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Wigram Woods

September 20th, 2010 at 2:00 pm by David Farrar

The Press reports:

The woman who put up a strong challenge for the Christchurch mayoralty three years ago is Labour’s pick for the Wigram seat, either in a by-election or next year’s general election.

Megan will be the next Labour MP for Wigram. Little doubt of that.

But I would caution media from applying labels which are not that accurate.

In 2007 Woods only got 32% of the vote in the Mayoral election, despite being the centre left candidate in a fairly leftish city. Parker got 45% and Jo Giles (former ACT) got 14%.

A member of the Spreaydon-Heathcote community board between 2004 and 2007, she put up a strong challenge for the Christchurch mayoralty that year, polling 34,000 votes, about 10,000 less than Parker.

She polled 32,821 votes and it was not about 10,000 less than Parker – it was about 14,000 less.

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9 Responses to “Wigram Woods”

  1. Pete George (17,596) Says:
    September 20th, 2010 at 2:06 pm

    “Picked” from a list of one?

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  2. Redbaiter (13,197) Says:
    September 20th, 2010 at 2:09 pm

    Leftmedia twisting the truth again to assist their chosen candidate.

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  3. slightlyrighty (2,247) Says:
    September 20th, 2010 at 2:09 pm

    I thought Anderton was referring to building materials?

    ;)

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  4. Mike Readman (323) Says:
    September 20th, 2010 at 2:11 pm

    Interesting you mention Jo Giles and The Press. On the Monday after the election, The Press reported the following: “Bob Parker won, Megan Woods came second and Mark Ross came fourth”. They ignored Jo completely. Maybe that’s because they did a “poll” before the election where they reported Jo had only 6% support.

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  5. Hagues (711) Says:
    September 20th, 2010 at 2:35 pm

    ” she put up a strong challenge for the Christchurch mayoralty that year, polling 34,000 votes, about 10,000 less than Parker.

    She polled 32,821 votes and it was not about 10,000 less than Parker – it was about 14,000 less.”

    Figures supplied post-adjustment by NIWA obviously.

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  6. DJP6-25 (1,100) Says:
    September 20th, 2010 at 2:44 pm

    ABB [Anyone but Bernie]

    cheers

    David Prosser

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  7. burt (5,933) Says:
    September 20th, 2010 at 3:10 pm

    Just a few thousand KFC vouchers from victory.

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  8. jaba (1,924) Says:
    September 20th, 2010 at 5:15 pm

    Jimbo said last week that Woods would get the job so that’s it, done and dusted .. I hear that Jimbo and Bob both want the reconstruction done in wood, as SlightlyR referred to .. steel framing’s the way to go and have I got a deal for you

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  9. pq (728) Says:
    September 20th, 2010 at 6:35 pm

    sweet Jesus please how will this Megan thing help us,
    can we do better, yes we can,

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