Arthur Anae
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Arthur Anae (born 1945) is a New Zealand politician who served on the Auckland Council. He was an MP from 1996 to 1999, and again from 2000 to 2002. He was part of the National Party, being its first Pasifika MP.
Early life
Anae, who was born in 1945, is Samoan, although he was born in Fiji. His family migrated to New Zealand in 1951 when he was five years old.{{cite web |title=trustees |url=http://www.fieldofdreams.org.nz/trustees.aspx#arthur_anae |publisher=John Walker Find Your Field of Dreams Foundation |accessdate=19 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170514152316/http://www.fieldofdreams.org.nz/trustees.aspx#arthur_anae |archive-date=14 May 2017 |url-status=dead }}
Member of Parliament
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Anae first stood for Parliament in the {{NZ election link|1993}}, when he contested the {{NZ electorate link|Auckland Central}} electorate; he came third on that occasion.{{cite news |title=Vote for me: Arthur Anae, Manukau |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=3590431 |accessdate=19 May 2017 |work=The New Zealand Herald |date=10 September 2004}}{{cite tech report |ref={{sfnref|Election results|1993}} |title=Part 1: Votes recorded at each polling place |publisher=New Zealand Chief Electoral Office |year=1993 }} He first entered Parliament in the 1996 election as a list MP (he did not contest an electorate), but after the 1999 election, missed returning to Parliament by a single place. When Don McKinnon resigned, however, Anae entered Parliament as his replacement. In the 2002 election, Anae was ranked lowly on the party list (in 28th place), could not win the {{NZ electorate link|Manukau East}} electorate (he came a distant second to Labour's Ross Robertson), and was thus not returned to Parliament.{{cite web|title=Official Count Results -- Manukau East|url=http://www.electionresults.govt.nz/electionresults_2002/electorate-24.html|publisher=Chief Electoral Office |accessdate=19 May 2017}} At the time, he was highly critical of the National Party for his low list ranking and perceived it as an insult to the Pacific community.{{cite news |title=National 'must change or turn into dinosaur'|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=2347261|accessdate=19 May 2017|work=The New Zealand Herald |date=31 July 2002}}
Local politics
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Anae first stood for Auckland City Council in the 1987 local elections. In October 2004 he was elected to the Manukau City Council from the Ōtara ward. He ran for the mayoralty of Manukau City in the 2007 local body elections, polling third.{{cite web |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10469693 |title=Local Government election results 2007 |date=13 October 2007 |work=The New Zealand Herald |accessdate=16 September 2011}}
In the 2010 Auckland Council elections Anae was elected from the Manukau ward to serve in the newly formed Auckland Council and served as the chair of the council's economic forum. He was re-elected in 2013, but did not stand at the 2016 elections, and opted to leave politics.{{cite web|url=http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11687246|title=Auckland councillors bowing out|first=New Zealand|last=Herald|date=7 August 2016 }} His seat was won by Efeso Collins at the 2016 elections.
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Category:New Zealand people of Samoan descent
Category:New Zealand National Party MPs
Category:People from the Auckland Region
Category:Manukau City Councillors
Category:Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives
Category:Unsuccessful candidates in the 1999 New Zealand general election
Category:Unsuccessful candidates in the 2002 New Zealand general election
Category:21st-century New Zealand politicians
Category:Unsuccessful candidates in the 1993 New Zealand general election