Eden (New Zealand electorate)

The 1870 electoral redistribution was undertaken by a parliamentary select committee based on population data from the 1867 census.

[1] The electorate was urban, and comprised a number of inner-city suburbs in the central-south part of Auckland.

He served three parliamentary terms until 1896, when he unsuccessfully contested the City of Auckland electorate.

Rex Mason won the resulting 1926 by-election, as the Reform Party vote was split between two candidates.

Premier and Attorney-General Frederick Whitaker stood unsuccessfully for Eden in 1879; as did John Kerr in 1871.