Allan Wallbank

Allan Robert Wallbank (born 1937) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.

[2] He worked at the Public Trust Office for three years until he entered farming in the King Country.

While still needing a wheelchair he travelled to Wellington to attend a special caucus meeting in 1988 to support Prime Minister David Lange in a leadership challenge by sacked finance minister Roger Douglas.

[4] He was defeated by Wayne Kimber; one of a number of losses contributing to the fall of the Fourth Labour Government.

At the 1992 local-body elections he stood as a candidate for Mayor of Gisborne, but was unsuccessful, losing to the incumbent John Clarke.