History
Rodney was first created for the 1871 election and was represented by four MPs from 1871 to 1890: Henry Farnall 1871-72 (resigned); John Sheehan 1872-79 (elected for Thames in 1879); Seymour Thorne George 1879-84 (retired); and William Pollock Moat 1884-90 (retired).
Its first recreation was from the 1946 election to 1978, and was recreated for a single term six years later for the 1984 election.
Rodney was again recreated ahead of the change to Mixed Member Proportional voting in 1996. Its original incarnation was coterminous with the district for which it is named – most of the old Albany seat minus its eponymous town, with a large section of Kaipara tacked onto the northern fringe. Both of these seats were held by National MPs - Lockwood Smith in Kaipara and then Deputy Prime Minister Don McKinnon in Albany. Smith won his party's nomination for what is a safe National seat and has not been seriously troubled for re-election since.
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