✶ Electorates · 2025 boundaries
Seventy-one
electorates.
Every voter is in one general electorate or one Māori electorate, never both, and elects one MP there by first-past-the-post. The 7 Māori electorates overlay the 64 general ones: Māori electors choose which roll to be on.
- 48North Island general
- 16South Island general (fixed by law)
- 7Māori electorates
- 49list seats on top
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Boundaries: Representation Commission, Stats NZ (CC BY 4.0).
Two rolls, one country
The Māori electorates
sit over the general ones.
Since 1867 Māori electors have been able to vote in Māori electorates. Today each Māori elector chooses a roll, so the country is mapped twice: 64 general electorates and 7 far larger Māori ones laid over the same land.
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How the map is drawn
Equal people,
unequal land.
After every five-yearly census the Representation Commission redraws the boundaries so each electorate has about the same population, within ±5%. The South Island always has 16 general electorates; the number in the North Island and the number of Māori electorates follow from their populations. After the 2023 census the North Island lost one, so 2026 has 71 electorates and 49 list seats (49 + 16 + 7 + 48 = 120).
Largest by land: Te Tai Tonga (151,727 km²), Te Tai Hauāuru (35,759 km²), West Coast-Tasman (32,759 km²). Smallest: Mt Albert (21 km²), Epsom (22 km²), Mt Roskill (22 km²).
Redrawn for 2026
| Before (2020–23) | From 2026 |
|---|---|
| New Lynn, Kelston, Te Atatū | Waitākere, Glendene, Henderson |
| Panmure-Ōtāhuhu | Ōtāhuhu |
| Bay of Plenty | Mount Maunganui |
| East Coast | East Cape |
| Ōtaki, Mana, Ōhāriu | Kenepuru, Kapiti |
| Wellington Central | Wellington North |
| Rongotai | Wellington Bays |
Main renames and mergers, from Wikipedia's summary of the Commission's final boundaries (8 August 2025); not checked against the Commission's report. 2023 results cannot be laid over these boundaries without re-counting at meshblock level, so this page does not show them.
The Māori roll
Seven seats,
one choice.
Māori seats date from 1867. Any elector of Māori descent can enrol on the general roll or the Māori roll; the Māori electorates' number is set from how many choose the Māori roll. Since 2025 electors can switch at any time except in the three months before a general election (the cut-off for 2026 was 6 August).
- 302,096Māori on the Māori roll, July 2026
- 255,627Māori on the general roll
- 3,633,546electors on the rolls (Commission feed)
Roll split as reported by RNZ, via Wikipedia; not checked against the Commission's enrolment statistics, which our reader could not open.