Tim Macindoe

Timothy Harley Macindoe (born 1961)[1] is a New Zealand politician who has served as a member of the Hamilton City Council for the East Ward since 2024.

[citation needed] Through the same period, Macindoe held senior roles within the New Zealand National Party, including as chairman of the Hamilton West electorate, deputy chair of National's Central North Island regional organisation, and Central North Island regional policy chair.

[3] In the 2008 election, Macindoe won the Hamilton West electorate by a margin of 1,618 votes, defeating incumbent Labour MP Martin Gallagher.

[7] In the 2011 New Zealand general election, Macindoe again won Hamilton West, defeating Labour Party list MP Sue Moroney by a margin of 4,418 votes.

In the 2017 New Zealand general election, Macindoe won Hamilton West by a margin of 7,731 votes, defeating Labour candidate Dr Gaurav Sharma.

[11] Following the formation of the Sixth Labour Government in October 2017, Macindoe was appointed the party's spokesperson for ACC, seniors and civil defense.

[7] In late April 2020, Macindoe drew media attention and public criticism when he joked about pushing women off balconies during a live-stream session of the justice select committee during the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand.

[3] Outside Parliament, Macindoe is a parishioner at Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Forest Lake;[3] and he is actively involved with a large number of organisations within his electorate including Orchestra Central Trustee, Waikato Chamber of Commerce, Hamilton Citizens' Band Society Vice-president, Epilepsy Waikato Charitable Trust (Patron), and NZ Agricultural Fieldays Society.

[3] Macindoe opposed the Crimes (Abolition of Force as a Justification for Child Discipline) Amendment Bill and supported the "no" vote in the corporal punishment referendum, 2009.