Dianne Fae Yates (born 29 November 1943) is a New Zealand politician. She is a member of the Labour Party.

Member of Parliament

Yates first entered Parliament in the 1993 election, representing the Hamilton East electorate. In the 1996 election, she was defeated in Hamilton East by

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's Tony Steel, but remained in Parliament as a

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. She recaptured Hamilton East again in the 2002 election by a majority of 614 votes. However, in the 2005 election she lost the seat to

's David Bennett by a significant 5,298 votes, and again became a

. In August 2007, she announced that she would retire from Parliament by the end of the year in order to stand for the Hamilton City Council. This she did, but she was unsuccessful, finishing 7th. She was expected to be replaced by

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, the next candidate on Labour's list, but Wall entered parliament as a replacement for Ann Hartley. Dianne Yates gave her valedictory statement to Parliament on 19 March 2008 and left

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on 29 March 2008.

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, who ranked 47th on the Labour Party

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in the 2005 parliamentary election, became a member of Parliament on 1 April 2008 as the next person on Labour's list.

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References

Dianne Yates on Parliamentary website
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