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Ruaau (electorate)

electoral division of the Cook Islands

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ97453188 ↗
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Ruaau is a Cook Islands electoral division returning one member to the Cook Islands Parliament.

The electorate was created in 1981, when the Constitution Amendment (No. 9) Act 1980–1981 adjusted electorate boundaries and split the electorate of Puaikura into two. It currently consists of the tapere of Pokoinu-i-Raro, Tokerau, Inave, and Arerenga on the island of Rarotonga.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ruaau (electorate)” as electoral division of the Cook Islands. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1981, 1980—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Ruaau, electorate and electoral can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as electoral division of the Cook Islands. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q97453188. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1981 and 1980.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ruaau (electorate)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.