John Elliott

Background

Elliott was born in 1938 in Whangarei.

Career

He received his education at Whangarei Boys" High School and at the University of Auckland. He obtained an Master of Arts (Honours) and a diploma in teaching, and was a teacher from 1959 until 1975, including deputy principal of Bayfield School in his last two years in the profession. Instead, Elliot stood in the New Lynn electorate in the 1981 election against the incumbent from the Labour Party, Jonathan Hunt, but he was unsuccessful.

Achievements

• He won the Whangarei electorate from Murray Robert Smith in 1975 and was re-elected in 1978, but failed to win the reselection by the National Party in 1981, who instead chose John Banks.