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Monday, 22 September 2014 10:30

Easy wins for Kuriger, Muller

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Easy wins for Kuriger, Muller

Two prominent rural personalities easily won their parliamentary seats on National tickets Saturday night.


The inaugural Dairy Woman of the Year, Barbara Kuriger romped home in Taranaki-King Country; she polled 20,000 votes, 15,000 more than her nearest rival.


Former Fonterra executive Todd Muller breezed to victory in Bay of Plenty; he polled 20,000 votes and enjoyed a margin of 14,000 votes.


Kuriger will fill Shane Ardern's gumboots; Ardern retired after 16 years in politics.


In 2012 Kuriger was awarded the inaugural Dairy Women of the Year which came with a Fonterra scholarship to participate in the Global Women's breakthrough leadership program, from which she graduated in September 2013.


She also served as a board member for DairyNZ until her nomination.


Muller, 45 served as a general manager for Zespri; he resigned as group director cooperative affairs for Fonterra after his nomination.


He is a Waikato University councillor, and sits on the boards of Plant and Food Research and the Sustainable Business Council.

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