Robert Anderson (New Zealand)

Parliament of New Zealand
Years	Term	Electorate		Party
1987–1990	42nd	Kaimai		National
1990–1993	43rd	Kaimai		National
1993–1996	44th	Kaimai		National

Robert Arnold Anderson (1936–1996) is a former New Zealand politician. He was a National Party MP from 1987 to 1996. He was first elected to Parliament in the 1987 elections as MP for Kaimai, replacing Bruce Townshend.

He left Parliament at the 1996 elections. He had been selected as National candidate for the new seat of Coromandel which replaced Kaimai, but withdrew due to illness (cancer). He was replaced by Murray McLean, who won the seat in 1996, but lost in the 1999 election.

He was born in Epsom, England, and educated in England and Southern Rhodesia. He had been a local board chairman 1983–1987 and a member of the Local Government Commission.

References

• 1990 Parliamentary Candidates for the New Zealand National Party by John Stringer (New Zealand National Party, 1990)