Riverton was a parliamentary
electorate
Electorate may refer to:
* The people who are eligible to vote in an election, especially their number e.g. the term ''size of (the) electorate''
* The dominion of a prince-elector in the Holy Roman Empire until 1806
* An electoral district
...
in the
Southland region of New Zealand.
Population centres
The electorate included the town of
Riverton.
History
Riverton existed from 1866 to 1881. The first representative was
Donald Hankinson
Donald Hankinson (30 May 1832 – 6 November 1877) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament from Southland, New Zealand.
He represented the Riverton electorate from to 1870, when he resigned.
He was the son of Rev. Thomas Edwards Hankins ...
, who won the . Hankinson resigned on 2 April 1870, before the end of the parliamentary term.
The resulting was won by
Lauchlan McGillivray, who was confirmed by the voters at the . McGillivray was defeated at the
1876 election by Dr
Samuel Hodgkinson. At the next election in , Hodgkinson was in turn defeated by
Patrick McCaughan. At the end of the parliamentary term in 1881, McCaughan retired and the electorate was abolished.
Election results
The electorate was represented by four
Members of Parliament:
Key
Notes
References
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{{Historic electorates of New Zealand , state=collapsed
Historical electorates of New Zealand
Politics of the Southland Region
1865 establishments in New Zealand
1881 disestablishments in New Zealand