Gold Field Towns (New Zealand electorate)

The Gold Field Towns electorate was in 1865, with the first (and only) elections in the following year, and it returned one member.

A unique feature of the Gold Field Towns electorate was that it covered ten separate towns within the area of the Gold Fields, which in turn was overlaid of a number of general electorates in the Otago area.

The first mining electorate, Gold Fields, had been created in 1862 and had been superimposed on most of Otago and Southland.

[4] The Gold Field Towns electorate existed from 1866 to 1870 for the term of the 4th New Zealand Parliament.

[6] The 1866 election was contested by three candidates: James Benn Bradshaw, David Forsyth Main, and Henry Manders.

Saint Bathans , then more commonly known as Dunstan Creek, was one of ten towns covered by the Gold Field Towns electorate; no votes were cast at the local polling station in 1866