After "a lot of angst", New Zealand First list MP Mark Patterson will stand in the Taieri electorate in September’s general election.
The Lawrence farmer stood in Clutha-Southland in 2017, the first time NZ First had fielded a candidate in the electorate since 2005.
Boundary changes meant he now lived in the Taieri seat and Mr Patterson said after much thought he had decided to stand in that electorate.
"I have done a lot of work across the Clutha-Southland electorate and the wider south, but circumstances dictated that I had to make a choice one way or the other.
"It was a hard decision to make but Taieri is now the electorate I live in."
NZ First has had mixed fortunes in the former Dunedin South seat.
Its party votes have been as low as 758 (1999) and as high as 3429, in 2014.
The former Dunedin South seat, to be left vacant with the retirement of sitting MP Clare Curran, has been a safe electorate for Labour, although it has twice lost the party vote in recent times.
Other confirmed candidates are Ingrid Leary (Labour), Liam Kernaghan (National),
Scott Willis (Greens) and Robert Andrews (Act New Zealand).
