Tarawera was a New Zealand parliamentary electorate in the Bay of Plenty from 1978 to 1996.
[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.
[3] In the 1978 election, the Tarawera electorate was won by Ian McLean.
[4] McLean retired at the 1990 election and was replaced by Max Bradford.