The 2020 pink wave has receded and changed with an enormous blue wave, which washed ashore at Parliament as we speak as Nationwide’s 24-odd new MPs arrived at their new workplace for his or her orientation.
Whereas a few of these 24 could ebb away after particular votes are counted, 1News political reporter Felix Desmarais took a take a look at a few of Nationwide’s latest names in Parliament.
Tim Costley – Ōtaki
Ōtaki MP Tim Costley. (Supply: 1News)
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Costley, who has a Grasp’s diploma in worldwide defence and safety, a Bachelor’s diploma in mathematical physics and a diploma in enterprise, ran unsuccessfully towards Labour’s Terisa Ngobi in 2020, having been chosen to switch Nathan Man as Nationwide’s candidate within the seat. Nonetheless, on Saturday evening Costley reaped revenge, taking the seat from Ngobi with a greater than 5700 margin on preliminary outcomes.
Costley joined the Royal New Zealand Air Drive as a pilot in 2001, flying Iroquois and NH90 helicopters. He additionally accomplished a tour of responsibility in Afghanistan.
He held a wide range of management roles throughout the RNZAF and in 2014 was seconded to Prince William the Duke of Cambridge as an Equerry – an officer of the British royal family who assists members of the royal household.
He additionally starred in a viral video in 2007.
Costley in a viral video in 2007. (Supply: Provided)
Costley additionally based The Lacking Wingman Belief, which helps Air Drive households when somebody is killed, wounded, injured or turns into sick, whether or not in New Zealand or abroad. He’s married to Emma, has three daughters and enjoys long-distance working.
Talking to 1News as we speak, Costley stated he was excited to be at Parliament.
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“I am wanting ahead to only getting caught in and studying heaps and being a part of this staff.”
He stated it was “superb” to have the ability to signify the folks of Ōtaki
Requested what he was most wanting ahead to on his first day at Parliament he joked it was “figuring out which door to stroll in”.
Suze Redmayne – Rangitīkei
Rangitīkei MP Suze Redmayne. (Supply: 1News)
Redmayne, a farmer, has additionally beforehand labored for former Rangitīkei MP Ian McKelvie and his predecessor Simon Energy in part-time roles, together with as a press secretary. She is the citizens’s first feminine MP. The seat has solely ever been held by Labour as soon as in its 162-year historical past. She has has a Bachelor of Arts from Otago College, having attended Wellington’s Samuel Marsden Collegiate.
She instructed the New Zealand Herald one in every of her priorities was for a steady police presence in Feilding and to do no matter she may as an MP to assist with Ruapehu Alpine Carry’s monetary scenario.
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This morning Redmayne instructed 1News she felt “implausible, very excited”.
Rolling onto the Parliament forecourt, she was requested if she knew the place the carpark was.
Redmayne stated “no, I am nearly to search out out”, pointing at a Nationwide Social gathering staffer.
Redmayne received her seat with a greater than 8600 vote margin on preliminary outcomes.
Carl Bates – Whanganui
Whanganui MP Carl Bates. (Supply: 1News)
Carl Bates has received the Whanganui citizens from Steph Lewis, who received it from Nationwide’s Harete Hipango in 2020. On preliminary outcomes, he has a margin of greater than 5000 votes.
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Bates, who was born and raised in Whanganui, instructed 1News his focus for as we speak was “studying the ropes”.
He returned to New Zealand after years abroad constructing Sirdar – a enterprise which appointed and schooling boards and administrators of corporations in Africa, New Zealand and Australia.
Bates, who has a Bachelor of Enterprise Research in Accountancy, has stated he cares “strongly” about backing farmers.
He was the Hutt Valley Chamber of Commerce’s Younger Enterprise Individual of the 12 months in 2016.
Grant McCallum – Northland
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Maungaturoto beef and dairy farmer Grant McCallum has crushed one in every of Labour’s ministers within the Northland seat. Willow-Jean Prime received in 2020, the primary time Labour received the seat. However McCallum has seized it again for Nationwide with an virtually 5700 vote margin on preliminary outcomes.
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He moved to Northland within the late Nineteen Seventies and holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Agriculture from Lincoln College.
He has been a member of the Bluegreens govt since 2001, and served as vice chairman of the Northern department of Federated Farmers, in addition to on the boards of a number of Northland sporting organisations.
At present, McCallum stated he was “very excited” about his first day on the job.
“It is an actual privilege to be right here,” he stated.
He stated there was a “sense on the bottom” that there was a shift to Nationwide for the election, “however you by no means know till you realize, on this sport”.
“It made for a nervous evening however very satisfying for our staff.”
Carlos Cheung – Mt Roskill
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Mt Roskill MP Carlos Cheung. (Supply: 1News)
Cheung’s win over Labour’s Michael Wooden in Mount Roskill is without doubt one of the stand out upsets of the election.
Created in 1999, the citizens has solely ever been held by Labour MPs – Phil Goff and Wooden. WhileWood – who was plagued with shareholding scandals within the final time period – received the seat in 2020 with an virtually 14,000 vote margin, Cheung seems to have whisked it off him by 1429 votes on preliminary outcomes.
Born in Hong Kong, Cheung is an organization director, most not too long ago working in property administration, however with a background in organic and biomedical science.
He moved to New Zealand as an adolescent, ending college at Auckland Grammar, and graduating from Auckland College with Bachelor of Science, Postgraduate Diploma in Medical Science, Grasp of Organic Science and PhD in Organic Science. His analysis work centered on diabetes and cardiac illness.
He’s a member of the Institute of Administrators and volunteers with the ARK Collective, which is a Roskill-based group devoted to charity and emergency administration work within the space.
Married to Fiona, Cheung has lived in Mount Roskill for greater than 15 years.
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Emma Chatterton – checklist… possibly
Emma Chatterton. (Supply: 1News)
Chatterton has referred to herself as a “candidate on the cusp” on social media. The previous instructor, who’s now a senior chief at at Wellington-based social funding firm, ran towards Labour chief Chris Hipkins within the Remutaka seat.
Hipkins beat her there by greater than 7600 votes, however Chatterton, who confirmed off her piano prowess on social media throughout the marketing campaign, might be an MP by way of the checklist.
“As soon as all of the particular votes are in and counted in a number of weeks we are going to discover out if I am heading to Parliament as an inventory MP or not. It is going to be shut – as we speak I am heading to induction with the staff simply in case,” she wrote on Instagram.
Chatterton is quantity 27 on the Nationwide Social gathering checklist and is a mom of 4 with husband Tom.
Chatterton was the lone Nationwide consultant to talk to a College Strike 4 Local weather protest in March, going through heckling and abuse from these gathered, prompting Inexperienced co-leader James Shaw to say Nationwide had hung her “out to dry” by not fronting an MP.
