The battle for Botany

Botany is the new seat created by the boundary redistribution.  On paper it is a fairly nice seat for National, so hence some keen interest in it.  Whale Oil blogs on the four candidates:

•  Kit Parkinson
• Youngshin Watkins
• Pansy Wong
• Ken Yee

The selection meeting is on 5 February.  I don’t know Youngshin, but know the other three to varying degrees.  The selection requires an absolute majority so if no one gets over 50% of the vote, the lowest polling drops out and delegates revote.

The selection for Port Hills was this weekend. Ruth Dyson has a reasonable majority there, but it could go on a big swing. Yet to hear who won that one.