Awarua (New Zealand electorate)

Awarua was a New Zealand parliamentary electorate from 1881 to 1996.

Population centres

The previous electoral redistribution was undertaken in 1875 for the 1875–76 election. In the six years since, New Zealand's European population had increased by 65%. In the 1881 electoral redistribution, the House of Representatives increased the number of European representatives to 91 (up from 84 since the 1875–76 election). The number of Māori electorates was held at four. The House further decided that electorates should not have more than one representative, which led to 22 new electorates being formed, including Awarua, and two electorates that had previously been abolished to be recreated. This necessitated a major disruption to existing boundaries.^[1]

This electorate was in the rural part of Southland. In its original form, it covered the area around the town of Invercargill, which had its own electorate. Bluff fell into Awarua, and all of Stewart Island / Rakiura.^[2] On the mainland, Awarua had taken area from Riverton (which was abolished) and from Mataura (which moved to the east and north). Stewart Island had previously belonged to Wallace.^[3]

History

The electorate was established in 1881. It was represented by the Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward from 1887 to 1919. Philip De La Perrelle announced his retirement due to ill health in August 1935.^[4] He died within days of the 1935 election^[5] and was succeeded by James Hargest.^[6]

In the 1996 election, the first MMP election, the electorate was absorbed into the adjacent Invercargill electorate.

Members of Parliament

Key

Independent Liberal Reform United National Labour

Election	Winner
1881 election		James Joyce
1884 election		James Joyce
1887 election		Joseph Ward
1890 election
1893 election
1896 election
1897 by-election
1899 election
1902 election
1905 election
1908 election
1911 election
1914 election
1919 election		John Hamilton
1922 election		Philip De La Perrelle
1925 election		John Hamilton
1928 election		Philip De La Perrelle
1931 election		Philip De La Perrelle
1935 election		James Hargest¹
1935 election
1938 election
1943 election
1944 by-election		George Herron
1946 election
1949 election
1951 election
1954 election
1957 election		Gordon Grieve
1960 election
1963 election
1966 election
1969 election		Hugh Templeton
1972 election		Aubrey Begg
1975 election		Rex Austin
1978 election
1981 election
1984 election
1987 election		Jeff Grant
1990 election		Jeff Grant
1993 election		Eric Roy
(Electorate abolished 1996)

¹James Hargest was originally an Independent supporter of the Reform Party. He joined the National Party in 1936.

Election results

1931 election

General election, 1931: Awarua^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	United	Philip De La Perrelle	4,645	65.04	+10.38
	Independent	Norman McIntyre^[8]	2,497	34.96
Majority			2,148	30.08	+17.47
Informal votes			134	1.84	+0.95
Turnout			7,276	83.82	-9.98
Registered electors			8,681

1928 election

General election, 1928: Awarua^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	United	Philip De La Perrelle	4,358	54.66	+6.09
	Reform	John Hamilton	3,353	42.05	-9.37
	Labour	William Denham	262	3.29
Majority			1,005	12.61	+9.75
Informal votes			72	0.89	+0.49
Turnout			8,045	93.80	-0.25
Registered electors			8,577

1925 election

General election, 1925: Awarua^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Reform	John Hamilton	3,962	51.43	+2.81
	Liberal	Philip De La Perrelle	3,742	48.57	-0.76
Majority			220	2.86	+2.14
Informal votes			31	0.40
Turnout			7,704	94.04	+4.39
Registered electors			8,192

1922 election

General election, 1922: Awarua^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Philip De La Perrelle	3,531	49.33
	Reform	John Hamilton	3,480	48.62
	Independent	Norman McIntyre^[12]	147	2.05
Majority			51	0.71
Turnout			7,158	89.65
Registered electors			7,984

1899 election

General election, 1899: Awarua^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Joseph Ward	2,417	77.92	+14.06
	Conservative	W. T. Murray^[14]	685	22.08
Majority			1,732	55.83	+28.12
Turnout			3,102	76.37
Registered electors			4,062

1897 by-election

Awarua by-election, 1897^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Joseph Ward	2,066	69.42	+5.82
	Conservative	Cuthbert Cowan	910	30.58	-5.82
Turnout			2,976
Majority			1,156	38.84	+11.65

1896 election

General election, 1896: Awarua^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Joseph Ward	1,836	63.60
	Conservative	Cuthbert Cowan^[17]	1,051	36.40
Turnout			2,887	72.68
Majority			785	27.19
Registered electors			3,887

1884 election

General election, 1884: Awarua^[18]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	James Joyce	398	43.54
	Independent	John Lyon McDonald	311	34.03
	Independent	Andrew Kinross^[19]^[20]	74	8.10
	Independent	John Walker Mitchell	67	7.33
	Independent	Thomas Hodgkinson^[21]	64	7.00
Majority			87	9.52
Turnout			914

Notes

↑ McRobie 1989, pp. 45, 49.
↑ McRobie 1989, p. 49.
↑ McRobie 1989, pp. 43–48.
↑ "Not a Candidate". Auckland Star. LXVI (189). 12 August 1935. p. 9. Retrieved 15 November 2013.
↑ "Obituary". Auckland Star. LXVI (290). 7 December 1935. p. 10. Retrieved 15 November 2013.
↑ Wilson 1985, p. 203.
↑ The General Election, 1931. Government Printer. 1932. p. 1. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
↑ "Page 4 Advertisements Column 4". Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser. LV (5636). 1 December 1931. p. 4. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
↑ The General Election, 1928. Government Printer. 1929. p. 1. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
↑ "Awarua". The Evening Post. 116 (116). 12 November 1925. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
↑ "Awarua". Hawera & Normanby Star. XLII. 14 December 1922. p. 7. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
↑ "In Southland". The Evening Post. CIV (133). 2 December 1922. p. 8. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
↑ "The General Election, 1899". Wellington: Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives. 19 June 1900. p. 3. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
↑ "Farewell to Mr and Mrs W. T. Murray and Mr and Mrs B. W. R. Dunn". The Southland Times (14743). 12 September 1900. p. 3. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
↑ "The Awarua Election". The Timaru Herald. LX (2467). 7 August 1897. p. 3. Retrieved 19 June 2013.
↑ "The Awarua Election". LX (2467). The Timaru Herald. 7 August 1897. p. 3. Retrieved 19 June 2013.
↑ "The General Election". The Press. LIII (9565). 4 November 1896. p. 6. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
↑ "The General Election, 1884". National Library. 1884. p. 3. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
↑ "The Southland Times". The Southland Times (4990). 30 July 1884. p. 2. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
↑ Cyclopedia Company Limited (1905). "Old Colonists". The Cyclopedia of New Zealand : Otago & Southland Provincial Districts. Christchurch: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
↑ "The Southland Times". The Southland Times (4965). 26 June 1884. p. 2. Retrieved 3 August 2012.

References

McRobie, Alan (1989). Electoral Atlas of New Zealand. Wellington: GP Books. ISBN 0-477-01384-8.
Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.

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