Anna Lorck

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Anna Lorck
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Lorck in 2023
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Tukituki
In office
17 October 2020 14 October 2023
YearsTermElectorateListParty
2020 2023 53rd Tukituki none Labour

At the 2014 election, Lorck, a Hastings business woman, stood as a candidate in the Tukituki electorate for the Labour Party, and did not stand on the Labour list. As a first time candidate she made significant progress into the margin against incumbent National Party MP Craig Foss, and announced she would stand again at the 2017 election. She was ranked 46 on the Labour party list. [7]

During a tightly fought contest, in July 2017 a complaint by a right-wing blogger, was made against Lorck to the Advertising Standards Authority over her billboard wording of "Your Local MP". Lorck responded by stating the intention of the message was to convey that she lived in the Tukituki electorate while National candidate Lawrence Yule lived in neighboring Napier. [8] Lorck again made significant inroads into the majority but was not elected, nor ranked high enough on the Labour list to be elected to Parliament. [6]

At the 2020 general election, Lorck was selected as the Labour candidate for Tukituki for the third time. She was given the Labour Party's endorsement to run a local MP campaign and consequently was not on the party list. [6] This time she unseated Yule by a margin of 1590 votes, returning the electorate to Labour for the first time since 2002. [9] [10]

Member of Parliament

In August 2022, a former senior staffer within the New Zealand Parliament alleged that Lorck had bullied her, and that Lorck had been through three executive assistants in a year and a half. [11] In September 2022, a second former staffer made allegations of bullying including "persistent scolding" against Lorck. In response to media coverage, Lorck confirmed that she was undergoing leadership training and claimed that she had never received complaints of bullying from the staffer during their employment period. [12] [13]

During the 2023 New Zealand general election, Lorck was unseated by National Party candidate Catherine Wedd, who won by a margin of 10,118 votes. [14]

Personal life

Lorck is married to Hastings District Councillor Damon Harvey. [15] [16] They have a blended family of five children. [16]

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