Kevin Campbell (politician)

Kevin Campbell
Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Alliance party list
In office 1999 – 2002
Personal details
Born	1949 (age 74–75) Addington
Political party	Alliance
Spouse(s)	Kathryn
Profession	Police officer Solicitor
Religion	Catholic

Kevin Campbell is a former New Zealand member of parliament for the Alliance, and the party's leader outside of Parliament at its deregistration in May 2015.

Early career

Campbell worked as a milkman, before becoming a police officer. He trained to be a Catholic priest at Holy Name Seminary and Holy Cross College. However he was not ordained. Prior to entering Parliament he qualified as a Barrister and Solicitor and practiced in criminal law.

Member of Parliament

Parliament of New Zealand
Years	Term	Electorate	List	Party
1999–2002	46th	List	10	Alliance

Campbell was the Alliance candidate for the 1998 Taranaki-King Country by-election, and claimed to have "played some small part in bringing about the closer working relationship between Labour and the Alliance as a result of that by-election."

He was a member of the Alliance, having been elected to Parliament as a list MP in the 1999 election. At the 2002 election Campbell moved up one place on the Alliance party list, to tenth position, however due to the party's split, the Alliance's party vote fell 6.47 percentage points, meaning it was not allocated any seats in Parliament and Campbell lost his seat.

Since leaving Parliament Campbell has worked as a Supervising Solicitor at Community Law Canterbury. Campbell ran again as an Alliance candidate in the Wigram electorate, seeking to be the replacement for out-going MP Jim Anderton but lost, coming fourth, to Megan Woods, a former member of the Alliance & Progressive parties standing on a Labour ticket.

As of the 2011 election Campbell returned to being an active participant in the Alliance Party and currently sits as the Co-leader of the Party. [alliance.org.nz]