Matthew Doocey

Matthew Doocey MP
Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Waimakariri
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 September 2014
Preceded by	Kate Wilkinson

Matthew Maurice Doocey is a New Zealand politician who was elected to the New Zealand parliament at the 2014 general election as a representative of the New Zealand National Party.

Personal life

Doocey is a member of the well-known Carter family. Family patriarch Maurice Carter, a Christchurch City Councillor for over 40 years (1956–1989), was his grandfather, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, David Carter, is his uncle. Doocey grew up in Christchurch and attended St Bede's College for his secondary schooling. The Dooceys bought their current home in Redwood, which currently falls into the Waimakariri electorate, in April 2011.

Political career

Parliament of New Zealand
Years	Term	Electorate	List	Party
2014–present	51st	Waimakariri	56	National

Doocey stood in the 2013 Christchurch East by-election, placing second behind Poto Williams. At the time, Doocey was a manager for the Canterbury District Health Board. The party's Canterbury Westland Regional Chair, Roger Bridge, noted that a sitting government has never won a by-election in an electorate that it did not already hold. Bridge later conceded that it would be "very, very hard for us to win". When Kate Wilkinson, National MP for the Waimakariri electorate, announced in early November 2013 that she would retire at the end of the term of the 50th Parliament, rumours immediately surfaced that Doocey is going to replace her as the candidate in the Waimakariri electorate, and the Christchurch East by-election was for him to gain experience in contesting an election.

Doocey left his job in June 2014 to focus on the Waimakariri election campaign. He beat Labour's Clayton Cosgrove with an increased majority compared to the 2011 election.

For the 51st New Zealand Parliament Doocey has been appointed as Deputy Chair of the Social Services Select Committee.