Post-election catch-up w/ the ACT Party's Simon Court: 9th November, 2026
When we last spoke to Simon Court, we both expressed how excited we were for the result of the election. It turns out that we’ve still got a wee while to wait, with this weekend’s result still up for change when results from special votes arrive on November 27th.
With that in mind, we decided to chat about the election results that we can observe - four new MPs for ACT but a loss in the Tāmaki electorate previously held by former deputy Brooke van Velden.
Given the range of possible outcomes, we spoke about all of them - governments with and without Opportunity and what the ACT party could…
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