True blue turns red: Rangitata's new Labour MP the first in electorate's history
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Save Rangitata River and The Garden of Eden Southern Alps.
One of the truest blue electorates of them all, has turned red for the first time in its history.
Rangitata, which takes in Ashburton and Timaru, has gone to Jo Luxton, a list MP from 2017.
She told Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB that she could feel the mood changing
in the electorate.
"The feel on the ground has been so different this time around. I worked damn hard, damn hard, over the last three years."