{"id":312700,"date":"2026-03-04T14:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/312700\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T14:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:43:13","slug":"nationals-katie-nimon-confirms-bid-to-retain-napier-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/312700\/","title":{"rendered":"National\u2019s Katie Nimon confirms bid to retain Napier seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI\u2019ve fought hard to ensure our region gets the infrastructure, regulatory reform and public service investment it deserves. That work doesn\u2019t stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">Boundary changes taking place at the election mean <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/hawkes-bay-today\/news\/napier-electorate-expanded-to-take-communities-from-tukituki-electorate\/X4W5Q4H6SRA6LDTCDWUKNTKIHI\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/hawkes-bay-today\/news\/napier-electorate-expanded-to-take-communities-from-tukituki-electorate\/X4W5Q4H6SRA6LDTCDWUKNTKIHI\/\">the Napier electorate will now expand further into the Hastings district<\/a>, including communities as far south as Crownthorpe, Sherenden and Whanawhana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">Nimon said she was looking forward to representing those communities and working with them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe primary sector is doing much of the heavy lifting to rebuild our economy, so our rural communities need us right behind them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">Nimon said her approach to the role was positivity, approachability and connection to community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">During her first term she became a mother \u2013 an experience she said has strengthened her perspective.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cBecoming a mum has only enhanced my ability to serve our community. It sharpens your focus on delivering safe communities, quality healthcare, strong education and real economic opportunity for the next generation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe need to get to work on building the future \u2013 growing our local economy, backing businesses, strengthening infrastructure, and delivering better public services for Hawke\u2019s Bay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">Nimon will go up against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/hawkes-bay-today\/news\/election-2026-labour-candidate-for-napier-electorate-in-next-years-general-election-named\/2OK75MIHKJE7PPKUW5UWOKM7GM\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/hawkes-bay-today\/news\/election-2026-labour-candidate-for-napier-electorate-in-next-years-general-election-named\/2OK75MIHKJE7PPKUW5UWOKM7GM\/\">Labour\u2019s Dr Alex Hedley<\/a> for the Napier seat in the election on Saturday, November 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">Jack Riddell is a multimedia journalist with Hawke\u2019s Bay Today and has worked in radio and media in the UK, Germany, and New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019ve fought hard to ensure our region gets the infrastructure, regulatory reform and public service investment it deserves.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1040,2223,13242,5903,2294,22504,3607,3556,71084,111,43,139,112774,69,4762,56639,22309,8808,7248,1961,61,1530],"class_list":{"0":"post-312700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-bid","9":"tag-confirmed","10":"tag-confirms","11":"tag-election","12":"tag-general","13":"tag-katie","14":"tag-napier","15":"tag-national","16":"tag-nationals","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nimon","21":"tag-nz","22":"tag-party","23":"tag-reelection","24":"tag-retain","25":"tag-running","26":"tag-seat","27":"tag-this","28":"tag-to","29":"tag-years"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}