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=Tubby Hansen= Christopher Michael Hansen (born 1945), known in his younger years by his middle name but now commonly known as Tubby Hansen, is a perennial candidate in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is known for his eccentricity and for his long history of standing in elections, often coming last. He has contested every general election since 1969 (first in the Sydenham electorate and, after it was abolished for the 1996 election, in the Wigram electorate) and since 1971, he has contested every Christchurch mayoral election.

Private life
Christopher Michael Hansen was born in 1945. In 1969, he was a freezing worker in Ocean Beach near Bluff where he worked for the Ocean Beach Freezing Company, but moved to Christchurch just before the first election that he contested in November of that year. In 1972, he was a timber worker.

He lives in Spreydon.

General elections
Hansen first stood for election in the Sydenham electorate in the 1969 general election. The Christchurch newspaper The Press published an article about him being an "elusive candidate" as hardly anything was known about Hansen. At the time of nomination, he still lived in Southland. His two nominators, who are required to be on the roll of the electorate that a candidate stands in, confirmed that they did not know him; Hansen's nomination had come about through "a team of hard case jokers" from Sydenham talking to him and looking for people to sign the nomination form. Hansen informed the electoral officer that he was the secretary of the New Zealand Economic Euthenic Party. Once living in the Christchurch suburb of Addington, he clarified that he was also his party's president and that its membership was "half a dozen or so". Phonemic orthography was one of his party's policy and for that reason, the real name was the "New Zealand Economic Uthanic Party" but since he wanted people to be able to look up the meaning of euthenics in a dictionary, the official spelling was used for campaigning. He had prepared a 67-page booklet of policies for the 1969 general election. In his first election, he came last of the five candidates, gaining 0.66% of the vote, with Norman Kirk—then the leader of the opposition—winning the electorate.

In the 1972 general election, he used "Anti-Māori-violence pro-Apartheid" as his party affiliation. Although he only gained 0.38% of the vote, he came fourth out of six candidates.

Local elections
Hansen's first local election was the 1971 Christchurch local elections. He was one of three candidates for the mayoralty and one of 43 candidates for the 19 positions as city councillors. He came last in both elections.

His best result was in the 2013 local elections when he gained 1.57% of the votes in the mayoral election.

Candidate statements
Hansen maintains that the city council should not get involved in climate change because "the council can do anything at all about that, nothing at all."

Hansen's candidate statements were described by Hayden Donnell, writing for The Spinoff, as "evocative, avant-garde, cryptic and compelling". Donnell rates the 2016 candidate statement as "his seminal work", where Hansen promises to be a "take it easy, completely, obnoxious and sneaky Mayor". In fact, this phrase was already contained in Hansen's 2013 candidate statement. Writing for Stuff, Henry Cook and Laura McQuillan wrote that Hansen's "perennially odd election promises have delighted local voters". In 2010, soon after the 2010 Canterbury earthquake, he published a "Quake Cake" recipe as his election advert. When asked by The Press in 2016 what kind of Christchurch he wanted, Hansen replied:

"I want all police, psychologists, doctors, dentists, nurses, social workers, fire and ambulance staff, all SIS and GCSB to go on a course on modern electronics, rays, lasers and masers ... all to sit a paper [and] half to be deliberately failed. The failed half to have their warrants failed and referred to WINZ for a pick and shovel job with the water works."