New Zealand First leader and Racing Minister Winston Peters says Shane Jones can win Northland in a two-horse race.

Mr Peters lost the seat to National’s Matt Hunt in the 2017 general election.

He says the by-election when National MP Mike Sabin resigned showed what was possible if other parties get out of the way.

"Labour and the Greens campaigned against me in 2017. They didn't have a hope of winning the seat themselves. We don't do deals but it would have been obvious to anybody that if you can't win the seat and someone else can, then perhaps it would be a good idea to be strategically clever, and they weren't, and then the day after they were on the phone saying 'can we talk to you?'" Mr Peters says.

List MP Willow Jean Prime, who took more than 8000 votes in the 2017 election, is again flying the flag for Labour in September.

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