John Gordon Elliott

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John Gordon Elliott QSM (born 5 November 1938) is a former New Zealand politician of the National Party.

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New Zealand Parliament
YearsTermElectorateParty
1975 –1978 38th Whangarei National
1978 –1981 39th Whangarei National

Elliott was born in 1938 in Whangarei. He received his education at Whangarei Boys' High School and at the University of Auckland. He obtained an MA (Hons) and a diploma in teaching, and was a teacher from 1959 until 1975, including deputy principal of Bayfield School in his last two years in the profession. [1]

Whangarei Regional City in Northland, New Zealand

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He won the Whangarei electorate from Murray Robert Smith in 1975 and was re-elected in 1978, [2] but failed to win the reselection by the National Party in 1981, who instead chose John Banks. Instead, Elliot stood in the New Lynn electorate as an independent in the 1981 election against the incumbent from the Labour Party, Jonathan Hunt, but he was unsuccessful. [1] [3]

Whangarei (New Zealand electorate) Current New Zealand electorate

Whangarei is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate that was first created for the 1972 election. The electorate is a reasonably safe National seat, and was held for long periods by John Banks (1981–1999) and Phil Heatley (1999–2014), before being won in the 2014 election by Shane Reti.

Murray Robert Smith was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.

John Banks (New Zealand politician) New Zealand politician

John Archibald Banks is a New Zealand politician. He was a member of Parliament for the National Party from 1981 to 1999, and for ACT New Zealand from 2011 to 2014. He was a Cabinet Minister from 1990 to 1996 and 2011 to 2013. He left Parliament after being a convicted of filing a false electoral return – a verdict which was later overturned.

In 1989, Elliott launched his newsletter business. which included the monthly publication Ponsonby Community Newsletter. He ran the business under Bayfield Services Limited. In 2004, Elliott sold the publication to publisher Martin Leach, who changed the name to Ponsonby News.

Elliott was awarded a Queen's Service Medal in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to the community. [4]

The 2019 New Year Honours in New Zealand were appointments by Elizabeth II in her right as Queen of New Zealand, on the advice of the New Zealand government, to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders, and to celebrate the passing of 2018 and the beginning of 2019. They were announced on 31 December 2018.

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  1. 1 2 Gustafson 1986, p. 309.
  2. ↑ Wilson 1985, p. 195.
  3. ↑ Wilson 1985, p. 206.
  4. ↑ "New Year honours list 2019". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2018. Retrieved 31 December 2018.

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Barry Selwyn Gustafson is a New Zealand political scientist and historian, and a leading political biographer. He served for nearly four decades as Professor of Political Studies at the University of Auckland, and as Acting Director of the New Zealand Asia Institute from 2004 to 2006. He has contested various general elections, first for the Labour Party and later for the National Party, coming second each time.

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New Zealand Parliament
Preceded by
Murray Robert Smith 		Member of Parliament for Whangarei
1975–1981		Succeeded by
John Banks


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