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Wiremu Mulligan "Bill" Gudgeon is a former New Zealand politician. He is a member of the New Zealand First party.
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Wiremu Mulligan "Bill" Gudgeon is a former New Zealand politician. He is a member of the New Zealand First party.
Gudgeon is of Ngāti Porou descent [1] and was raised on the East Coast and in the Waikato. He studied at the University of Waikato and the University of Hawaii. Gudgeon served in the New Zealand Army, and was part of deployments in Malaya, Thailand and Borneo. He eventually became a lecturer at Waikato Polytechnic.
| Years | Term | Electorate | List | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002–2005 | 47th | List | 12 | NZ First | |
Gudgeon stood in the 1999 election in the Ikaroa-Rāwhiti electorate. [2] He was ranked 25th on New Zealand First's party list, which was too low to be elected. [3] He was elected to Parliament as a list MP in the 2002 election, [4] having been ranked twelfth on the New Zealand First list. He lost his list seat following a large decline in New Zealand First's vote in the 2005 election.
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