Whaleoil Awards – Best Electorate MP

There were loads of nominations. This may well be the largest poll I have conducted.

According to my commenters here are who we should be considering for the Whaleoil Award for Best Electorate MP.

Sam Lotu Iiga – Nominated by a Maungakiekie resident who says:

…as a Maungakiekie resident of 34 years who has seen this electorate transform from the Labour stronghold of Onehunga held in succession by Hugh Watt, Fred Gerbich, the tosspot trougher Richard Northey & the likeable Mark Gosche. Sam took the seat out in fine style as a rank outsider in 2008 by 1900 votes and increased his margin to almost 3000 in 2011. As a bonus he helped his good mate Alfred Ngaro into the house & enabled us to rid ourselves of detested unionist Carol Beaumont.

Sam is often criticised for not performing to his utmost in order to secure promotion to ministerial ranks but the fact is that he spends far too much of his time doing what great constituency MPs do. His office door is invariably open and he lends his support regardless of race, colour or creed.

Chris Hipkins - did pretty extraordinarily well to retain Rimutaka by such a large margin despite Labour being whipped in the party vote. He worked his arse off for that electorate in the last three years. Like him or not, good on him. While supposedly experienced campaigners and high fliers like Burns, Cosgrove, Ardern, Speuloni and Little all lost winnable marginal seats, Hipkins has made Rimutaka his seat for life by being an active and appreciated local MP.

Damien O’Connor - for sticking up for himself, dropping off the list and going for it in the electorate alone. That took some balls. Most of all for calling it like it is:
“I wouldn’t trust them. Between a gaggle of gays and some self-serving unionists, I’m not sure that a straight shooter such as myself would be  given a fair deal.”

Kate Wilkinson – for exiting Clayton Cosgrove in Waimakiriri despite the constant sledging of the usual Labour nasties, notably Trevor Mallard. To unseat Cosgrove takes some doing and Kate must have convinced a great many constituents that she would represent them better than Clayton Cosgrove.

Nicky Wagner – for see ing off Lord Burns of Marlborough and working terribly hardlocally to secure the support fo the locals after a lifetime of Labour representation.

Nikki Kaye – took the seat off Labour and Judy T, then held it against Jacinda Ardern. Reportedly knocked on over 10,000 doors. Stuck up for locals on Great Barrier over mining and went against the party bosses.

Nick Smith – for making Nelson a fortress for Nick Smith.

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