Kaikoura

Kaikōura (or Kaikoura before 2008) is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate, returning a single MP to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The current MP for Kaikōura is Colin King of the National Party. He has held this position since 2005. The Kaikōura electorate is one of the South Island's largest electorates, spanning the north-east of the island from Cook Strait in the north to the Ashley River / Rakahuri in the south. Its main towns are Blenheim and Kaikoura; other towns include Picton, Havelock, Cheviot, Hanmer Springs, Culverden, Amberley and Ashley. Kaikōura is one of the original 60 electorates drawn ahead of the change to Mixed Member Proportional voting in 1996. It was made up by merging together all of the old...