the second one was John Chapman Andrew until he resigned in 1877, succeeded by George Beetham from 1877 to 1881. From 1881 to 1887 Wairarapa was replaced by two electorates; Wairarapa North and Wairarapa South. From 1887, they were replaced by the Masterton and Wairarapa electorates. Between 1899 and 1919 the Wairarapa electorate swung between Walter Clarke Buchanan the Conservative then Reform candidate and J. T. Marryat Hornsby the Liberal candidate, changing hands in 1902, 1905, 1908 and 1914. Buchanan's support was in the rural areas, and Hornsby's was in the small towns. From 1919 to 1928 the electorate was represented by Alexander McLeod for Reform. In 1928 he was defeated by Thomas William McDonald the United (Liberal) candidate, but in 1931 McLeod won the seat back. Ben Roberts represented the electorate for the Labour Party from the until 1946, when he retired. In the , Roberts was unsuccessfully challenged by National's Jimmy Maher. In the , Reg Boorman won the initial count by one vote, but Creech later challenged that result on the grounds that Boorman had violated new laws about election spending. Creech also challenged more than 200 votes (on various grounds). The Electoral Court upheld Creech's petition, and Creech won the seat in 1988 with a majority of 34 votes (9994 to 9960). Creech held the Wairarapa electorate for four parliamentary terms. In December 1997, he became Deputy Leader of the National Party. That gave him number two on the National party list, and he did not contest an electorate in the . The National Party stood Paul Henry in the election, but to the general surprise of political commentators, the typically right-leaning electorate was won by Labour's Georgina Beyer with a 3,033 vote majority to become the world's first transsexual member of parliament. At the , Beyer was easily re-elected with an increased majority of 6,372 votes. Beyer stood in the as a list-only candidate, and the Wairarapa electorate was won by John Hayes of the National Party. Hayes held the electorate for three parliamentary terms and retired at the , when he was succeeded by National's Alastair Scott. Members of Parliament Key Single-member electorate Multi-member electorate Single-member electorate List MPs Members of Parliament elected from party lists in elections where that person also unsuccessfully contested the Wairarapa electorate. Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at general elections. Election results 2020 election 2017