Richard Prosser
| Member of the New Zealand Parliament for New Zealand First party list |
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15 January 1967 West Auckland |
| Political party | New Zealand First (2010 – present) |
Richard Ivor Prosser (born 15 January 1967) is a New Zealand politician and a current member of the New Zealand House of Representatives. He is a member of New Zealand First party and was selected as a list MP at the 2011 election.
Prosser was born in West Auckland and spent his early life in the Waikato. He later moved to Otago and took up wine making. He is a former columnist for Investigate magazine.
Prosser stood for the Democrats for Social Credit in the 2005 election in the Otago electorate. He was ranked fourth on their party list but the party failed to get any MPs elected. Prosser later ran for the Central Otago mayoralty in 2007 and came last in the election contested by three applicants. He also contested the 2007 local elections for a position as Central Otago District councillor in the Earnscleugh-Manuherikia Ward, but came third of three contenders.
Prosser founded the South Island Party in 2008. However the party chose not to register for the 2008 parliamentary elections; instead, they decided that a more effective course of action would be to merge itself into the non-partisan South Island First, a lobby group advocating greater self-determination for the South Island.
Prosser joined New Zealand First in 2010 after attending a party meeting and was later elected to the party's board of directors.
Prosser stood for New Zealand First at the 2011 election and was ranked fourth on their party list. He ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Waimakariri electorate, getting 538 votes, but was selected from the party list and is now sitting in the 50th Parliament. He is one of two New Zealand First MPs from the greater Christchurch area; the other is Denis O'Rourke.
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