Tukituki (electorate)

Tukituki was created ahead of the change to mixed-member proportional (MMP) voting at the 1996 election; it is a merger of the old Hastings seat with Central Hawke's Bay District. Tukituki centres on the southern Hawke's Bay region, with the bulk of the electorate's population coming from the city of Hastings, with the rural towns of Havelock North, Flaxmere, Clive and Ōtāne, and the coastal communities of Haumoana, Te Awanga, Ocean Beach and Waimārama drafted in to bring the electorate up to the required population. In 2008, a general northwards tug on boundaries in the Taranaki, Manawatū-Whanganui and Hawke's Bay regions saw Waipukurau and Waipawa moved into the Wairarapa electorate, in exchange for which Tukituki gained the suburbs and towns around Cape Kidnappers from the Napier electorate. No boundary adjustments were undertaken in the subsequent 2013/14 and 2020 redistributions. In the 2025 boundary review, the electorate would lose the rural communities north of the Ngaruroro River to . ==History==

Labour's Rick Barker, who had represented Hastings since 1993 was elected as MP for Tukituki, and re-elected twice before a large provincial swing to the National Party in 2005 cost Barker his seat. first contested the Tukituki electorate in the , but Barker comfortably held the electorate. Ranked 47th on National's party list, Foss did not enter Parliament. Foss defeated the incumbent in the . On 14 December 2016, Foss announced that he would quit politics at the 2017 general election. The electorate was won at the election by Lawrence Yule, retaining it for the National Party. Anna Lorck narrowly took the seat off of Yule after the 2020 election, returning the seat to Labour after 15 years with National. The 2023 election saw Catherine Wedd re-capture the electorate back from Labour for National. Hawke's Bay Today described it as part of a "blue wave" across Hawke's Bay; Wedd overturned a 1,590 Labour majority, with a margin of 10,118 votes. Members of Parliament Key List MPs Members of Parliament elected from party lists in elections where that person also unsuccessfully contested the Tukituki electorate. Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at general elections. ==Election results==

2026 election The next election will be held on 7 November 2026. Candidates for Tukituki are listed at Candidates in the 2026 New Zealand general election by electorate § Tukituki. Official results will be available after 27 November 2026. 2023 election 2020 election 2017 election 2014 election 2011 election Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 44,708 2008 election 2005 election 1999 election Refer to Candidates in the New Zealand general election 1999 by electorate#Tukituki for a list of candidates. ==Notes==