Contesting Ikaroa-Rāwhiti are sitting MP Labour Party's Meka Whaitiri, from the MANA Movement Te Hamua Nikora, representing the Māori Party is Marama Fox, and for the Greens Henare Kani.
Native Affairs reporter Jodi Ihaka has been on a road trip across Te Ikaroa-Rāwhiti, and has met the locals in Nūhaka through to Te Māhia,
She asks the candidates whether they would consider rates relief for struggling Māori landowners.