Te Puke residents will now turn to MP Todd McClay after the township was officially transferred to the Rotorua electorate today.

The 2014 Representation Commission announced today that Te Puke and the surrounding western area will be transferred from the Bay of Plenty electorate to Rotorua.

Purple lines – general electorate. Pink – Maori electorate.

Other changes see Tauranga City retain the Pyes Pa catchment but as a spin off compensatory adjustments to the Bay of Plenty electorate now include Omanu and Poike areas.

The Bay of Plenty is currently represented by National MP Tony Ryall, who this year announced he will retire from politics at this year's general election.

'As you know I am retiring from politics," Tony told SunLive today.

'My assessment is that BOP remains a solid National Party electorate, and the inclusion of Omanu and Poike will add to that.”

Tauranga City Councillor and National Party BOP candidate nominee Steve Morris supports the change.

'I guess if I look back 25 years ago as a kid when I was at primary school in Papamoa we used to have calf days and have cows moving over the back fence at night; and we have just grown so much.

'And when you look at what has happened in the Bay of Plenty electorate, for example that electorate used to stretch out beyond Whakatane and then it came into Te Puke, and now Te Puke is in the Rotorua electorate it just shows how fast the area has grown.

'I think for the first time we can really say Tauranga really does have two electorates.”

Further down the eastern region, the East Coast electorate now includes Kawerau and the coastal belt around Maketu from Rotorua and has lost population in the south to Napier.

The changes are a product of the Commission's statutory role of reviewing and redrawing electorate boundaries to be used in the next two general elections. The aim is to spread voters evenly throughout the electorates of New Zealand.

'We received 409 objections and 164 counter-objections to the proposed electorate boundaries released in November 2013,” says Representation Commission chairman Bernard Kendall.

'This feedback and submissions made at hearings in Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga and Christchurch have helped shape the final boundaries to be used at the 2014 and 2017 general elections.”

Five of the 409 submissions were from Tauranga.

In total there are new boundaries among the country's 64 general and seven Maori electorates – with an additional electorate created in Auckland.

Upper Harbour has been created by drawing population predominantly from the neighbouring electorates of East Coast Bays and Helensville in the north and from Te Atatu in the south.

More information including maps of the new boundaries a summary of key changes and the Commission's report can be viewed here.