Reg Boorman

Reginald George Boorman (6 February 1935 – 30 October 2016) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.

[1] He unsuccessfully stood for the Labour nomination at the 1980 Onehunga by-election, losing to Fred Gerbic.

[2] He was selected to contest the Wairarapa electorate in 1984, where he defeated the National Party incumbent Ben Couch.

Creech was assisted in his efforts by Tauranga MP Winston Peters, who had won an electoral petition in Hunua nine years earlier.

This outcome resulted in him being declared guilty of a corrupt practice, which meant that Boorman would have been expelled from Parliament even if Creech had not won the recount.