Eastern Hutt

Eastern Hutt is a former New Zealand parliamentary electorate from 1978 to 1996.

The 1977 electoral redistribution was the most overtly political since the Representation Commission had been established through an amendment to the Representation Act in 1886, initiated by Muldoon's National Government.

[1] As part of the 1976 census, a large number of people failed to fill out an electoral re-registration card, and census staff had not been given the authority to insist on the card being completed.

Together with a northward shift of New Zealand's population, this resulted in five new electorates having to be created in the upper part of the North Island.

[7] Young retired at the 1990 election and was succeeded by Paul Swain.