Sarah Dowie MP |
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Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Invercargill |
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Assumed office 20 September 2014 |
Sarah Maree Dowie (born c. 1975) is a New Zealand politician who was elected to the New Zealand parliament at the 2014 general election as a representative of the New Zealand National Party.
Dowie's parents, Ann and Alan Dowie, are both police officers. At age 15 in 1990, she was a member of a semi-professional dance group in the Soviet Union. Before her election to Parliament, she worked as a lawyer. Dowie has two young children.
Dowie was selected by the National party to replace retiring MP Eric Roy in the Invercargill electorate; at the time, she had a low profile. In the 2014 election, she won with a large margin to Labour's Lesley Soper.