Anna Lorck

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Anna Lorck
MP
Anna Lorck.jpg
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Tukituki
Incumbent
Assumed office
17 October 2020
Preceded byLawrence Yule
Personal details
Political partyLabour
Spouse(s)Damon Harvey
Children5
ProfessionBusiness owner
WebsiteLabour Party profile

Anna Louise Lorck[1] is a New Zealand politician of the New Zealand Labour Party. She was elected to the New Zealand House of Representatives at the 2020 general election as the MP for Tukituki.[2]

Early life and career[]

Lorck grew up in Waipukurau and trained as a journalist. Before entering parliament, she owned a public relations company.[3]

Political career[]

New Zealand Parliament
Years Term Electorate List Party
2020–present 53rd Tukituki none Labour


At the 2014 election, Lorck, a Hastings business woman, stood as a candidate in the Tukituki electorate for the Labour Party, and did not stand on the Labour list. As a first time candidate she made significant progress into the margin against incumbent Craig Foss, and announced she would stand again at the 2017 election. She was ranked 46 on the Labour party list.[4]

Before standing as a Labour candidate, Lorck, who had vocally opposed Labour sacking the Hawke's Bay District Health Board (DHB), volunteered to phone canvass to motivate voter turnout for two hours for the National Party. She was never a member of the party.[5] During a tightly fought contest, in July 2017 a complaint by a right-wing blogger, was made against Lorck to the Advertising Standards Authority over her billboard wording of "Your Local MP". Lorck responded by stating the intention of the message was to convey that she lived in the Tukituki electorate while National candidate Lawrence Yule lived in neighboring Napier.[6] Lorck again made significant inroads into the majority but was not elected, nor ranked high enough on the Labour list to be elected to Parliament.[7]

In 2019 Lorck was elected to the Hawke's Bay DHB, as the highest polling new candidate.[8] She served as part of the governance of the region's response to COVID-19. Lorck advocates for a local cardiology centre, costed at $15 million, to enable life-saving surgery locally.[7]

At the 2020 general election, Lorck was selected as the Labour candidate for Tukituki for the third time. She was given the Labour Party's endorsement to run a local MP campaign and consequently was not on the party list.[7] This time she unseated Yule by a margin of 1590 votes, returning the electorate to Labour for the first time since 2002.[9][10]

Personal life[]

Lorck is married to Hastings District Councillor Damon Harvey.[11][12] They have a blended family of five children.[12]

References[]

  1. ^ "Event - New Zealand Parliament". www.parliament.nz.
  2. ^ "Election 2020: The 40 diverse new MPs entering Parliament". Newstalk ZB. 18 October 2020. Archived from the original on 22 October 2020. Retrieved 16 November 2020 – via The New Zealand Herald.
  3. ^ Joyce, Diane (19 March 2014). "Lorck is Labour's latest candidate". Hastings Mail. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  4. ^ "Revised Labour Party List for the 2017 Election". Scoop. 15 August 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  5. ^ Christian, Harrison (23 June 2014). "I'm no Nat, says Labour candidate Anna Lorck". Hawke's Bay Today. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
  6. ^ Sharpe, Marty (25 July 2017). "Complaints made over billboard that appears to say candidate is local MP when she is not". Hawke's Bay Today. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
  7. ^ a b c Sharpe, Marty (7 October 2020). "Can Labour's Anna Lorck make it 'third-time lucky' in Tukituki?". Stuff. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  8. ^ Lampp, Warwick (18 October 2019). "Hawke's Bay District Health Board: 2019 Triennial Elections" (PDF). Hawke's Bay District Health Board. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  9. ^ "Tukituki - Official Result". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  10. ^ Gilbertson, Georgia-May (18 October 2020). "National's Lawrence Yule on being ousted in Tukituki after 20 years in Hawke's Bay politics". Stuff. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  11. ^ Harvey, Damon; Lorck, Anna (27 August 2018). "Decision of BSA and announcement of defamation proceedings" (Press release). Scoop. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
  12. ^ a b "Local Focus: MP Anna Lorck ends husband Damon Harvey's political ambition". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
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Preceded by Member of Parliament for Tukituki
2020–present 		Incumbent
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