ACT has given one of the country's most prominent gun advocates a high ranking on its party list, released on Sunday.
Nicole McKee, head of the Council of Licenced Firearms Owners, will stand for the right-wing party in Rongotai, a safe Labour seat currently held by Labour's Paul Eagle.
Since the Christchurch shooting last year, McKee has frequently appeared in the media to criticise the Government's gun reforms.
"I do not believe that emotive and rushed legislation that adversely affects those it is intended to support is viable," she said on Sunday.
"Our laws should be rooted in policies that recognise our democratic rights to think, to speak and to behave in a legal and unobstructed way. I am standing for ACT because our principles not only promote freedom to live within the law but also efficient policies while treating everyone as equal."
Party leader David Seymour is ranked first, followed by deputy Brooke van Velden, who said on Sunday she used to vote Green before studying economics at the University of Auckland.
"The ability for free markets to lift countries from hardship was a revelation for me."
In the past few elections, who's appeared on the ACT list below the leader has almost been a moot point - the party's only won enough support to bring in a single MP since 2011.
But recent polls have suggested the party could bring in three or four this election, provided Seymour wins the seat of Epsom again.
"Since the last election our membership has tripled and we are now standing 56 candidates, up from 42 last time," said Seymour.
Fourth on the list is Chris Baillie, "a small business owner, full-time secondary school teacher, former policeman of 14 years" who's into jazz.
"I believe in personal responsibility and personal freedom, in particular the right to free speech, and believe that less bureaucratic and government intervention in our lives is the way forward for New Zealand," said Baillie.
Fifth is Simon Court, a civil and environmental engineer with a keen interest in getting rid of the Resource Management Act, and sixth is James McDowall, who describes himself as "sceptical of big government" and enjoys shooting pistols.
ACT's second candidate named David Seymour, standing in Whangarei, has been ranked 19th.
"No party in history has tried the strategy of having two David Seymours as candidates, we think this could go really well," the ACT Party leader told RNZ earlier this month.
ACT's full list for the 2020 election
- David Seymour
- Brooke Van Velden
- Nicole McKee
- Chris Baillie
- Simon Court
- James McDowall
- Karen Chhour
- Mark Cameron
- Stephen Berry
- Toni Severin
- Damien Smith
- Miles McConway
- Beth Houlbrooke
- Carmel Claridge
- Bruce Carley
- Cameron Luxton
- Grae O'Sullivan
- Myah Deedman
- David Seymour
- David King
- Richard Evans
- Robert Andrews
- Stu Armstrong
- Sean Beamish
- Shawn Blanchfield
- Kartini Clarke
- Jan Daffern
- James Davies
- Tommy Fergusson
- Sean Fitzpatrick
- David Fox
- David Freeman
- Paul Gilbert
- Paul Grace
- Wayne Grattan
- Roger Greenslade
- Abby Johnson
- Chris Johnston
- Judith Kendall
- Pete Kirkwood
- Niko Kloeten
- Tim Kronfeld
- Mike McCormick
- Brent Miles
- Michael Nees
- David Olsen
- Grae O'Sullivan
- Andy Parkins
- Matthew Percival
- Jack Phillips
- Callum Steele-Macintosh
- Basil Walker
- Blake Webb
- Roger Weldon
- Bruce Whitehead
- Neil Wilson
- Ada Xiao
