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    Selwyn is a current electorate in the New Zealand House of Representatives, composed of towns on the outskirts of Christchurch city. The electorate was...
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  • Selwyn River after Bishop Selwyn, New Zealand's first Anglican Bishop. This township, the district and an electorate later used the same name. Selwyn...
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  • Territories Selwyn, Ontario, a township Selwyn District, rural district in central Canterbury, New Zealand Selwyn (New Zealand electorate), one of the...
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    Rangitata is an electorate in the South Island of New Zealand. It first existed for two parliamentary terms in the late 19th century and was re-established...
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  • Irwell was a small rural township in Canterbury, New Zealand on the intersection of Leeston and Selwyn Lake Roads. All that remains are the former school...
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    shore of Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora in the Selwyn District of New Zealand. Lower Selwyn Huts is a smaller settlement 2.8 km further south. The settlement...
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    An electorate or electoral district (Māori: rohe pōti) is a geographic constituency used for electing a member (MP) to the New Zealand Parliament. The...
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    Ilam is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate. Formed for the 1996 election, it was held by Gerry Brownlee of the National Party until the 2020 election...
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  • Rakaia was a New Zealand parliamentary electorate in the Canterbury region from 1972 to 1978 and 1993 to 2008. The seat was held by former Prime Minister...
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    Tauwharekākaho) is the seat and largest town in the Selwyn District, in the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island. It is located on the Canterbury...
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    Waimakariri is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, formed for the 1996 election and returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives...
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  • Banks Peninsula is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate which initially existed from 1996 to 2008, and was later recreated in 2020 ahead of the 2020...
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    Lincoln (Māori: Rīkona) is a town in the Selwyn District, in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand's South Island. The town is located on the Canterbury...
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  • Ellesmere was a parliamentary electorate in the Canterbury region of New Zealand. It existed for two periods between 1861 and 1928 and was represented...
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    Kowai Pass until 1880, is a small town in the Selwyn District of Canterbury, in the South Island, of New Zealand. Springfield is situated in the foothills...
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    Nicola Grigg (category New Zealand MPs for South Island electorates)
    Anna Grigg MP is a New Zealand politician and Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives representing the Selwyn electorate since October 2020...
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  • Thumbnail for Waitaki (New Zealand electorate)
    Waitaki is an electorate for the New Zealand House of Representatives that crosses the boundary of North Otago and South Canterbury towns on the East Coast...
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    (formerly Malvern) is a small village located in the Selwyn District of the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island, near the Waimakariri Gorge. Sheffield...
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    National Governments. He represented the Selwyn electorate in the 44th Parliament and the Banks Peninsula electorate in the 45th Parliament. He served as...
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    Reuben Davidson (category New Zealand MPs for Christchurch electorates)
    Chris Hipkins. "SelwynElectorate Profile". New Zealand Parliament. 27 April 2021. Retrieved 16 October 2023. "Reuben Davidson". New Zealand Labour Party...
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  • Ashburton was a New Zealand electorate, first created in 1881 and centred on the South Island town of Ashburton. The previous electoral redistribution...
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  • Thumbnail for 1994 Selwyn by-election
    Selwyn by-election, a by-election in the New Zealand electorate of Selwyn – a predominantly rural district in the Canterbury Plains in New Zealand's South...
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    Selwyn District is a predominantly rural district in central Canterbury, on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island. It is named after the Selwyn...
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    received the new name of Waitaki Rakaia received the new name of Selwyn Banks Peninsula received the new name of Port Hills Other electorates in the lower...
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    an electorate. The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "gravelly stream" for Waikirikiri. "Place name detail: Selwyn River/Waikirikiri"...
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    Member of Parliament for Selwyn from 2008 to 2020, when she retired. Adams' prior career was as a lawyer. She served as New Zealand's Minister for the Environment...
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    with two seats after Rawiri Waititi won the Waiariki electorate. Populist nationalist party New Zealand First, led by Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters...
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  • Thumbnail for Port Hills (New Zealand electorate)
    Port Hills was a parliamentary electorate of New Zealand that existed for the 2008 through 2017 general elections. Ruth Dyson of the Labour Party had...
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    the smaller New Zealand First party to form a coalition. New Zealand First won 17 seats—including sweeping every single Māori electorate, all of which...
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    Darfield is a town in the Selwyn District of the South Island of New Zealand. It is 35 kilometres west of Christchurch. Its population is 3,150 as of June...
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