Reginald Alfred Keeling was a New Zealand

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 politician of the Labour Party

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He represented the Poverty Bay

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 electorate of Gisborne

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 from 1949 to 1951

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, when he was defeated by Harry Dudfield

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Harry Dudfield was a New Zealand politician of the National Party. He was born in Gisborne.He won the Gisborne electorate from Reginald Keeling in 1951, but lost to Keeling in the next election in 1954....

 of National

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, and again from 1954

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 to 1960

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 when he was again defeated by the National candidate Esme Tombleson

Esme Tombleson

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He then represented the Auckland

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 electorate of Grey Lynn

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 briefly in 1963 from 18 May to 29 October, after the death of Fred Hackett. He stood for North Shore

North Shore (New Zealand electorate)

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 in the 1963 general election

New Zealand general election, 1963

The 1963 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament's 34th term. The results were almost identical to those for the previous election, and the governing National Party remained in office....

but was defeated.

He was awarded a Q.S.O. in 1979.