Former Bill English press secretary Nicola Grigg now Selwyn's new MP
Newly-minted Selwyn MP Nicola Grigg might have expected a landslide victory in one of the country's safest blue seats.
And while her 5000-odd vote lead was a comfortable majority, the margin to her nearest rival took her by surprise.
“It just wasn’t what I was hearing on the ground.”
The National Party candidate, a former journalist who worked as a press secretary for Bill English when he was Prime Minister, replaces retiring MP Amy Adams.
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