He stood in Tukituki in the first MMP election in 1996, and again in 1999, 2002, and 2005, and in Napier in 2008 and 2011.<\/p>\n
Born and raised in Hawke\u2019s Bay, and going to Hereworth School and Havelock North High School, Johno Ormond holds a BA from the University of Otago, with further English literature papers at Victoria in Wellington.<\/p>\n
Ormond worked in parliamentary communications for 2017-2020 National Party and Tukituki MP Lawrence Yule, but says earlier political pretensions varied from being involved during the early days of his father\u2019s campaign in his youth to a role in the Save the Keirunga Oaks campaign in Havelock North in 2019.<\/p>\n
Roll on 2026 and, while not seeking a particularly high place on the party list, he says he has joined a \u201cstrong\u201d local Act network and intends serving the party as a campaigner and candidate for years to come.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m in for the long haul,\u201d Ormond said. <\/p>\n
Yet to learn whether he\u2019s been left to the tactical ploys of electioneering, he is the fourth candidate listed for the race in Napier in the November 7 election, although nominations don\u2019t open until September 7.<\/p>\n
The others are sitting first-term MP Katie Nimon (National), former Labour MP Stuart Nash, now standing for New Zealand First, and new Labour hopeful Alex Hedley.<\/p>\n
Act was not represented in Napier at the 2014 or 2017 elections and Ormond will be the third different candidate for the party in the electorate in the 2020s.<\/p>\n
In March, Act confirmed a second campaign in Tukituki for Rob Douglas, nephew of party founder and former Labour Cabinet minister Sir Roger Douglas, but the Government coalition partner has not yet named a candidate for Wairarapa.<\/p>\n
Doug Laing is a Hawke\u2019s Bay Today reporter, based in Napier, with more than 50 years in journalism – that\u2019s 17 General Elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He stood in Tukituki in the first MMP election in 1996, and again in 1999, 2002, and 2005,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[33038,2246,4619,23503,9526,12642,53192,19956,21323,5903,3232,2294,1976,78,5126,15220,2190,13617,16556,3607,111,43,139,69,1118,90,8595,45137,223,2044,1533,102,1530],"class_list":["post-494992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-16th","tag-2246","tag-act","tag-acts","tag-another","tag-appear","tag-ballot","tag-candidate","tag-candidates","tag-election","tag-fourth","tag-general","tag-hawkes","tag-in","tag-john","tag-line","tag-long","tag-name","tag-naming","tag-napier","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-on","tag-ormond","tag-papers","tag-the","tag-time","tag-will","tag-with","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494992","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=494992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}