Bob Edlin: Losing candidate has cause to rue spending $6426 on litigation rather than on her election campaign

We are wondering, here at PoO, what might have transpired in Porirua had a candidate who lost by just nine votes taken a different tack.

She should have done much better – we calculate – by spending more on campaigning and by taking advantage of Policy.nz’s efforts to broadcast policies to voters. See above to learn what it can tell us about the candidate in question, Jess Te Huia.