1881 New Zealand general election
8 (Māori) & 9 (general) December 1881
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All 95 seats in the House of Representatives | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 66.5% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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elected_members, elected_mps.The 1881 New Zealand general election was held on 8 and 9 December in the Māori and European electorates, respectively, to elect 95 MPs to the 8th session of the New Zealand Parliament.
1881 was the first time a general election was held under universal male suffrage; all MPs were elected in single-member electorates; and the country quota was introduced, allowing rural electorates to have 25% fewer voters than urban electorates. Beginning with the 1881 election, all elections in European electorates were to be held on the same day, a measure not introduced for Māori electorates until 1951.