Wairarapa South was a New Zealand parliamentary electorate from 1881 to 1887.
The previous electoral redistribution was undertaken in 1875 for the 1875–1876 election.
One of the incumbents, George Beetham, successfully stood in 1881 in the Wairarapa North electorate.
[3] The other incumbent, Henry Bunny, who had represented Wairarapa since a by-election in 1865,[4] contested the Wairarapa South electorate in 1881 and was challenged by Walter Clarke Buchanan and Burton Boys.
[7] In 1887, Buchanan won the reconstituted Wairarapa electorate,[8] again defeating Bunny.