Rongotai (New Zealand electorate)

Rongotai is a New Zealand electorate, returning a single member to the House of Representatives of New Zealand. The current MP for Rongotai is Annette King of the Labour Party. She has held this position since 1996.

The Rongotai electorate is centred on the southern and eastern suburbs of Wellington City. It stretches from Miramar in the east to take in the suburbs of Rongotai, Kilbirnie, Lyall Bay and Hataitai and runs from the south coast at Island Bay up through the southern section of the Brooklyn Hill to an east-west border next to Wellington Hospital in Newtown. Because Wellington Airport is within Rongotai's boundaries, the constituency also contains the Chatham Islands including Waitangi. It is named after the suburb of Rongotai which is roughly in its centre. Other suburbs included Berhampore, Owhiro Bay, Seatoun, and Roseneath.

A revision after 1996 pulled the boundary southwards, moving the suburbs around the Basin Reserve and the Massey University campus into Wellington Central. In the 2002 distribution, the area covered by the Rongotai electorate did not change. Changes to boundaries were done in the 2007 distribution, but no further changes were done in the 2013/13 distribution.

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