Robert Wigmore

[3] At the 2004 election he apparently won his seat on the night, but the result was overturned three months later by an electoral petition.

[4] In the intervening period there was a leadership dispute within the Democratic party, in which Wigmore remained neutral.

[5] In 2005, in a further ruling on the 2004 electoral petition, the Cook Islands Court of Appeal upheld a High Court finding that Wigmore had bribed piggery owners in his electorate in an effort to gain their vote.

[8] Wigmore rejoined the Cabinet in July 2009, replacing former Tourism Minister Wilkie Rasmussen who had been sacked for disloyalty.

In December 2011 he took a leave of absence from Parliament to allow him to be treated for prostate cancer in New Zealand.