The Mt Roskill byelection is likely to be less than eight weeks away - and the Act Party won't take part in order to give National a better shot at winning. Key echoed earlier comments by National Party president Peter Goodfellow is claiming underdog status for National. National's likely candidate will be list MP Parmjeet Parmar. It could prove critical - in 2014 Goff won with an 8000-vote majority over Parmar but National got 14,275 party votes - about 2000 more than Labour. Mt Roskill byelection• Likely to be held December 3 after current MP Phil Goff was elected mayor of Auckland.

Source: New Zealand Herald October 10, 2016 04:30 UTC