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# National’s Traitor Gets the Chop
- URL: https://goodoil.news/nationals-traitor-gets-the-chop/
- Published: 2020-11-06T19:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-17T16:59:36.000Z
- Author: Cam Slater
- Tags: Election 2020, Featured, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:38

The final vote count is in and National’s traitor, **Denise Lee** has lost her seat and exits parliament. A fitting end for her treachery in the final days of the campaign.

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Backstabber of the day. Denise Lee MP for Maungakiekie

The specials massively favoured the left. The margin between left and right was only 12% on E-Day votes, a larger 26% on advance votes and a massive 38% on specials. Labour won 54.12% of the specials and National only scored 19.8%.

There were some big changes:

- Labour gains one List MP
- National loses two List MPs
- Maori Party gains a List MP
- National loses Northland, Whangarei and Maungakiekie
- Matt King and Denise Lee out of Parliament
- Shane Reti now a List MP
- Maureen Pugh and Nick Smith safe, due to King and Lee losing
- Cannabis referendum lost
- Euthanasia referendum passed

This just goes to show the damage caused to National by the failure of the **Muller/Kaye** coup. That occurred before voting opened. The slow erosion of **Simon Bridges**‘ leadership consumed a few weeks, then there was the six weeks of the failed coup leaving **Judith Collins** with an impossible task.

National really needs to come up with a strategy to counter the special votes.

It was a special kind of stupid for Denise Lee and her henchman **Mark Mitchell** to do what they did. Thankfully she is now gone. Perhaps she will find a sixth party to represent.

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