New Zealand Electoral Atlas by Alan McRobie.

Publisher: GP Books, 1989.
SCARCE.

Good hardback with jacket, bumping and dents to edges and corners, big dent with chip to bottom edge, no inscriptions, pages as new.
Jacket has light edge/shelf-wear with fading to spine area.
154 pages, illustrated.

New Zealand's first electorates were promulgated by Sir George Grey in May 1853 and for the next 30 years they were periodically redrawn by incumbent politicians who, all to often, endeavoured to shape them to their personal political advantage. In 1887, after much heated argument spread over a number of years, Parliament finally decided to vest responsibility for the redistribution of electorates in a politically independent Representation Commission This body has carried out regular redistributions of electoral districts soon after each national census since that date.

The New Zealand Electoral Atlas traces the changing mosaic of the country's electoral districts from Grey's initial distribution through to the present day. An introductory essay outlines the evolution of the process of electoral redistribution before detailing the procedures used to achieve a fair and politically impartial electoral map, analying their strengths and weaknesses, and considering the implications of frequent redistributions on New Zealand's political system.

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