The Tauranga by-election confirmed Labour’s slide in popularity, with its candidate, the newly promoted Cabinet minister Jan Tinetti, winning only 25% of the vote, 14% less than in 2020.
But Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern didn’t see it that way. She said Tinetti received one of the better results the party has recorded in Tauranga in a number of decades.
In somewhat convoluted English, she further said:
“I think actually for by-elections, it’s very hard to read into them as someone who’s run in a by-election myself because it’s just simply not the same as in general elections, you don’t often have every party represented, so I’m not quick to read into individual outcomes.”
Tinetti came in with a very similar proportion of the vote to the support Labour received in Tauranga when it became the government in 2017, Ardern said.
But it was difficult to extrapolate too many lessons from…
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