Election 2020: Who are the deputies expelled from the Beehive?

While Jacinda Ardern was the big winner last night, claiming a historic victory in the 2020 elections and a second term as Prime Minister, for those who stood up to her victorious Labor Party it was a night of bloodshed. Both National and New Zealand First have suffered significant damage: the former lost 21 seats and the latter was expelled from Parliament. Stuff Take a look at last night’s losers and how good some of your chances of getting back into the corridors of power might be.

National

As soon as the votes started coming in on Saturday night, it didn’t look good for the National Party.

In the end, the lost electorates would include 11 seats painted blue last time, incumbent MPs who turned voters against them, including some in national strongholds.

For those 11, there is only room for nine to return to Parliament as list deputies.

That includes the deputy leader and campaign chairman. Gerry brownlee, who lost his seat in Ilam on Saturday and said the party had an “absolutely shocking year” when Labor achieved its biggest victory in 50 years.

The National senior figure is No. 2 on the list, but he did not commit to his future on Sunday.

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“We are obviously going to take a look in the next few days on how we will restructure to be an effective opposition,” Brownlee told TVNZ. Q + A.

Brownlee is best known in Christchurch for his time as the Minister of Earthquake Recovery, and his legacy, both positive and negative, comes down to the city’s residential red light district and the rebuilding of downtown.

The question now is whether Brownlee has a future in a National Party seeking to rebuild.

Elsewhere, Labor’s Ginny Anderson took the 7th National Party’s Hutt South seat Chris Bishop.

On Saturday night, Bishop said he was still committed to holding the government to account on Wellington’s affairs, particularly transportation and housing.

“The job has a great mandate … and with a great mandate comes great responsibility and great expectations that the government delivers on Wellington and the Hutt Valley,” he said.

National Finance Spokesperson Paul goldsmith is at number 3 on the list and is likely to remain in Parliament, as is David Bennett, who lost his seat in Hamilton East.

Dunedin MP List Michael Woodhouse, Wellington Central’s Nicola Willis, Mt Albert’s Melissa lee and the deputy from Tasmania’s west coast list Maureen pugh all should also come to Parliament with their current ranking on the national list.

Longtime incumbent national deputy Dr. Nick Smith gave up his seat in Nelson to Rachel Boyack of Labor.

The 2020 campaign was the eleventh for Smith, who was first elected in 1990 as a deputy from what was then the Tasmanian electorate. In 1996, he first held, and won, Nelson’s seat and has held it ever since.

Smith is 18th on the list and is still eligible for one of nine seats in Parliament.

Likewise, Whanganui Harete Hipango and New Plymouth MP Jonathan Young both were dethroned while Macindoe team He also lost for the first time since 2008, conceding to Labor Dr Gaurav Sharma.

Panmure-Ōtahuhu’s Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi, list MP Paulo García, Mt Roskill’s Parmjeet Parmar and from Māngere Agnes Loheni all are likely to be expelled from Parliament after losing their seats.

Controversial national deputy Alfred Ngaro, who is ranked 30th on the list, will likely be removed from Parliament after again losing Te Atātu’s seat to Phil Twyford.

Ngaro was the first Cook Islander to be elected to Parliament in 2011.

By Tukituki Lawrence Yule lost by 772 votes to new Labor MP Anna Lorck.

MPhārui MP Brett hudson, Northcote’s Dan Bidois | and from Mana Jo hayes all are likely to lose their seats after failing to win their constituencies.

New Zealand first

When the voting came in on Saturday, the sun set on Winston Peters and NZ First, after getting just over 2 percent of the vote.

The NZ First leader and former deputy prime minister has spent 36 years in Parliament and on Saturday night at the Duke of Marlborough hotel in Russell, he kept his speech short after none of his MPs won any seats.

“For 27 years, there has been a party that has been prepared to challenge the establishment and challenge authority, and tonight more than ever, that force is still needed,” Peters said.

“As for the next challenge, we will all have to wait and see.”

Northland Candidate Shane jones, who had been touted as Peters’ successor and a possible route back to power for the party, failed to win over his constituency, far behind Matt King from National and Willow-Jean Prime from Labor.

Speaking to reporters Sunday, Jones said it was a “harrowing night.”

“Let’s face it, there was a red tsunami and the public was obviously tuned in to the whole Covid kōrero, and the forces that are right-wing, and I’m right-wing as a politician, it wasn’t a night for us,” Jones said.

He would not be drawn to the future, saying that it was up to Peters to chart the way forward.

When Jacinda Ardern was appointed Prime Minister in the last elections, she now called former MP NZ First Tracey martin and asked her to serve as Minister for Children.

Martin, also Minister of Home Affairs, Seniors and Associate Minister of Education, was tasked with carrying out the biggest reform ever seen in state care services.

Martin and Auckland Central listed MP Jenny marcroft fell after the party’s last-minute decision to demand a referendum on legislation that would have removed abortion from the Crimes Act.

Martin had worked for months on the law change with the Minister of Justice, Andrew Little.

Martin and Marcroft chose to walk across the room and vote for legislation against their party. And Martin gave a heartfelt speech in which he revealed that his grandmother Beverley died after a high street layoff in 1946. She told the story with tears in her eyes.

Former Defense Minister and Wairarapa candidate Ron Mark, Palmerston North’s Darroch Ball and Taieri Mark Patterson all will also be expelled from the Hive.