Brent Catchpole is a New Zealand politician. He is a member of

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and served as president of the party.

Professional life

Before entering politics, Catchpole worked first as an

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and then as a

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director for a tourism company. He now works as a political lobbying consultant. In 2015 he was elected party president of

Political career

Member of Parliament

He was elected to

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as a

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in the 2002 election, but lost his seat in the

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. He was his party's spokesperson on Communications & IT, Environment, Biosecurity, Internal Affairs, and Tourism portfolios.

Local body politics

In 2007 he was elected to the

Papakura District Council Papakura District was a local council territory in New Zealand, New Zealand's Auckland Region that was governed by the Papakura District Council from 1989 until 2010. The area makes up the southernmost part of the Auckland metropolitan area. ...

in the Ardmore ward. He had also contested the Papakura mayoralty that year, but placed third behind Calum Penrose, who was successful, and the incumbent John Robertson. In the 2010 local body elections, he stood for the

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and the Counties Manukau

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. He was successful with the local board, but unsuccessful with the District Health Board. Catchpole was re-elected to the Papakura Local Board at the 2016 Auckland elections and again at the 2019 Auckland elections.

References

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