John Banks | |
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Leader of ACT New Zealand | |
In office 16 February 2012 – 1 March 2014 | |
Preceded by | Don Brash |
Succeeded by | Jamie Whyte |
38th Mayor of Auckland City | |
In office 1 November 2007 – 31 October 2010 | |
Preceded by | Dick Hubbard |
Succeeded by | Office abolished Len Brown (as Mayor of Auckland) |
In office 1 November 2001 – 31 October 2004 | |
Preceded by | Christine Fletcher |
Succeeded by | Dick Hubbard |
29th Minister of Police | |
In office 2 November 1990 – 2 March 1994 | |
Prime Minister | Jim Bolger |
Preceded by | Richard Prebble |
Succeeded by | John Luxton |
Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Whangarei | |
In office 28 November 1981 – 27 November 1999 | |
Preceded by | John Elliott |
Succeeded by | Phil Heatley |
Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Epsom | |
In office 12 December 2011 – 8 June 2014 | |
Preceded by | Rodney Hide |
Succeeded by | David Seymour |
Minister for Small Business | |
In office 12 December 2011 – October 2013 | |
Prime Minister | John Key |
Preceded by | Maurice Williamson |
Succeeded by | Steven Joyce |
Minister for Regulatory Reform | |
In office 12 December 2011 – October 2013 | |
Prime Minister | John Key |
Preceded by | Rodney Hide |
Succeeded by | Bill English |
Personal details | |
Born | John Archibald Banks 2 December 1946 Wellington, New Zealand |
Political party | ACT New Zealand |
Other political affiliations | National Party (until 2011) |
Spouse | Amanda Medcalf |
Children | 4 |
John Archibald Banks CNZM QSO JP (born 2 December 1946) is a New Zealand former politician. He was a member of Parliament for the National Party from 1981 to 1999, and for ACT New Zealand from 2011 to 2014. He was a Cabinet Minister from 1990 to 1996 and 2011 to 2013. He left Parliament after being convicted of filing a false electoral return – a verdict which was later overturned.[1][2][3][4]
In between his tenures in Parliament, he served as Mayor of Auckland City for two terms, from 2001 to 2004 and from 2007 to 2010.[5] When seven former smaller councils were combined into one to run the Auckland 'supercity' in 2010, Banks unsuccessfully ran for mayor again.[6] The electoral return that he filed after that campaign, detailing donations received and campaign expenses, was the subject of Banks' conviction and eventual acquittal.[3][7] After new evidence came to light, it was decided in May 2015 that there would be no retrial.
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