Napier MP Stuart Nash is resigning this election.

He was stripped of ministerial portfolios and kicked out of Cabinet after recent scandals, the latest that he revealed information about Cabinet decisions to two donors.

Resigning at the election means he hasn't forced an electorate by-election.

National's Napier candidate, Katie Nimon says no one would want one.

"A lot of our electorate can't actually get to a poll even if there was one, we've got a lot of roads still closed. And the electorate goes all the way out to just out to south of Gisborne, so it would make for a pretty hard by-election."

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