Gerry Eckhoff

Gerrard Mortland "Gerry" Eckhoff In the 2002 election, he was ranked eighth, and remained in Parliament.

He was an ACT party spokesperson on agriculture, fisheries, forestry, biosecurity, rural affairs and land use issues. He remained a list MP until the 2005 election, in which he was again ranked eighth, but only two ACT MPs were returned.

Outside Parliament Eckhoff was working for the Meat Industry Excellence Group for a while, but he resigned in April 2013 over differences in strategy.

Eckhoff farms sheep and beef in the high country near Roxburgh, Central Otago.