Dan Bidois

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New Zealand Parliament
Dan Bidois
MP
Dan Bidois.jpg
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Northcote
Incumbent
Assumed office
14 October 2023
YearsTermElectorateParty
2018 –2020 52nd Northcote National
2023 –present 54th Northcote60 National

On 22 March 2018, then-Member for Northcote Jonathan Coleman announced his resignation from Parliament, triggering the first by-election of the 52nd Parliament. [9] On 15 April, Bidois was chosen as National's candidate for the Northcote by-election, [6] [10] which he subsequently won by 6.28%, receiving 10,566 votes and taking 50.67% of the overall vote. [11] Bidois was sworn into the 52nd Parliament on 27 June 2018 as the Member for Northcote and gave his maiden speech on 3 July 2018.

On 3 July 2018, Bidois was announced as National's Spokesperson for the Future of Work, and Associate Spokesperson for Workplace Relations and Safety. This created criticism due to his views on trade unions. [12]

Transport was a major campaign issue of Bidois' during the 2018 by-election. Since election he has challenged Auckland Transport on delivery of services locally including petitions with his Onewa Road petition gathering over 4,000 signatures. [13]

Ahead of the 2020 general election he was ranked at 43 on National's party list. [14] At the election, Bidois lost Northcote to his by-election Labour opponent, Shanan Halbert, by a final margin of 2,534 votes, and was ranked too low on National's list to return to Parliament as a list MP. [15] [16]

In November 2022, the National party once again selected Bidois as their candidate for the Northcote electorate ahead of the 2023 New Zealand general election. [17] On 14 October 2023, Bidois managed to flip the seat back to National with a 9,270 vote majority, ousting incumbent Shanan Halbert, who Bidois himself had lost the seat to in 2020. [18]

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