Hone was defeated by Labour candidate Kelvin Davis, who was tacitly endorsed by the ruling National Party, New Zealand First, and the Māori Party. During the 2014 election, Labour captured six of the Māori electorates with the Māori Party being reduced to co-leader Te Ururoa Flavell's Waiariki electorate. The Māori Party managed to bring a second member co-leader Marama Fox into Parliament as their party vote entitled them to one further list seat. During the 2017 general election, the Māori Party formed an electoral pact with the Mana Movement leader and former Māori Party MP Hone Harawira not to contest Te Tai Tokerau as part of a deal to regain the Māori electorates from the Labour Party. Despite these efforts, Labour captured all seven of the Māori electorates with Labour candidate Tāmati Coffey unseating Māori Party co-leader Flavell in Waiariki. Three years later, despite a historic landslide to the Labour party, Māori party candidate Rawiri Waititi successfully unseated Coffey, returning the Māori Party to Parliament. Special votes raised the Māori Party vote from a provisional result of 1% to a final party vote of 1.2%, thus allowing co-leader, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, to enter Parliament as a List MP. Outside New Zealand The scheme has inspired some policymakers as a potential solution for other underrepresented indigenous peoples. Australia In Australia, some have put forward the idea of dedicating seats to Australian Aboriginals. In 1983, Frank Walker, the then NSW Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, proposed that each state send one Aboriginal Senator to the federal Parliament, and also the creation of four Aboriginal electorates for the NSW Legislative Assembly. In 1995, MLC Franca Arena moved the Parliament of New South Wales to an inquiry and report on the idea of providing seats dedicated to people of Aboriginal background, modeled on the Māori electorates, so as to allow for hitherto unseen indigenous representation in that Parliament. The Standing Committee on Social Issues, of which she wasn't part, released a report on the merits of the system in November 1998. The report is said to have been well-researched, with a thorough discussion of the systems' mechanics, and through which paths it could come to light. The NSW Government members, however, did not conclude the proposal appropriate and leaned towards other measures to facilitate Aborigine representation. Another report was released in 2003 by the Legislative Assembly of Queensland's Legal, Constitutional and Administrative Review Committee, inquiring how