THE CONCLUSION

The New Plymouth Independent made the difference.

The most marginal seat this election is New Plymouth – Before the specials were counted Harry Duynhoven Labour got (15239 Votes) to Jonathan Young National ( 15553 Votes) a margin of 314 . Next highest was me Rusty Kane Independent at ( 693 Votes ) because of my direct campaign against Harry combined with the swing to National the majority of my votes came of Harry's Labour vote. So the New Plymouth Independent Seat made the difference to Labours Harry Duynhoven losing and Nationals Jonathan Young winning the New Plymouth seat. The specials would have had to be 6.1% better for Labour and worse for National for Harry to win. The margin would still be within the 500-700 votes margin I held. New Plymouth looked to be the only seat which could have seriously changed, and that never was going to happen with my intervention. Which has proved even more so to be the case now the specials have been counted. The margin being reduced to only around 100 votes. The New Plymouth Indepentent Seat may have only come third in the vote count, but each and every vote for Rusty Kane Independent and the New Plymouth Indepentent Seat was very effective in deciding the outcome here in New Plymouth. It made the difference that keeped Harry out and Jonathan in.

Rusty Kane NP