Steph Lewis has been chosen as the Labour Party candidate for Whanganui in the 2020 General Election. ​Steph Lewis has been re-selected as the Labour Party's candidate for the Whanganui electorate in the 2020 election. Lewis is the first candidate to be selected, ahead of the party's annual conference, which is being held in Whanganui on the weekend of November 30. Lewis was born in Whanganui and grew up between Kaitoke Prison village, where her dad worked as a prison officer, and her family's farm in Waverley. I will be campaigning hard to make Whanganui a Labour electorate again and to return the Labour-led Government for a second term," she said.

Source: Stuff November 17, 2019 21:22 UTC