Kenneth Wang

New Zealand Parliament
Years Term Electorate List Party
2004–2005 47th List 10 ACT

Kenneth Xiaoxuan Wang (Chinese: 王小选) (born 1955) is a former Deputy Leader of the ACT New Zealand party. He previously served as member of Parliament to replace Donna Awatere Huata, who was expelled from Parliament in November 2004.[1]

Biography

Wang was born in China, and has three siblings. He arrived in New Zealand in 1984 and is married with two children. Wang worked in the marketing and advertising sector in Auckland. He was New Zealand's second Chinese MP (with the first being Pansy Wong).

At the 2005 elections Wang contested the seat of Mt Roskill, and was seventh on ACT's party list. However, he was not returned to Parliament.

In the 2008 general election he stood unsuccessfully in the electorate of Botany for the ACT New Zealand Party. National candidate Pansy Wong filed a complaint to the electoral commission about Wang's billboards which exhorted "Vote for Wang, get Wang and Wong" (because Pansy Wong's high rank on the National Party List assured her of a seat in parliament).[2][3]

He was elected Deputy Leader of ACT in April 2014.[4] Wang resigned as Deputy Leader on 9 July 2017 after expressing disappointment with his list placing and feelings that ACT had moved away from former policies that compelled him to join the party 15 years earlier.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "New MP joins Act in Parliament". The New Zealand Herald. 23 November 2004. Retrieved 16 February 2010.
  2. ↑ "Wang Wong gone wrong". Howick and Pakuranga Times. 2 October 2008. Retrieved 16 February 2010.
  3. ↑ Tan, Lincoln (5 November 2008). "Wang accuses opponent of dirty tactics". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 16 February 2010.
  4. ↑ Shabnam Dastgheib (15 April 2014). "http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/9944101/Kenneth-Wang-elected-Act-deputy-leader". Stuff. External link in |title= (help)
  5. ↑ "Act Party deputy Kenneth Wang resigns over list ranking, party direction". The New Zealand Herald. 9 July 2017. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
Party political offices
Preceded by
John Boscawen		 Deputy Leader of ACT New Zealand
2014-2017 		Succeeded by
Beth Houlbrooke


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