{"id":378671,"date":"2026-04-14T08:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/378671\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T08:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:38:10","slug":"former-all-black-captain-taine-randell-to-stand-for-nz-first-in-hawkes-bay-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/378671\/","title":{"rendered":"Former All Black captain Taine Randell to stand for NZ First in Hawke\u2019s Bay seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"IIpIdusEwT\" style=\"display:none\">The Tukituki electorate, which includes Hastings, Havelock North and parts of Central Hawke\u2019s Bay, was won in 2023 by National MP Catherine Wedd, who beat Labour\u2019s Anna Lorck by about 10,000 votes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"IIpIdusEwT\" style=\"display:none\">Lorck had secured the seat in 2020 amid the surge in support for Labour which helped the party achieve a parliamentary majority. <\/p>\n<p class=\"IIpIdusEwT\" style=\"display:none\">Labour is yet to confirm its Tukituki candidate for the upcoming election. <\/p>\n<p class=\"IIpIdusEwT\" style=\"display:none\">Adam Pearse is the Deputy Political Editor and part of the NZ Herald\u2019s Press Gallery team based at Parliament in Wellington. He has worked for NZME since 2018, reporting for the Northern Advocate in Whang\u0101rei and the Herald in Auckland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tukituki electorate, which includes Hastings, Havelock North and parts of Central Hawke\u2019s Bay, was won in 2023&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5263,1561,7022,19956,13381,42678,1888,4760,2082,2740,1976,78,111,139,69,172766,7248,213,14446,171075,61,121079,1533,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-378671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-all","9":"tag-bay","10":"tag-black","11":"tag-candidate","12":"tag-captain","13":"tag-electorate","14":"tag-first","15":"tag-firsts","16":"tag-for","17":"tag-former","18":"tag-hawkes","19":"tag-in","20":"tag-new-zealand","21":"tag-newzealand","22":"tag-nz","23":"tag-randell","24":"tag-seat","25":"tag-sports","26":"tag-stand","27":"tag-taine","28":"tag-to","29":"tag-tukituki","30":"tag-will","31":"tag-zealand"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378671","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=378671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}