Arthur Anae

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Anae Lupematasila Lima Arthur John Anae Template:Post-nominals (born 1945) is a New Zealand politician who served on the Auckland Council. He was an MP from 1996 to 1999, and again from 2000 to 2002. He was part of the National Party, being its first Pasifika MP.

Early life

Anae, who was born in 1945, is Samoan, although he was born in Fiji. His family migrated to New Zealand in 1951 when he was five years old.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Member of Parliament

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Anae first stood for Parliament in the Template:NZ election link, when he contested the Template:NZ electorate link electorate; he came third on that occasion.<ref name="vote for me">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite tech report</ref> He first entered Parliament in the 1996 election as a list MP (he did not contest an electorate), but after the 1999 election, missed returning to Parliament by a single place. When Don McKinnon resigned, however, Anae entered Parliament as his replacement. In the 2002 election, Anae was ranked lowly on the party list (in 28th place), could not win the Template:NZ electorate link electorate (he came a distant second to Labour's Ross Robertson), and was thus not returned to Parliament.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> At the time, he was highly critical of the National Party for his low list ranking and perceived it as an insult to the Pacific community.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Local politics

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Anae first stood for Auckland City Council in the 1987 local elections.<ref name="vote for me" /> In October 2004 he was elected to the Manukau City Council from the Ōtara ward. He ran for the mayoralty of Manukau City in the 2007 local body elections, polling third.<ref name="NZ_Herald_10469693">Template:Cite web</ref>

In the 2010 Auckland Council elections Anae was elected from the Manukau ward to serve in the newly formed Auckland Council and served as the chair of the council's economic forum. He was re-elected in 2013, but did not stand at the 2016 elections, and opted to leave politics.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> His seat was won by Efeso Collins at the 2016 elections.

Honours and awards

In the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours, Anae was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the Samoan community.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>