Some interesting points concerning MPs who are defeated in their electorate but get in via the party list. http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2011...candidacy.html
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The feeling here is that these MPs have been "given the boot" by their electorates, and so it is unfair in some way that they return "by the back door" . . . People might also want to remember that there are different scales of loss. Was Paula Bennett, who lost by 11 votes, "given the boot" by the people of Waitakere? Was Brendon Burns, who fell 47 votes short, "kicked out" by the voters of Christchurch Central? In a tight electorate contest, there doesn't seem much of a mandate for preventing someone from taking up a list seat).
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