Māori Constituency 2022

This dataset is the definitive set of regional council Māori constituency boundaries for 2022 as defined by the regional councils and Local Government Commission but maintained by StatsNZ (the custodian).Māori constituencies are established under the Local Electoral Act 2001 and result from the division of a region for electoral purposes.Māori constituencies are divisions of regional council areas. They are created, based on population, to be the voting areas within councils. Māori constituencies are defined at meshblock level, and do not coincide with the statistical area 1 (SA1) or statistical area 2 (SA2) geographies.If a regional council decides to have a Māori constituency, the constituencies within the council are known as general constituencies and Māori constituencies.Classifications exist annually from 2005 to 2022.The boundaries of Māori constituencies may be reviewed before each three-yearly local government election. Regional councils must review their representation arrangements at least once every six years. The provisions for such reviews are contained in the Local Government Act 2002.Māori constituencies are numbered based on their corresponding regional council. Each Māori constituency has a unique four-digit code. The first two digits represent the regional council that the Māori constituency lies within. The last two digits are sequential and represent the number of Māori constituencies within a regional council. For example, the Waikato Regional Council (03) contains two Māori constituencies which are coded 0301 and 0302.In the 2022 classification two regional councils have Māori constituencies: Waikato and Bay of Plenty. Digital boundary data became freely available on 1 July 2007.本数据集为2022年大区议会毛利选区(Māori constituency)边界的权威合集，由大区议会与地方政府委员会（Local Government Commission）划定，由新西兰统计局(StatsNZ，保管方)维护。 毛利选区依据《2001年地方选举法》设立，系为选举目的对大区进行划分的产物，属于大区议会辖区的细分单元。其根据人口规模划定，作为各议会内部的投票辖区。毛利选区以统计地块(meshblock)为单位划定，其地理范围与统计区域1（SA1）、统计区域2（SA2）并不重合。 若某大区议会决定设立毛利选区，则该议会下辖的选区分为普通选区与毛利选区两类。该分类体系自2005年起至2022年每年更新。 毛利选区的边界可在每三年一次的地方政府选举前进行审查调整。大区议会须至少每六年对其代表席位安排进行一次审查，相关审查条款载于《2002年地方政府法》。 毛利选区的编号与其所属大区议会对应，每个毛利选区均配有唯一的四位数编码：前两位代表该选区所属的大区议会，后两位为顺序编号，代表该大区议会下辖的毛利选区序号。例如，怀卡托大区议会（编码03）下辖两个毛利选区，编码分别为0301与0302。 在2022年的分类体系中，仅有怀卡托与丰盛湾两个大区议会设立了毛利选区。数字化边界数据于2007年7月1日起免费对外开放。