Logan Francis Sloane was a 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 of the National Party

New Zealand National Party

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He represented the seat of Hobson

Hobson (New Zealand electorate)

-Population Centres:The electorate is in the Northland Region, and includes the following population centres:-History:The Hobson electorate existed from 1946 , to 1978 when the name reverted back to Bay of Islands...

 in Northland from 1960 to 1966, and from 1969 to 1975, when he retired.

In 1961 he was one of ten National MPs to vote with the Opposition and remove capital punishment

Capital punishment in New Zealand

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 for murder from the Crimes Bill that the Second National Government

Second National Government of New Zealand

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 had introduced.

In the 1966 election

New Zealand general election, 1966

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, Vernon Cracknell

Vernon Cracknell

Vernon Francis Cracknell was a New Zealand politician. Initially working as an accountant, he became involved in politics through the Social Credit Party, a group dedicated to the social credit theory of monetary reform...

, an accountant, who had come second in the previous two elections narrowly defeated Sloane, the incumbent (again, Labour

New Zealand Labour Party

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 was third). Cracknell was the first representative in Parliament of the Social Credit Party

Social Credit Party (New Zealand)

The New Zealand Social Credit Party was a political party which served as the country's "third party" from the 1950s through into the 1980s. The party held a number of seats in the New Zealand Parliament, although never more than two at a time...

. But as Cracknell did not prove a good performer in Parliament, and Social Credit ran a poor 1969

New Zealand general election, 1969

The 1969 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament's 36th term. It saw the governing National Party win a fourth consecutive term, under Prime Minister Keith Holyoake.-The Election:...

campaign, Sloane regained his seat with a substantial margin after three years and Social Credit lost its only MP.