ACT will have a candidate in Napier

Judy Kendall, the new ACT Party candidate in Napier at this year's General Election. Photo / Supplied.

The ACT Party will have its first candidate in the Napier electorate since 2011 with the naming of its hopeful for this year's General Election.

The new candidate is Napier woman and former parliamentary employee Judy Kendall, one of 49 hopefuls named by ACT leader and sole MP David Seymour on Sunday.

She becomes the fifth candidate named to contest Napier in the election, currently set for September 19.

She will be up against Minister of Police and Labour Party incumbent Stuart Nash, National Party candidate Katie Nimon, Green Party hopeful James Crow and New Conservative candidate Deborah Burnside.

No ACT candidate has yet been named for the Hastings-based Tukituki electorate, but Thailand-based schoolteacher Roger Greenslade, a former Wairarapa College staff member who still owns a home in Masterton, has been chosen to represent the party for a second time in Wairarapa, which includes Central Hawke's Bay and Tararua.

Roger Greenslade, second-time candidate for the ACT Party in Wairarapa. Photo / Supplied

Kendall grew up in Wellington, where she worked in Parliament as an administrative support officer for the Clerk of the House of Representatives.

According to a brief party profile she has a wide range of experience including dairy and sheep and beef farming as well as company management, and she is standing because she wants to increase ACT's party vote in Napier.

There were six candidates in Napier at the last election three years ago. They didn't include ACT. The party polled sixth-highest in the electorate's party vote, with 152 votes.