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UPDATED: The Herald reports:
No newcomers are likely to make it into Parliament on Labour's new list unless the party polls almost 32 per cent in September.
After delaying the announcement due to the ongoing controversy around donations from Donghua Liu, Labour released the list this afternoon.
The list has ensured that - assuming sitting electorate MPs ranked above them retain their seats - four of the first six MPs likely to get in on the list are women, which will meet the new requirement to have a caucus with at least 45 per cent women after the 2014 election.
They are Jacinda Ardern who is at no.5, Sue Moroney at no. 10, Maryan Street at no. 15, and Moana Mackey who is at no. 17.
However the first newcomer on the list Ministry of Women's Affairs policy analyst Priyanka Radhakrishnan at 23 won't come in unless the party polls 31.67 per cent or more.
The outlook is rather stormy for former TVNZ weatherman Tamati Coffey. He would probably need Labour to get around 34% of the party vote if he cannot win the Rotorua seat.
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The Labour Party has finally released its list after several false starts over the last two days; Stuff reports:
Policy analyst Priyanca Radhakrishnan, small business owner Rachel Jones from Tauranga and former TVNZ presenter Tamati Coffey are the top ranked non-MPs in Labour's list released today.
Five sitting MPs Ruth Dyson, Kris Faafoi, Clare Curran, Trevor Mallard and Rino Tirikatene have opted off the list as has Napier candidate Stuart Nash.
Radhakrishnan, is ranked 23, Jones 25 and Coffey, who is standing in Rotorua, is at 30.
As expected leader David Cunliffe and his deputy take out the top two slots, followed by Grant Robertson, Annette King, Jacinda Ardern and Nanaia Mahuta, who is the top-ranked Maori MP.
Maungakiekie candidate Carol Beaumont has slipped from 22 to 26.
Party president Moira Coatsworth said the list was ''an outstanding group of talented New Zealanders".
"The party's renewal and the number of skilled candidates meant that the biggest challenge was having to rank 64 people of such high calibre. We are excited by the skilled, experienced people we expect to join our Caucus team."
Cunliffe said he was delighted at the ''fantastic array of talented candidates''.
The list is made up of 30 men and 34 women. A further 16 men and five women are standing only for electorates.
LABOUR LIST
1 David Cunliffe
2 David Parker
3 Grant Robertson
4 Annette King
5 Jacinda Ardern
6 Nanaia Mahuta
7 Phil Twyford
8 Clayton Cosgrove
9 Chris Hipkins
10 Sue Moroney
11 Andrew Little
12 Louisa Wall
13 David Shearer
14 Su'a William Sio
15 Maryan Street
16 Phil Goff
17 Moana Mackey
18 Kelvin Davis
19 Meka Whaitiri
20 Megan Woods
21 Raymond Huo
22 Damien O'Connor
23 Priyanca Radhakrishnan
24 Iain Lees-Galloway
25 Rachel Jones
26 David Clark
27 Carol Beaumont
28 Poto Williams
29 Carmel Sepuloni
30 Tamati Coffey
31 Jenny Salesa
32 Liz Craig
33 Deborah Russell
34 Willow-Jean Prime
35 Jerome Mika
36 Tony Milne
37 Virginia Andersen
38 Claire Szabo
39 Michael Wood
40 Arena Williams
41 Hamish McDouall
42 Anjum Rahman
43 Sunny Kaushal
44 Christine Greer
45 Penny Gaylor
46 Janette Walker
47 Richard Hills
48 Shanan Halbert
49 Anahila Suisuiki
50 Clare Wilson
51 James Dann
52 Kelly Ellis
53 Corie Haddock
54 Jamie Strange
55 Katie Paul
56 Steven Gibson
57 Chao-Fu Wu
58 Paul Grimshaw
59 Tracey Dorreen
60 Tofik Mamedov
61 Hikiera Toroa
62 Hugh Tyler
63 Susan Elliot
64 Simon Buckingham
There are plenty of interesting features. Trevor Mallard and Clare Curran have gone electorate only, along with Ruth Dyson, Kris Faafoi and Rino Tirakatene.
Although Trevor Mallard won Hutt South by 4825 votes last time around, that was against Paul Quinn. But Mallard will be worried that the party vote in Hutt South favoured National by nearly 2000 votes in 2011. He cannot take his electorate seat for granted, and newcomer Chris Bishop is, from all reports, going to mount a very strong challenge.
Likewise Clare Curran. She won her seat by over 4000 votes in 2011, but the the first time since MMP began, Labour lost the party vote in Dunedin South by almost 2000 votes. She will have to campaign very hard against Dunedin born-and-educated Hamish Walker.
Interestingly though, a total of 21 electorate candidates are not ranked on the Labour list (16 men and 5 women). Given that some of them are likely to win their electorate seats, Labour's percentage of the party vote probably needs to get up around the 33% mark for the likes of Kelvin Davis, Moana Mackey, Raymond Huo and Carol Beaumont to get back, if they do not win their respective seats. And because of the Man-Ban, Damian O'Connor (#22) and Iain Lees-Galloway (24) will almost certainly have to win their seats to keep their jobs.
And of course, it'll get even tougher for Labour's men in 2017 when women MUST comprise 50% of caucus. We won't resile from our contention that ability is more important than gender. Labour's Man-Ban is going to haunt the party in the years ahead.
