Story: Voting rights

More links and websites

• Election days

  This NZ History feature looks at the history of elections in New Zealand.

• History of the Vote

  This section of the Elections New Zealand website gives a history of voting and elections in New Zealand.

• Maori and the vote

  Provides information about Māori involvement in the electoral system.

• New Zealand women and the vote

  A feature on the NZ History website about women gaining the vote in New Zealand.

• The road to MMP

  Looks at New Zealand’s change from the first past the post voting system to the mixed-member proportional (MMP) system.

• Women's suffrage petition

  A digital version of the largest of the 1893 petitions, showing signatories’ names and locations.

More suggestions and sources

• Atkinson, Neill. Adventures in democracy: a history of the vote in New Zealand. Dunedin: University of Otago Press in association with the Electoral Commission, 2003.
• Grimshaw, Patricia. Women's suffrage in New Zealand. 2nd ed. Auckland: University of Auckland Press; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
• Lovell-Smith, Margaret (ed.). The woman question: writings by the women who won the vote. Auckland: New Women's Press, 1992.
• McRobie, Alan. New Zealand electoral atlas. Wellington: GP Books, 1989.
• Rei, Tania. Māori women and the vote. Wellington: Huia, 1993