{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Matapo Matapo
| office1 = Member of Parliament | term1 = 1983 | constituency1 = Titikaveka | predecessor1 = ''Seat established'' | successor1 = Teariki Matenga | party = Cook Islands Party
| birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = 25 July 1983 | death_place = Rarotonga, Cook Islands }}
'''Matapo Matapo''' (died 25 July 1983) was a Cook Islands businessman and politician. He briefly served as a Member of Parliament for several months before his death.
==Biography== Matapo was a planter and became a well-known businessman in the 1950s.<ref>[http://www.ciherald.co.ck/articles/PDF%20Herald%20Issues/Herald%20711%2002%2004%2014.pdf Memories of my fallen M.P. friends] ''Cook Islands Herald Views'', 2 April 2014, p11</ref> A member of the Cook Islands Party, he was a candidate in a 1977 by-election for the Takitumu seat following the death of Tiakana Numanga. However, he was defeated by Iaveta Short.<ref>[https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-335671033/view?sectionId=nla.obj-340113397&partId=nla.obj-335682925#page/n20/mode/1up Storms ahead in the Cooks?] ''Pacific Islands Monthly'', February 1978, p71</ref>
He ran again in the new Titikaveka constituency in the March 1983 general elections and was elected to Parliament. However, he died a few months later.<ref>[https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-339795163/view?partId=nla.obj-339853218#page/n64/mode/1up Matapo Matapo] ''Pacific Islands Monthly'', October 1983, p65</ref> The loss of his seat led to the government losing its majority and was one of the causes of early elections being held in November later in the year.
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Category:Cook Island farmers Category:20th-century New Zealand farmers Category:20th-century Cook Island businesspeople Category:Cook Islands Party politicians Category:Members of the Parliament of the Cook Islands Category:1983 deaths Category:Year of birth missing
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