Eyes are turning to Tauranga now that the Electoral Commission has revealed the names of the candidates standing in the coming by-election.
Winston Peters is not on the ballot and neither is the Māori Party, which says it will not be standing a candidate because of what it says are racial safety concerns.
But Tauranga is also the general electorate in Aotearoa with the longest run of having Māori parliamentary representation, for 28 of the past thirty years.
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University of Auckland senior political lecturer Dr Lara Greaves spoke to Susie Ferguson.
