National will need to make history to capture Phil Goff's Mt Roskill seat in an upcoming byelection, the party's president Peter Goodfellow says. That will allow for a byelection in Mt Roskill before Christmas. Goodfellow said it will be "very difficult" to capture Mt Roskill, as no government had ever won a byelection off the Opposition. Labour has held Mt Roskill since it was created in 1999 and tends to take the electorate a bit for granted." Today, Parmar said she was yet to be selected as National's byelection candidate.

Source: New Zealand Herald October 08, 2016 05:26 UTC