Kaipara is a former New Zealand parliamentary electorate north of Auckland that existed from 1902 to 1946, and from 1978 to 1996.
In 1902, changes to the country quota affected the three-member electorates in the four main centres.
[4] In the 1911 election, Stallworthy was beaten by Gordon Coates, who was Prime Minister from 1925 to 1928, and who held the electorate until he died in May 1943.
[5] As a (belated) wartime general election was to be held shortly, a by-election was postponed through the By-elections Postponement Act 1943,[6] and Clifton Webb succeeded Coates at the general election in September 1943.
Lockwood Smith then transferred to Rodney, and later became the Speaker of the House.