Heather Roy
19 October 2020
Opinion Piece published in the Sunday Star Times on Sunday 18 October 2020
David Seymour has often lamented he’d like some friends to join him at parliament. It’s a lonely place at the best of times, but no-one knows this better than Seymour who has manned the ACT Parliamentary Party on his own for two parliamentary terms.
Now the electorate at large has given him not just one or two friends but likely nine as last night’s election result revealed.
Forget the two big old parties slogging it out for no change for government; this election has been David Seymour’s and therefore ACT’s.
Their fortunes began rising a little at the start of the year, climbing to a steady 7 – 8 percent throughout the election campaign. This is ACT’s best election ever, with 10 MPs making their way to parliament, trumping the nine strong…
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