2011 candidates updated
August 29th, 2011 at 1:00 pm by David FarrarI’ve updated the candidates list, which is a permanent page on this blog.
The page has the main candidates for each electorate. It now also has a spreadsheet which lists the electorate candidates for the smaller parties, and the party lists for those parties that have announced them. This will be updated approximately weekly.
Labour have found a couple more victims for seats, but still have a few unfilled. At this stage I have no known Labour candidates for Hunua, Ikaroa-Rawhiti, Tamaki and Tauranga.
UPDATE: Labour this morning announced that their Tauranga candidate is Deborah Mahuta-Coyle. I guess they were incapable of finding anyone with an actual connection to Tauranga to stand. Deborah works in the Goffice as a press secretary and the closest they can do in linking her to Tauranga is saying:
Although not originally from Tauranga, Deborah grew up further along State Highway 1 in the small town of Huntly
Hilarious. Almost as funny as this:
“Deborah is dynamic, skilled, hardworking candidate- who will do her best to represent Labour in the Tauranga electorate and if given the chance, will strongly represent Tauranga as their MP after the general election”, Moira Coatsworth said.
Deborah is one of Labour’s better candidates, but to suggest she can win Tauranga is lunacy.
UPDATE2:
Whale points out that Tauranga is of course nowhere near SH1.
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- Four more candidates
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August 29th, 2011 at 1:03 pm
Yep Luvly boy will sleep walk in in Tga.
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August 29th, 2011 at 1:05 pm
Huntly is further along SH1 now?
Except Tauraunga is even ON SH1 at all and Huntley is about as close as Taupo.
Vote:August 29th, 2011 at 1:25 pm
Perhaps Labour should take a leaf from National’s book and just not stand candidates in some seats.
Vote:August 29th, 2011 at 1:29 pm
>Although not originally from Tauranga, Deborah grew up further along State Highway 1 in the small town of Huntly
I’ve never actually visited Tauranga, but I also live close to SH1 so I feel more than qualified to stand for election in Tauranga if any other party wants a candidate.
Vote:August 29th, 2011 at 1:42 pm
Is State Highway One now a little like Air Force One and it is whatever Highway that Phil Goff or a Labour convoy is travelling on?
Vote:August 29th, 2011 at 1:50 pm
Huh? Your spreadsheet shows Hone Harawira as a Maori Party candidate DPF.
Vote:August 29th, 2011 at 1:51 pm
“Deborah is one of Labour’s better candidates, but to suggest she can win Tauranga is lunacy.”
Fucking Labour liars. They should take a cue from the honest parties. National’s press releases always admit when they can’t win an electorate, if only Labour had 1% even of their honesty…
Vote:August 29th, 2011 at 2:17 pm
Well they have about that much of nationals voters Daigotsu, so its a start.
Vote:August 29th, 2011 at 2:40 pm
lets just say, labour don’t really care about tauranga as it is a lost cause for them.
Vote:August 29th, 2011 at 2:58 pm
I don’t see why they’d humiliate themselves by standing anyone in Tauranga really. Oh well at least it will further split the non-Nat vote
Vote:August 29th, 2011 at 3:53 pm
Almost as bad as Scott Simpson thinking Katikati is in the Waikato.
Makes me seriously worry about democracy in NZ when parties pick candidates without so much as a cursory knowledge of the area they are supposdly campaigning to win.
More worryingly for us Scott Simpson will probably win Corromandel. Meaning Corromandel will have a certifiably ignorant mp representing them. I think Nationals lucky Genette Fitzimmons has retired, otherwise it’d be a Green seat again. Pitty we have no one else to vote for even as a protest to show National how pee’d off we are.
But in Tauranga, expect Labours candidate to poll third highest tops. Expect the green candidate to poll higher, as they’ve been putting their name around a fair bit for awhile, so name recognition should be higher.
Vote:August 29th, 2011 at 4:12 pm
Nick Bakulich is the Labour candidate for Tamaki, according to their website.
Vote:August 29th, 2011 at 5:39 pm
“I don’t see why they’d humiliate themselves by standing anyone in Tauranga really.”
Because the seat is so hostile for them a loss isn’t perceived as detracting from their brand, and their candidate can canvas for list votes.
Same reason we stand candidates in Labour hellholes like South Auckland.
Vote:August 29th, 2011 at 5:49 pm
It’s all about the experience, she and james will grow out of it and because they can’t win they will be real to the Taurangians!
Vote:August 29th, 2011 at 7:06 pm
“Deborah looks forward to representing Tauranga just as soon as she works out where it is.”
Vote:August 29th, 2011 at 8:03 pm
She’d have to be a great example of the typical Labour politico. So many of them have demonstrated so many times that they’ve absolutely no idea as to where they are – or even where they’re supposed to be.
Vote:August 29th, 2011 at 8:16 pm
Just looking at the Labour Candidate for North Shore. (Ben Clarke) He says he’s a blogger for the standard and that:
“We had the pleasure of David Cunliffe visiting businesses in the electorate yesterday. Darien Fenton, Labour’s List MP who looks after the North Shore.”
How exactly does Fenton look after the shore? She’s as much use as a chocolate kettle on the shore!
He worked in computer games – and to his fame he worked on the game ‘Big Mutha Truckers’
Vote:August 31st, 2011 at 9:00 pm
Labour will come third in TGA. Brendan Horan from NZ First will definitely get more votes than this candidate.
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