PHOTO: GREGOR RICHARDSONThe Green Party is launching an ambitious and potentially divisive campaign to capture the Dunedin seat from Labour. "For the Dunedin campaign, we’re doing something that we’ve not done before, which is asking for the candidate vote as well as the party vote," Mr Hernandez said. "We do see Dunedin as a two-horse race between Labour and the Greens." Mr Hernandez came third in the electorate race but the Greens ran a strong second on party votes — 11,449, to Labour’s 13,160. Mr Willis polled 3898 personal votes in Taieri in 2023, when running a purely party vote candidate.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 01, 2026 15:51 UTC