Lesley Soper

Lesley Soper
Soper in 2008
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Labour party list
In office
4 April 2005 – 17 September 2005
Preceded byJonathan Hunt[a]
In office
19 February 2007 – 8 November 2008
Preceded byGeorgina Beyer[a]
Personal details
Born (1954-11-05) 5 November 1954 (age 70)
Invercargill, New Zealand
Political partyLabour

Lesley Frances Soper (born 5 November 1954) is a former New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.

Political career

New Zealand Parliament
Years Term Electorate List Party
2005 47th List 43 Labour
2007–2008 48th List 45 Labour

She was a Labour Party list member of Parliament for several months in 2005, replacing Jonathan Hunt,[1] and she returned to Parliament in 2007 to fill the vacancy caused by Georgina Beyer's resignation.

Soper first stood for Parliament in 1993. She stood in the Wallace electorate, coming runner-up to National's Bill English.[2] She then proceeded to contest the Clutha-Southland seat since it was created in the 1996 election,[3] again placing second to English on each occasion. Soper was ranked 43rd on Labour's party list in the 2002 election.[4] While initially missing out on entering parliament, she was able to enter Parliament upon the retirement of Jonathan Hunt, being declared elected on 4 April 2005 and sworn in the following day.[5] In the 2005 election, Soper had hoped to contest the Invercargill seat, but was defeated in the nomination process by Wayne Harpur. Her position on the 2005 list was forty-fifth, and she did not return to parliament until 2007.

Soper stood in the Invercargill electorate in the 2008, 2011, and 2014 elections, twice beaten by National's Eric Roy and then by Sarah Dowie.[6][7][8] After her 2014 defeat, Soper declared that she would not stand again.[9] She contested and won a seat on the Invercargill City Council in 2016.[10]

Other activities

In addition to serving as Women's Vice President of the Labour Party, Soper has worked for the Council of Trade Unions and the New Zealand Educational Institute. She has also served on the Southland District Health Board.

Notes

  1. ^ a b Normally, list MPs do not have individual predecessors or successors, but Soper succeeded Hunt and then Beyer following their resignations during sitting parliaments.

References

  1. ^ "New list MP for Labour Party". elections.nz. 4 April 2005. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  2. ^ Part 1: Votes recorded at each polling place (Technical report). New Zealand Chief Electoral Office. 1993.
  3. ^ "Electorate Candidate and Party Votes Recorded at Each Polling Place – Clutha-Southland, 1996" (PDF). Retrieved 11 July 2013.
  4. ^ "Party Lists of Successful Registered Parties". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  5. ^ "New list MP for Labour Party" (Press release). Electoral Commission. 4 April 2005. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
  6. ^ 2008 election results Archived 11 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Invercargill results, 2011
  8. ^ "Official Count Results – Invercargill (2014)". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  9. ^ Berwick, Louise; Mcdougall, Nicci; Mcleod, Hannah (20 September 2014). "Soper won't stand again as Dowie wins city vote". The Southland Times. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
  10. ^ Goodwin, Eileen (10 October 2016). "Shadbolt back for eighth term". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 15 March 2018.

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