# Matapo Matapo

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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Matapo Matapo

| office1 = Member of [Parliament](/source/Parliament_of_the_Cook_Islands)
| term1 = 1983
| constituency1 = [Titikaveka](/source/Titikaveka_(electorate))
| predecessor1 = ''Seat established''
| successor1 = [Teariki Matenga](/source/Teariki_Matenga)
| party = [Cook Islands Party](/source/Cook_Islands_Party)

| birth_date = 
| birth_place = 
| death_date = 25 July 1983
| death_place = [Rarotonga](/source/Rarotonga), Cook Islands
}}

'''Matapo Matapo''' (died 25 July 1983) was a [Cook Islands](/source/Cook_Islands) businessman and politician. He briefly served as a Member of [Parliament](/source/Parliament_of_the_Cook_Islands) 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](/source/Cook_Islands_Party), he was a candidate in a 1977 by-election for the [Takitumu](/source/Takitumu_(electorate)) seat following the death of [Tiakana Numanga](/source/Tiakana_Numanga). However, he was defeated by [Iaveta Short](/source/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](/source/Titikaveka_(electorate)) constituency in the [March 1983 general elections](/source/March_1983_Cook_Islands_general_election) 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](/source/November_1983_Cook_Islands_general_election) being held in November later in the year.

==References==
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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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