Marjorie Cook National's new Clutha Southland MP Hamish Walker and his partner Penny Tipu. Invercargill electorate candidates Sarah Dowie, Liz Craig, Rochelle Surendran, and Ria Bond. Walker, Craig and Patterson are all first-termers. Narrowly missing Parliament three years ago as list MP, she was called in to the House to fill a list vacancy created when party leader Peters transitioned to electorate MP status by winning the Northland by-election. But he emerged a whopping 13,000 votes ahead of his nearest challenger, certainly within cooee of Barclay's nearly 15,000 majority three years earlier and the 16,000 majority English himself had built up as the electorate MP in 2011.

Source: Stuff September 24, 2017 01:41 UTC