National's Nick Smith is at risk of losing the seat he's held for 24 years. "If I'm brutally honest, we can't come back from this," Smith reportedly told the crowd in Nelson. Brigette Morton predicted there was a night of carnage ahead for many National Party politicians. National Party president Peter Goodfellow said the party had been running a Covid campaign and it was very hard to get any cut through. National Party deputy leader and campaign manager Gerry Brownlee said it was a campaign hampered by Covid.

Source: New Zealand Herald October 17, 2020 08:03 UTC