Wellington Bays (New Zealand electorate)

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Wellington Bays
Single-member general constituency for the New ZealandHouse of Representatives
Wellington Bays 2025 electorate boundaries.svg
Formation2026
Region Wellington
Chatham Islands
CharacterUrban
Term3 years
Member for Wellington Bays

Wellington Bays will be a future parliamentary electorate in the next New Zealand general election. [1] It will replace the Rongotai electorate. [2] The electorate will be used from 2026 onwards. [3]

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Population centres

The Wellington Bays electorate covers Wellington’s southern and eastern coastal suburbs from Ōwhiro Bay and Island Bay around Houghton Bay, Lyall Bay, Rongotai and Kilbirnie, across the Miramar Peninsula (Strathmore Park, Seatoun, Breaker Bay, Miramar) and back via Evans Bay to Hataitai, with parts of Roseneath, Berhampore and Newtown, plus the airport and the Chatham Islands. [4]

History

Wellington Bays will be a future parliamentary electorate in the next New Zealand general election. [1] It will replace the Rongotai electorate. [2] The electorate will be used from 2026 onwards. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Report of the Representation Commission 2025" (PDF). Electoral Commission. Electoral Commission. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
  2. 1 2 "Call for Rongotai electorate to get its name back". 9 August 2025. Retrieved 15 August 2025.
  3. 1 2 "Electorate boundaries finalised". Elections. Retrieved 15 August 2025.
  4. ↑ Natanahira, Tuwhenuaroa; Online, Māori news journalist in Parliament RNZ (8 August 2025). "From new names to new boundaries: Here's what's happening to your voting electorate". RNZ. Retrieved 22 August 2025.
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