So good to see this amazing young wahine cleaning up — 'An obligation to my people' - Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke to return to Parliament after landslide win | RNZ:

In preliminary results, Maipi-Clarke secured 68.6 percent of the electorate vote, more than double the 28.8 percent received by her closest challenger, Labour's Kiingi Kiriona.

See also Wow, watch the first 90 seconds of the Maiden Speech of NZ's youngest Member of Parliament… and Watch: Haka interrupts vote for the Treaty Principles Bill | RNZ.

@Miraz maybe it’s me - but I found the first link impossible to get to the video - so sourced it throught a different route in case anyone else has the same issue.

www.youtube.com/watch

@JohnPhilpin Thanks for that. I’ll update the link. That one came from an older post of mine. I didn’t realise the link had died.

@JohnPhilpin In these times cynicism is justified…