Election 2023: New Conservative candidate for Tauranga Jono Langridge on Local Focus Candidate Camera

Watch the Local Focus video to see all of Jono Langridge’s answers on a range of important subjects.

Jono Langridge says he is “a man of seven Cs” - Christian, centre-right, courageous, communicator, constituent-focused, courteous and comedian.

As the Tauranga candidate for the New Conservative Party, he says Parliament should be a place where real people make decisions based on real people’s concerns.

Transport, housing and parking are the big issues for locals, Langridge believes, and he wants to see the SH29 highway expanded, whether it impacts climate change or not.

“I believe that climate change is driven more by ideology than science.”

He says the New Conservative Party would remove the carbon emissions tax if it were in government.

Langridge struggled with stuttering as a boy and it affected his speech, but that made him more determined to enter politics.

“I know what it means to have much to say but no voice for it,” he said. “Now that I have my voice, I want to give Tauranga and New Zealand back theirs.”

Watch interviews with other candidates for Tauranga electorate:

Local Focus: National Party candidate, Sam Uffindell on Candidate Camera

Local Focus: Labour candidate Jan Tinetti on Candidate Camera

Local Focus: New Zealand First candidate, Erika Harvey on Candidate Camera

Local Focus: Act Party candidate, Christine Young on Candidate Camera

Local Focus: Vision New Zealand candidate, Leon Samuels on Candidate Camera

Local Focus: New Conservative candidate, Jono Langridge on Candidate Camera

Local Focus: Independent candidate, Larry Baldock on Candidate Camera

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