Wellington Bays (electorate)

Wellington Bays
Single-member general constituency for the New Zealand House of Representatives
Formation2026
RegionWellington
Chatham Islands
CharacterUrban
Term3 years
Member for Wellington Bays

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

Population centres

The Wellington Bays electorate covers Wellington’s southern and eastern coastal suburbs from Ōwhiro Bay and Island Bay around Houghton Bay, Melrose, Lyall Bay, Rongotai and Kilbirnie, the Miramar Peninsula suburbs of Strathmore Park, Seatoun, Breaker Bay, and Miramar and round Evans Bay to Hataitai, Roseneath, Berhampore, Newtown, Vogeltown, Mornington and Kingston. The re-created electorate further includes the former Wellington Central suburbs of Mount Cook and Brooklyn. As the electorate includes the Wellington Airport, it further includes the Chatham Islands as the main transport link to the islands.[4]

History

Wellington Bays will first be contested in the 2026 New Zealand general election.[1] It will replace the Rongotai electorate to accommodate expected population shifts in the Wellington region.[5] The electorate will be used from 2026 onwards.[3]

Candidates

2026

References

  1. ^ a b "Report of the Representation Commission 2025" (PDF). Electoral Commission. Electoral Commission. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
  2. ^ "Call for Rongotai electorate to get its name back". 9 August 2025. Retrieved 15 August 2025.
  3. ^ a b "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.
  5. ^ Report of the Representation Commission 2025 (PDF). Representation Commission. 8 August 2025. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-473-75233-0. Retrieved 16 September 2025.
  6. ^ "Labour selects CTU economist Craig Renney as Wellington Bays candidate". Radio New Zealand. 23 November 2025. Retrieved 23 November 2025.
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