Michael Kenneth Moore was a New Zealand politician,union organiser,and author. In the Fourth Labour Government he served in several portfolios including minister of foreign affairs,and was the 34th prime minister of New Zealand for 59 days before the 1990 general election elected a new parliament. Following Labour's defeat in that election,Moore served as Leader of the Opposition until the 1993 election,after which Helen Clark successfully challenged him for the Labour Party leadership.
Lianne Audrey Dalziel is a New Zealand politician and former Mayor of Christchurch. Prior to this position,she was a member of the New Zealand Parliament for 23 years,serving as Minister of Immigration,Commerce,Minister of Food Safety and Associate Minister of Justice in the Fifth Labour Government. She resigned from Cabinet on 20 February 2004 after apparently lying about a leak of documents to the media,but was reinstated as a Minister following Labour's return to office after the 2005 election. She resigned from Parliament effective 11 October 2013 to contest the Christchurch mayoral election. The incumbent,Bob Parker,decided not to stand again. She was widely regarded as the top favourite and won with a wide margin to become the 46th Mayor of Christchurch.
Sir Thomas Kerry Burke is a former New Zealand politician and Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives. He was a Member of Parliament for the Labour Party from 1972 to 1975 and again from 1978 to 1990,and later served twelve years on Canterbury Regional Council from 1998 to 2010.
David Francis Caygill is a former New Zealand politician. Caygill was born and raised in Christchurch. He entered politics in 1971 as Christchurch's youngest city councillor at the age of 22. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1978 to 1996,representing the Labour Party. A supporter of Rogernomics,he served as Minister of Finance between 1988 and 1990. From 2010 to 2019,he was one of the government-appointed commissioners at Environment Canterbury.
Catherine Joan Wilkinson is a New Zealand farmer and politician. She was a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives for the National Party from 2005 until her retirement in 2014. From 2008 until January 2013,she was a member of cabinet,holding the portfolios of Labour,Conservation,Food Safety,and Associate Immigration,before being removed from cabinet by Prime Minister John Key.
The New Zealand Democratic Coalition was a proposed moderate political party intended to contest the 1996 General Election. It would have been led by former Prime Minister Mike Moore and was intended to capture the balance of power on election night. Ultimately it was not registered and Moore stayed with Labour for the 1996 election.
Christchurch Central is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate in the South Island city of Christchurch. The electorate was established for the 1946 election and,until 2011 had always been won by the Labour Party. Since 2008,the incumbent was Brendon Burns but the election night results for the 2011 election resulted in a tie;the special vote results combined with a judicial recount revealed a 47-vote majority for Nicky Wagner,the National list MP based in the electorate. Wagner significantly increased her winning margin in the 2014 election after having declared the electorate "unwinnable" for National earlier in the year following a boundary review. At the 2017 election Wagner lost the seat to Labour's Duncan Webb,who retained it at the 2020 election.
Christchurch East,originally called Christchurch City East,is a current New Zealand parliamentary electorate. It was first created for the 1871 election and was abolished for two periods,from 1875–1905 and again from 1946–1996. It was last created for the introduction of the MMP voting system for the 1996 election. The current MP is Poto Williams,a member of the New Zealand Labour Party who was first elected in the 2013 Christchurch East by-election.
Waimakariri is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate,formed for the 1996 election and returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The MP for Waimakariri is Matt Doocey of the National Party. He has held this position since the 2014 election and takes over from Kate Wilkinson,who defeated Clayton Cosgrove (Labour) in the 2011 election.
Michael Aynsley Connelly was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party,and a Cabinet Minister from 1972 to 1975 in the Third Labour Government.
Denis John O'Rourke is a former New Zealand politician. He served fifteen years as a councillor on Christchurch City Council,and served six years as a Member of Parliament representing New Zealand First.
The 2013 Christchurch mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections and was won by former MP Lianne Dalziel. The elections were held on 12 October 2013 for the Mayor of Christchurch plus other local government roles.
A by-election was held in the New Zealand electorate of Christchurch East on 30 November 2013. The seat was vacated following the resignation of Lianne Dalziel of the Labour Party from parliament,who contested and won the Christchurch mayoralty in October 2013.
Munokoa Poto Williams is a New Zealand Labour Party politician and a member of Parliament. She was elected in a 2013 by-election and served as Minister of Conservation and Minister for Disability Issues in the Sixth Labour Government.
Matthew Maurice Doocey is a New Zealand politician who was elected to the New Zealand Parliament at the 2014 general election as a representative of the New Zealand National Party. He was re-elected in 2017 with a majority increase of over 10,000 which was a significant increase from a majority of 2,500 in 2014. It was reported that this was the largest personal vote increase in the country.
The 2016 Christchurch mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held on 8 October. The incumbent mayor,former Labour MP and government Minister Lianne Dalziel,who was first elected in the 2013 mayoral election was reelected,winning a commanding 83.9% of formal votes cast in the poll. However New Zealand's local government elections in 2016 were characterized by a nationwide low participation rate which saw only 41.8% of enrolled voters cast a ballot in the election. Christchurch's turnout rate was particularly low with only 38.3% of enrolled voters actually voting,down from 52.2% in 2010.
Daniel Peter Rosewarne is a New Zealand politician and former military officer. Since July 2022 he has been a List member of parliament for the New Zealand Labour Party.
Janette Rose Tinetti is a New Zealand politician and a Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for the Labour Party.
The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Act 2011 was a New Zealand statute that repealed the Canterbury Earthquake Response and Recovery Act 2010 and set out measures to respond to the impact of the Canterbury earthquakes,and in particular the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake.
The 2022 Christchurch mayoral election was part of the 2022 New Zealand local elections that took place on 8 October 2022,with the new mayor's term lasting to 2025. There are no term limits,but the incumbent three-term mayor,Lianne Dalziel,had announced that she would not be seeking a fourth term. One of the key election issues was whether or not to build a stadium which would cost $683m.
