Heretaunga

Heretaunga is a former New Zealand Parliamentary electorate, in the city of Upper Hutt. The electorate was urban, and was based on Heretaunga a suburb of Upper Hutt in the northern Hutt Valley. The electorate was created in 1954, and lasted to 1996, with the introduction of MMP. Up to 1990 when it was won by Peter McCardle for National, Heretaunga had been held by Labour. In 1993, McCardle held the seat against a challenge from Labour candidate Heather Simpson (who went on to be Helen Clark's Chief of Staff, known as H2 - Clark was H1). Then McCardle left National and joined New Zealand First.