Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jun 23, 2024 7:28:34 GMT 12
John McLean: NEW ZEALAND PARLIAMENT'S MAORI SEATS.
Te Pāti Māori’s intransigent cry-bully pottiness is nicely encapsulated in the Maori seats. Despite constant denunciations of New Zealand democracy and its treatment of Māori, the Māori Party did rather nicely thank-you out of the Māori seats in the last election, winning six out of the seven. That result gave Te Pāti Māori about 7.4% of the seats in Parliament, despite having received only about 3% of the overall votes cast in New Zealand’s election.
The Māori seats have always been good to Te Pāti Māori. In 2008, for example, Te Pāti Māori won five of the seven Māori seats (4.2% of total Parliamentary seats) despite receiving only 2.39% of the party vote.
(There are currently 33 Māori Members of Parliament across all six parties in Parliament. That’s about a quarter of all MPs, with people identifying as Māori in New Zealand comprising about 17% of the overall population. Māori are therefore proportionately over-represented in Parliament, on a per capita basis.)
With the threshold for representation in Parliament without winning an electorate being 5%, Te Pāti Māori would not be represented in Parliament without the Māori electorates.
What future for the Māori seats?.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/06/john-mclean-new-zealand-parliaments.html
Te Pāti Māori’s intransigent cry-bully pottiness is nicely encapsulated in the Maori seats. Despite constant denunciations of New Zealand democracy and its treatment of Māori, the Māori Party did rather nicely thank-you out of the Māori seats in the last election, winning six out of the seven. That result gave Te Pāti Māori about 7.4% of the seats in Parliament, despite having received only about 3% of the overall votes cast in New Zealand’s election.
The Māori seats have always been good to Te Pāti Māori. In 2008, for example, Te Pāti Māori won five of the seven Māori seats (4.2% of total Parliamentary seats) despite receiving only 2.39% of the party vote.
(There are currently 33 Māori Members of Parliament across all six parties in Parliament. That’s about a quarter of all MPs, with people identifying as Māori in New Zealand comprising about 17% of the overall population. Māori are therefore proportionately over-represented in Parliament, on a per capita basis.)
With the threshold for representation in Parliament without winning an electorate being 5%, Te Pāti Māori would not be represented in Parliament without the Māori electorates.
What future for the Māori seats?.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/06/john-mclean-new-zealand-parliaments.html