Note: This database contains data from the 2023, 2022 and 2017 general elections, the 2025 local government election and is gradually being backfilled with other election data.
Contested 3 races — 0 elected 2 not elected 1 pending
Includes profiles of Dave Popplewell (New Conservatives) and William Wood (National)
"New Conservative candidate David Poppelwell was firm. Legalising cannabis and euthanasia would be the wrong call and lead down a “slippery slope”, and the daily updates on Covid-19 during ”prime-time television” was too much. Poppelwell challenged the Government’s actions during the pandemic, questioning the powers given to police."
"The National Party's teenage Palmerston North candidate William Wood has apologised after appearing to impersonate Adolf Hitler in an image resurfaced online. "The photo was taken when I was 14," Wood, 18, told Newshub in a statement on Tuesday. "It was an error on my part. I apologise for any offence that it may have caused.""
"National's 17-year-old candidate for Palmerston North, William Wood, has removed a public photograph on his Facebook page showing a friend making a hand gesture adopted by white supremacists. The photograph shows Wood and four male friends at Parliament for a mock UN Security Council summit. One friend is wearing a red baseball cap with United States President Donald Trump's election slogan "Make America Great Again" and making the "Okay" hand gesture."
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