November 2019 Tengatangi-Areora-Ngatiarua by-election

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A by-election was held in the Cook Islands electorate of Tengatangi-Areora-Ngatiarua on 14 November 2019. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of MP Te-Hani Brown following an earlier by-election. The by-election was won by Te-Hani Brown. [1]

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Background

The March 2019 Tengatangi-Areora-Ngatiarua by-election was won by Te Hani Brown. [2] Following the by-election, Democratic party candidate Nandi Glassie filed a petition against her victory, alleging that she had effectively bribed voters by covering the charge of a private aircraft to carry voters to vote on Atiu. Brown maintained that this did not constitute an offence. [3] Brown resigned in April 2019 during the process of the petition through the courts and although Glassie was allowed to challenge the election result, this was reversed on appeal. [3] [4] Brown's seat was declared vacant in September 2019, triggering the by-election. [5]

Glassie was too ill to contest the by-election, [6] and the Democratic party instead selected businesswoman June Baudinet. [7] [8]

Results

CandidatePartyVotes%
Te-Hani Brown Independent9574.80
June Baudinet Democratic Party 3225.20
Total127100.00
Source: [9]

References

  1. ↑ "Atiu by-election win for Hon Te Hani Brown a 'huge endorsement of the Government'". Pacific Women in Politics. 15 November 2019. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
  2. ↑ "Te-Hani Brown hangs on to seat in Cook Islands". RNZ. 20 March 2019. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
  3. 1 2 "Cook Islands electoral petition decision reserved". Radio New Zealand . 29 May 2019. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
  4. ↑ "Re-elected Cooks MP resigns during petition process". Radio New Zealand . 5 April 2019. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
  5. ↑ "DECLARATION OF VACANT SEAT IN THE PARLIAMENT OF THE COOK ISLANDS" (PDF). Government of the Cook Islands . 26 September 2019. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
  6. ↑ "Veteran Cook Islands politician Glassie ill – reports". RNZ. 10 October 2019. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
  7. ↑ Newport, Christina (2021). "Cook Islands" . The Contemporary Pacific. 33 (1): 182–192. doi:10.1353/cp.2021.0010 . Retrieved 18 June 2022.
  8. ↑ Rashneel Kumar (18 October 2019). "Young and old go head to head in Atiu's by-election". Cook Islands News. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
  9. ↑ "The Cook Islands Gazette No. 88/2019" (PDF). Parliament of the Cook Islands. 19 November 2019.
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