Māori Constituency 2023

This dataset is the definitive set of regional council Māori constituency boundaries for 2023 as defined by the regional councils and/or Local Government Commission and maintained by Stats NZ (the custodian). This version contains 11 Māori constituencies (excluding Area Outside Māori Constituency). 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 2023. 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 everysix years. The provisions for such reviews are contained in the Local Government Act 2002. Numbering 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. Generalised version This generalised version has been simplified for rapid drawing and is designed for thematic or web mapping purposes. Macrons Names are provided with and without tohutō/macrons. The column name for those without macrons is suffixed ‘ascii’. Digital data Digital boundary data became freely available on 1 July 2007.本数据集为2023年区域议会毛利选区边界的权威官方数据集，由各区域议会及/或地方政府委员会（Local Government Commission）划定，并由新西兰统计局（Stats NZ，数据保管方）负责维护。本版本包含11个毛利选区（不含"毛利选区外区域"类别）。毛利选区依据《2001年地方选举法》（Local Electoral Act 2001）设立，是为满足选举目的对区域进行的划分单元，隶属于区域议会辖区的细分层级。其基于人口规模划定，作为各议会内部的投票区域，以街区网格（meshblock）级别进行界定，与统计区域1（statistical area 1，SA1）及统计区域2（statistical area 2，SA2）的地理边界并不重合。若某区域议会决定设立毛利选区，则该议会内的选区将分为普通选区与毛利选区两类。该分类体系的更新周期覆盖2005年至2023年，每年更新一次。毛利选区的边界可在每三年一度的地方政府选举前进行修订。区域议会必须至少每六年对其代表权安排开展一次审查，相关审查条款载于《2002年地方政府法》（Local Government Act 2002）。毛利选区的编号与其所属区域议会一一对应：每个毛利选区均配有唯一的四位数字编码，前两位代表该选区所属的区域议会，后两位为顺序编号，用于标识该区域议会下辖的毛利选区序号。例如，怀卡托区域议会（编码03）下辖两个毛利选区，编码分别为0301与0302。简化版本：本简化版本已针对快速绘图进行优化，专为专题制图或网络地图制作场景设计。长元音标注：名称同时提供带毛利语长元音标记（tohutō）与长元音符号（macrons）的版本，以及不带长元音的版本；不带长元音的字段名称后缀为"ascii"。数字边界数据：该数字边界数据集已于2007年7月1日正式免费对外开放。