Candidates’ pages updated
February 28th, 2008 at 11:23 am by David FarrarJust a note that I have updated my 2008 Candidates page.
Thanks to those who keep sending updates through. Please keep it up. As far as I know there is no other up to date listing of major candidates as neither Labour nor National have a list on their websites.
It occurs to me it could be a useful service to hyperlink the names through to the candidate’s websites and/or blogs. That will take a while but something I’ll look at doing when I get some time. It means I’d have to change it from a graphic copied from Excel to an actual HTML table which I would have to swot up on to code.
The page is generally updated every one to two weeks.
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February 28th, 2008 at 11:53 am
I can assure you that David Coates is not the National Candidate for Selwyn, selections remain open. He may however be Labours.
Vote:February 28th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Oh shit I must have put him in the wrong column. Yes he is Labour’s.
Vote:February 28th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Perhaps some psychologist (or even psychiatrist!!!) out there may care to enlighten us on the penchant Labour has of picking candidates with double-barrelled names – 4 to date and would have been 5 if they hadn’t fired that nice old B-P.
Vote:February 28th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
I want to see Angelina Greensill in Parliament, if only so she could sing a self-penned waiata at the end of all her speeches!
Vote:February 28th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Monte Ohia has been selected to be the Maori Party candidate for Te Tai Tonga. A seat that he could very well win.
Vote:February 28th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
David, you’ve also made the mistake by putting Chris Finlayson in bold for the Rongotai seat. A minor error, but he’s not the incumbent MP for that seat. In fact, last election he was List for Mana, not Rongotai so bold is an off-shot.
Glad to see him in there though – he’ll give old King a run for her money.
Vote:February 28th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
re: the html table; you should actually be able to export it straight from excel as an html table. Screw re-coding it by hand! (On behalf of web designers everywhere: “Tables… ugh!”)
Vote:February 28th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Brendan Sheehan has absolutely no chance against Pansy Wong. Pansy is a seasoned trench fighter and right wing National Party loyalist while Sheehans claim to fame is [deleted by DPF as defamatory - 20 demerits]
Tim Macindoe could well take Hamilton West off the Labour Party this year – Gallagher’s performance has been nothing short of dismal this Parliamentary term.
Vote:February 28th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
How is it that the National Party would be persuaded to let that tyred political retread Terry Heffernan stand as a candidate?
Vote:February 29th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
If you go to the National Party website nearly all the candidates selected thus far are listed in their respective Electorates. If you click on their pictures you obtain biographical information as well.
[DPF: Yeah, but would be useful to have a single list on a page, so you don't need to search through 62 pages to see who all the candidates are]
Vote:March 1st, 2008 at 3:24 pm
I think a hyperlink to candidates pages will be great. An efficient way of further establishing the internet’s place in our elections.
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