Tainui was a New Zealand parliamentary Māori electorate. From the 2008 election the Hauraki-Waikato electorate replaced it.
The seat was held by Nanaia Mahuta of the Labour Party from 2002 to 2008. [1]
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The Tainui electorate was replaced by the Hauraki-Waikato electorate in 2008.
Key
| Election | Winner | |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 election | Nanaia Mahuta | |
| 2005 election | ||
No candidates that contested the Tainui electorate were returned as list MPs.
| 2005 general election: Ikaroa-Rāwhiti [2] | |||||||||
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| Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| Labour |  Nanaia Mahuta | 9,469 | 50.88 | +3.35 | 10,421 | 54.68 | +1.92 | ||
| Māori Party | Angeline Greensill | 7,609 | 40.88 | 5,184 | 27.20 | ||||
| Destiny | Hayden Solomon | 589 | 3.16 | 294 | 1.54 | ||||
| Independent | Andrew Pope | 308 | 1.65 | ||||||
| NZ First | 1,161 | 6.09 | -8.33 | ||||||
| National | 774 | 4.06 | +0.23 | ||||||
| Green | 518 | 2.72 | -7.20 | ||||||
| Legalise Cannabis | 144 | 0.76 | -2.16 | ||||||
| United Future | 73 | 0.38 | -1.92 | ||||||
| Progressive | 53 | 0.28 | -0.82 | ||||||
| ACT | 49 | 0.26 | -0.81 | ||||||
| Christian Heritage | 11 | 0.06 | -0.94 | ||||||
| Family Rights | 9 | 0.05 | |||||||
| Alliance | 6 | 0.03 | -3.34 | ||||||
| 99 MP | 5 | 0.03 | |||||||
| Democrats | 5 | 0.03 | |||||||
| RONZ | 4 | 0.02 | |||||||
| Direct Democracy | 2 | 0.01 | |||||||
| One NZ | 2 | 0.01 | |||||||
| Libertarianz | 1 | 0.01 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 637 | 343 | |||||||
| Total Valid votes | 18,612 | 19,059 | |||||||
| Labour hold | Majority | 1,860 | 9.99 | -12.97 | |||||
| 2002 general election: Tainui [3] | |||||||||
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| Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| Labour | Nanaia Mahuta | 7,098 | 47.52 | 8,007 | 52.75 | ||||
| Alliance | Willie Jackson | 3,668 | 24.56 | 511 | 3.37 | ||||
| Mana Māori Movement | Angeline Greensill | 1,839 | 12.31 | 811 | 5.34 | ||||
| National | Kevin Davis | 639 | 4.28 | 582 | 3.83 | ||||
| United Future | Lee Edmonds | 460 | 3.08 | 350 | 2.31 | ||||
| Progressive | Te Pare Joseph | 396 | 2.65 | 167 | 1.10 | ||||
| Christian Heritage | Albert Vahaakolo | 289 | 1.93 | 151 | 0.99 | ||||
| MAI | Mikaire Tuheke Sutton | 115 | 0.77 | ||||||
| NZ First | 2,189 | 14.42 | |||||||
| Green | 1,506 | 9.92 | |||||||
| Legalise Cannabis | 442 | 2.91 | |||||||
| ACT | 162 | 1.07 | |||||||
| ORNZ | 104 | 0.69 | |||||||
| One NZ | 10 | 0.07 | |||||||
| NMP | 4 | 0.03 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 432 | 182 | |||||||
| Total Valid votes | 14,936 | 15,178 | |||||||
| Labour win new seat | Majority | 3,430 | 22.96 | ||||||
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