Labour's New Zealand Council announced 14 meetings to give members the chance to meet leadership candidates, currently former leader David Cunliffe and Wellington Central MP Grant Robertson.
The closest meeting to the West Coast will be held in Nelson on October 28.
West Coast-Tasman MP Damien O'Connor said he was not upset.
"I am not disappointed, the last thing we need is another leadership meeting on the West Coast. The sooner we can get on with this and get this completed the better the Labour Party will be. I don't think the West Coast will be missing out by not having one of these meetings," Mr O'Connor said.
He said party members he had spoken on the Coast were jaded.
"They are all a bit gutted we are having to go through this again."
He found it "disturbing" the party was conducting a leadership campaign while simultaneously conducting a review.
"We should be doing a comprehensive review of all parts of the campaign and party structure ... the cart's before the horse, but we have to try to be a comprehensive and effective opposition for the next three years."
However, former Buller mayor Pat O'Dea, a Labour stalwart, said he was sure fellow long-time party supporters would be upset by the snub.
"I am sure the Labour loyalists would be quite perturbed about that.
"If Labour want to succeed at anything they need to ensure Labour support, if they are going to leave out places like the West Coast, they are heading in the wrong direction for a start," Mr O'Dea said.
He agreed with criticism levelled at the party in the wake of its worst election result since 1922, that Labour had lost touch with the party faithful.
Labour had lost touch with its grassroots a while back, by stopping native logging on the Coast and by the message its potential relationship with the Green Party sent, Mr O'Dea said.
- By Ben Aulakh of the Greymouth Star
