Craig McNair is a former New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 politician. He is a member of the New Zealand First

New Zealand First

New Zealand First is a political party in New Zealand that was founded in 1993, following party founder Winston Peters' resignation from the National Party in 1992...

 party, and was a member of parliament from 2002 - 2005 for the party.

Early years

Before entering politics, McNair was a marketing manager. He also holds a pilot

Aviator

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's license.

Member of Parliament

He was elected to Parliament as a list MP

Party-list proportional representation

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 in the 2002 elections

New Zealand general election, 2002

The 2002 New Zealand general election was held on 27 July 2002 to determine the composition of the 47th New Zealand Parliament. It saw the reelection of Helen Clark's Labour Party government, as well as the worst-ever performance by the opposition National Party.Arguably the most controversial...

, having been ranked in eighth place on the New Zealand First party list. He was his party's youth affairs spokesman.

As an MP, he complained to police in 2002 about admissions of cannabis use by Green MP Nándor Tánczos

Nandor Tanczos

Nándor Steven Tánczos , a member of the New Zealand Parliament from 1999 to 2008, represented the Green Party as a list MP. He briefly lost his seat in the 2005 General Election, but returned to Parliament following the sudden death of Rod Donald just prior to the first sitting of Parliament, as he...

, the police investigated but no charges were laid. Also in 2002, McNair had a brief relationship with the parliamentary executive secretary for Labour MP Clayton Cosgrove

Clayton Cosgrove

Clayton James Cosgrove is a New Zealand politician. He is a member of the Labour Party.-Early life:Cosgrove was born in Nelson, New Zealand. He received a BA, in American Studies and Political Science, from the University of Canterbury in 1992 and received an MBA in 1996...

, the secretary was sacked for a conflict of interest, but rehired in the office of the Minister of Conservation.

At the 2005 elections

New Zealand general election, 2005

The 2005 New Zealand general election held on 17 September 2005 determined the composition of the 48th New Zealand Parliament. No party won a majority in the unicameral House of Representatives, but the Labour Party of Prime Minister Helen Clark secured two more seats than nearest rival, the...

 he was ranked 11th on the party list. New Zealand First gained enough party votes to elect seven MPs, so McNair missed out on being returned as an MP. After being an MP he worked in real estate in Auckland.

In the 2008 election he stood for Waitakere

Waitakere (New Zealand electorate)

Waitakere is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The current MP for Waitakere is Paula Bennett of the National Party. She has held this position since the 2008 election....

and was ranked 17th on the New Zealand First party list, but he did not win the electorate and the party did not make the threshold of five percent of votes to get any list candidates elected.