Te Puku O Te Whenua or "the belly of the land" was one of the five new New Zealand parliamentary Māori electorates created in 1996 for MMP.
The electorate included the following population centres: The electorate included the following rohe:[citation needed] Te Puku O Te Whenua, or the belly of the land, was one of the five new Māori electorates created for the 1996 election with the introduction of mixed-member proportional (MMP) representation, and which were all won by the Tight Five of the New Zealand First from Labour.
[1] In the 1999 election it was substantially replaced by Ikaroa-Rāwhiti.
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