The Chowick seat
The new seat is actually named Botany, but it was proposed to name Howick before, and is bit fun to keep it this way.
The new Botany Electorate seat, should be quite interesting to watch in next election.
National has confirmed that Pansy Wong will contest this seat. About labour ... it's not yet clear whether its Chinese candidate Raymond Huo will be there as well.
Plus Kenneth Wang from the ACT, this seat will almost definitely fall in the hands of a Chinese candidate.
I cannot find the detail on the demography of the electorate, but the new seat is very likely a National seat as the area was long dominated by Nats.
However, if Kenneth Wang do his job well, like how Rodney did in Epsom in 2005, I think he has a fair chance to capture the seat as well.
In fact this seat might be quite important to ACT. After living dangerously for things like Dancing with the Stars in the last three years, I won't be surprised if Mr Hide actually loses his Epsom seat in the coming up election.
Well, it's too early to tell.
But if this happens, subject to National and Labour's overall preformance, either Sir Doug or Kenneth may needs to win the seat to keep ACT in the Parliament. Sir Doug will attempt another new seat: Hunua (which is the area around the Hunua Ranges), which is also another National dominated area.
Kenneth Wang, although not very well-known, has possibly more popularity in Chinese community among the other two contestant.
I known all three fairly well. What I like about Kenneth is, he really believes in ideology of the Party he represents (although I'm bit leftie). The other two, they are just the "I don't care where, as long as I'm Mayor MP" type of politician, especially for the "Raymondo" Huo, he just went for the party which gives him the highest party rank.
I personally do not trust those MPs, even if they are Chinese.
It will also maximise the number of Asian MPs in the Parliament as other two "I don't care where" will get in the Parliament through the party lists anyway.
So if you happens to be a Chinese live in the area, why not consider vote ACT in this election?
