, p. 35.
^ McRobie 1989, p. 36.
^ McRobie 1989, pp. 31, 35.
^ Wilson 1985, p. 206.
^ Wilson 1985, p. 184.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Stade, Karen (12 August 2013). "Kiwi Keith - Portrait of a PM". The Nelson Mail. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
^ "Motueka Seat". The Evening Post. Vol. CXI, no. 147. 24 June 1931. p. 10. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
^ "Coalition Announced". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. LXVIII, no. 20982. 19 September 1931. p. 10. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Expelled by Party". The Evening Post. Vol. CXI, no. 68. 21 March 1931. p. 10. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
^ ^a ^b The General Election, 1931. Government Printer. 1932. p. 3. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
^ "Obituary". The Evening Post. Vol. CXIV, no. 94. 18 October 1932. p. 11. Retrieved 15 August 2011.
^ "Death by Poisoning". The Evening Post. Vol. CXIV, no. 101. 26 October 1932. p. 10. Retrieved 15 August 2011.
^ Wilson 1985, p. 234.
^ Brown, Bruce. "Nordmeyer, Arnold Henry". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
^ "Wellington Independent (editorial)". Wellington Independent. Vol. XXVI, no. 3309. 22 September 1871. p. 2. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
^ Cyclopedia Company Limited (1906). "Present And Past Members Of Parliament". The Cyclopedia of New Zealand : Nelson, Marlborough & Westland Provincial Districts. Christchurch. Retrieved 26 June 2010.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ "The General Election, 1943". National Library. 1944. p. 11. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
^ "The General Election, 1938". National Library. 1939. pp. 1–6. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
^ The General Election, 1935. National Library. 1936. pp. 1–35. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
^ "Govt. wins Motueka by-election". Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle. Vol. XXVIII, no. 1402. 6 December 1932. p. 2. Retrieved 15 August 2011.
^ "Nelson and Motueka". The Evening Post. Vol. CXX, no. 97. 21 October 1935. p. 11. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
^ The General Election, 1928. Government Printer. 1929. p. 4. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
^ Skinner, W. A. G. (1926). The General Election, 1925. Government Printer. p. 4. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
^ Hislop, J. (1915). The General Election, 1914. National Library. pp. 16f. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
^ "The General Election, 1899". Wellington: Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives. 19 June 1900. p. 1. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
^ "Motueka Electorate". Colonist. Vol. XLIII, no. 9651. 2 December 1899. p. 4. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
^ "Page 2 Advertisements Column 2". Colonist. Vol. XL, no. 8744. 15 December 1896. p. 2. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
^ Scholefield 1940, pp. 280.
^ Cooper, G. S. (1887). The General Election, 1887. National Library. p. 2. Retrieved 15 March 2021.

References

McRobie, Alan (1989). Electoral Atlas of New Zealand. Wellington: GP Books. ISBN 0-477-01384-8.
Scholefield, Guy, ed. (1940). A Dictionary of New Zealand Biography : A–L (PDF). Vol. I. Wellington: Department of Internal Affairs. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.

[16] Charles Parker declared elected on petition, 20 September 1871^[15]

[18] George Black became an Independent in March 1931^[9]

[FOOTNOTEMcRobie198935-1] McRobie 1989, p. 35.

[FOOTNOTEMcRobie198936-2] McRobie 1989, p. 36.

[FOOTNOTEMcRobie198931,_35-3] McRobie 1989, pp. 31, 35.

[FOOTNOTEWilson1985206-4] Wilson 1985, p. 206.

[FOOTNOTEWilson1985184-5] Wilson 1985, p. 184.

[NM_Kiwi_Keith-6] Stade, Karen (12 August 2013). "Kiwi Keith - Portrait of a PM". The Nelson Mail. Retrieved 25 November 2014.

[7] "Motueka Seat". The Evening Post. Vol. CXI, no. 147. 24 June 1931. p. 10. Retrieved 25 November 2014.

[NZH_Coalition_Announced-8] "Coalition Announced". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. LXVIII, no. 20982. 19 September 1931. p. 10. Retrieved 25 November 2014.

[EP_Black_expelled-9] "Expelled by Party". The Evening Post. Vol. CXI, no. 68. 21 March 1931. p. 10. Retrieved 25 November 2014.

[1931_election-10] The General Election, 1931. Government Printer. 1932. p. 3. Retrieved 2 November 2014.

[11] "Obituary". The Evening Post. Vol. CXIV, no. 94. 18 October 1932. p. 11. Retrieved 15 August 2011.

[12] "Death by Poisoning". The Evening Post. Vol. CXIV, no. 101. 26 October 1932. p. 10. Retrieved 15 August 2011.

[FOOTNOTEWilson1985234-13] Wilson 1985, p. 234.

[DNZB_Nordmeyer-14] Brown, Bruce. "Nordmeyer, Arnold Henry". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 6 October 2012.

[15] "Wellington Independent (editorial)". Wellington Independent. Vol. XXVI, no. 3309. 22 September 1871. p. 2. Retrieved 7 May 2013.

[NZETC_Kerr-17] Cyclopedia Company Limited (1906). "Present And Past Members Of Parliament". The Cyclopedia of New Zealand : Nelson, Marlborough & Westland Provincial Districts. Christchurch. Retrieved 26 June 2010.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[19] "The General Election, 1943". National Library. 1944. p. 11. Retrieved 28 March 2014.

[20] "The General Election, 1938". National Library. 1939. pp. 1–6. Retrieved 8 February 2012.

[The_General_Election_1935-21] The General Election, 1935. National Library. 1936. pp. 1–35. Retrieved 3 August 2013.

[22] "Govt. wins Motueka by-election". Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle. Vol. XXVIII, no. 1402. 6 December 1932. p. 2. Retrieved 15 August 2011.

[By-election_result-23] "Nelson and Motueka". The Evening Post. Vol. CXX, no. 97. 21 October 1935. p. 11. Retrieved 24 November 2014.

[1928_election-24] The General Election, 1928. Government Printer. 1929. p. 4. Retrieved 4 December 2013.

[1925_election-25] Skinner, W. A. G. (1926). The General Election, 1925. Government Printer. p. 4. Retrieved 13 February 2016.

[1914_election-26] Hislop, J. (1915). The General Election, 1914. National Library. pp. 16f. Retrieved 14 July 2015.

[27] "The General Election, 1899". Wellington: Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives. 19 June 1900. p. 1. Retrieved 12 February 2014.

[28] "Motueka Electorate". Colonist. Vol. XLIII, no. 9651. 2 December 1899. p. 4. Retrieved 15 February 2014.

[29] "Page 2 Advertisements Column 2". Colonist. Vol. XL, no. 8744. 15 December 1896. p. 2. Retrieved 13 January 2014.

[FOOTNOTEScholefield1940280-30] Scholefield 1940, pp. 280.

[1887_election-31] Cooper, G. S. (1887). The General Election, 1887. National Library. p. 2. Retrieved 15 March 2021.

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Motueka (New Zealand electorate)

Population centres

History

Members of Parliament

Election results

1943 election

1938 election

1935 election

1932 by-election

1931 election

1928 election

1925 election

1914 election

1899 election

1896 election

1887 election

Notes

References

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