Maureen Pugh

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Maureen Pugh
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for National Party list
Assumed office
9 February 2016
Mayor of Westland
In office
2004–2013
Succeeded by Mike Havill
Personal details
Born Maureen Helena Pugh
1958 (age 65–66)
New Zealand
Nationality New Zealand
Political party National Party
Other political
affiliations		 Independent (as Mayor)

Maureen Helena Pugh ONZM (born 1958)[1][2] is a New Zealand politician who is a Member of Parliament and a member of the National Party. She has previously served as the mayor of the Westland District.

Private life

Pugh is from Kumara.[3]

Political career

Parliament of New Zealand
Years Term Electorate List Party
2016–present 51st List 52 National

Pugh was elected to the Westland District Council in 1998 and served two terms before being elected as the district's first woman mayor in 2004, succeeding John Drylie.[4] In 2007 she was returned as mayor unopposed.[5] She stood down at the 2013 elections[6] and was succeeded as mayor by Michael Havill.[7]

At the 2014 election she contested the West Coast-Tasman electorate for the New Zealand National Party.[8][9] She was ranked number 52 on the National Party list, just missing out on a seat. [10] Based on preliminary results, she would have entered Parliament,[11][12] but in the final results, National's party vote was lower and the seat she would have taken was won by the Green Party (Steffan Browning).[10] Pugh was first in line should there be a vacancy in a list seat held by a National Party MP during the 51st New Zealand Parliament, and following Tim Groser's resignation in December 2015, she was sworn in as a member of parliament on 9 February 2016 after the summer recess.[13]

In the 2014 New Year Honours, she was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to local government.[14]

References

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