John Banks (New Zealand politician)

John Banks
Leader of ACT New Zealand
In office
16 February 2012 – 1 March 2014
Preceded byDon Brash
Succeeded byJamie Whyte
38th Mayor of Auckland City
In office
1 November 2007 – 31 October 2010
Preceded byDick Hubbard
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Len Brown
(as Mayor of Auckland)
In office
1 November 2001 – 31 October 2004
Preceded byChristine Fletcher
Succeeded byDick Hubbard
29th Minister of Police
In office
2 November 1990 – 2 March 1994
Prime MinisterJim Bolger
Preceded byRichard Prebble
Succeeded byJohn Luxton
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Whangarei
In office
28 November 1981 – 27 November 1999
Preceded byJohn Elliott
Succeeded byPhil Heatley
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Epsom
In office
12 December 2011 – 8 June 2014
Preceded byRodney Hide
Succeeded byDavid Seymour
Minister for Small Business
In office
12 December 2011 – October 2013
Prime MinisterJohn Key
Preceded byMaurice Williamson
Succeeded bySteven Joyce
Minister for Regulatory Reform
In office
12 December 2011 – October 2013
Prime MinisterJohn Key
Preceded byRodney Hide
Succeeded byBill English
Personal details
Born
John Archibald Banks

(1946-12-02) 2 December 1946 (age 77)
Wellington, New Zealand
Political partyACT New Zealand
Other political
affiliations
National Party (until 2011)
SpouseAmanda Medcalf
Children4

John Archibald Banks CNZM QSO JP (born 2 December 1946) is a New Zealand former politician. He was a member of Parliament for the National Party from 1981 to 1999, and for ACT New Zealand from 2011 to 2014. He was a Cabinet Minister from 1990 to 1996 and 2011 to 2013. He left Parliament after being convicted of filing a false electoral return – a verdict which was later overturned.[1][2][3][4]

In between his tenures in Parliament, he served as Mayor of Auckland City for two terms, from 2001 to 2004 and from 2007 to 2010.[5] When seven former smaller councils were combined into one to run the Auckland 'supercity' in 2010, Banks unsuccessfully ran for mayor again.[6] The electoral return that he filed after that campaign, detailing donations received and campaign expenses, was the subject of Banks' conviction and eventual acquittal.[3][7] After new evidence came to light, it was decided in May 2015 that there would be no retrial.

  1. ^ Steward, Ian (7 August 2014). "John Banks appeals his fraud conviction". Fairfax Media. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
  2. ^ Bennett, Adam (28 November 2014). "John Banks' wife's obsessive detective work". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  3. ^ a b Orsman, Bernard (29 January 2015). "John Banks facing a retrial over charge of filing false electoral return". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  4. ^ "John Banks to stand trial in July". Radio New Zealand. 4 February 2015. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
  5. ^ Bernard Orsman (13 October 2007). "Banks ousts Hubbard". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 13 October 2007.
  6. ^ "Preliminary results". Archived from the original on 12 October 2010.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference acquitted was invoked but never defined (see the help page).