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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 67

New Zealand Electoral Returns, 1887

New Zealand Electoral Returns, 1887.

In order that the readers of this pamphlet may with the more ease and clearness follow out, understand, and apply to their own particular surroundings the facts and figures about to be cited, they are given in detail provincially, and afterwards summed up in regard to the Colony as a whole. The Colony is by the Representation Act, 1887, divided into ninety-one single-seat electorates (European). The boundaries of these electorates were supposed to be so drawn that each district should possess, as nearly as might be, the same number of inhabitants; country districts being allowed a slight advantage over town or city districts in the way of a smaller population being taken as the quota necessary to carry a representative. Of these 91 seats 39 were given to the North Island, and 52 to the South Island (including Stewart's).