Dear John,

On Saturday, our newest MP Sam Uffindell won a hard-fought by-election campaign in Tauranga with 10,931 votes or 56.3%.

Sam currently holds a margin of 6,038 votes over his nearest rival, Labour’s Jan Tinetti, who, with 4,893 votes or 25.2%, turned in the worst performance in Tauranga in some time.*

National’s strong result in Tauranga reflects the tremendous hard work of Sam and our Tauranga campaign team who worked tirelessly for every single vote received by:

• attending more than 50 media interviews, public meetings and debates
• putting up nearly 300 signs
• holding 20 sign waving sessions
• hand delivering 50,000 fliers and letters
• knocking on 5,000 doors
• phoning more than 7,000 people
• hosting 22 National MP visits
• calling on hundreds of businesses, and
• personally greeting thousands of voters.

What’s clear is that the people of Tauranga have reflected what New Zealanders at large are feeling. They’re fed up with a Labour Government that cannot get things done. They’re fed up with Labour making the cost of living crisis worse through excessive spending that is achieving nothing. They’re fed up with exploding gang violence and with seeing worsening results in education, health and welfare.

But what the Tauranga result also shows is that the National Party is back in business.

We are heading into the 2023 General Election with a professional, well organised campaign machine ready to run a strong party vote campaign across New Zealand.

To do that though, we really need your support.

Every dollar helps so please donate to our 2023 campaign fund here and help us change the government next year.  

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Thank you for your support.

Christopher Luxon
National Party Leader

*Official Tauranga election results – 2017: Nat 54.3%, Lab 25.9%; 2020: Nat 42.8%, Lab 38.5%; 2022: Nat 56.3%, Lab: 25.2%. [Source: Electoral Commission]