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Penny Simmonds after being invested as a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2016, when she led the Southern Institute of Technology. She has held the Invercargill seat for a third term with a preliminary majority of 9615. File photo. Photo: Office of the Governor-General / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

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Simmonds holds Invercargill by 9615 votes as National's party vote in the city slides to 33.7 per cent

Penny Simmonds has won a third term in Invercargill with 19,727 votes to Labour candidate Janice Lee's 10,112 on the preliminary count, but National's party vote in the electorate fell by more than 4700 from 2023.

8 Nov 2026

Central Invercargill. Eleven candidates are contesting the Invercargill and Southland electorates at Saturday's general election. File photo. Photo: Stephen Colebourne / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

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Simmonds and Mooney defend 9800 and 17,000 majorities as 11 candidates contest Southland's two seats

Five candidates are standing in Invercargill and six in Southland on Saturday. National's Penny Simmonds and Joseph Mooney start as heavy favourites, but list rankings mean the seats decide whether several of them reach Parliament at all.

4 Nov 2026