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Biography: Lange, David Russell

Opening the 1987 election campaign

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Opening the 1987 election campaign

David and Naomi Lange received the traditional standing ovation from Labour Party members at the opening of the 1987 election campaign. Although majorities fell in many Labour electorates, overall Labour received an increased majority, with voters from different ends of the political spectrum approving of the government’s anti-nuclear stance and its free-market economic policies.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1987/3810/12-F

Photograph by Ross Giblin

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Barry Gustafson. 'Lange, David Russell', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2010. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/20404/opening-the-1987-election-campaign (accessed 29 June 2026).