Category:Members of New Zealand provincial councils

This is the category for members of the Councils of the Provinces of New Zealand, from 1853 to their abolition in 1876. Note that Superintendents, the elected heads of the Provincial Councils, were not members of their Councils. Hence, Category:Superintendents of New Zealand provincial councils is not a subcategory for this category. This means that if a Superintendent was at another time one of the elected councillors, the article belong into both categories.

Membership of an executive council (comparable with today's cabinet) was an appointed position. Executive councillors did not necessarily have to be elected councillors, although rules stipulated that a proportion of the executive council had to be filled from the elected membership. Thus, this category is not a parent category to Category:Members of New Zealand provincial executive councils.