Howick is a suburb of East Auckland,New Zealand. The area was traditionally settled by Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki,and in 1847 Howick was established as a defensive settlement for Auckland,by veteran fencible soldiers of the British Army. Howick was a small agricultural centre until the 1950s,when it developed into a suburban area of Auckland. Modern Howick draws much of its character from the succeeding waves of Asian settlement that it has experienced since New Zealand's immigration reforms of the 1980s,with a strong Chinese New Zealander presence in the suburb's business and education sectors.
Maurice Donald Williamson is a New Zealand politician and former diplomat.
Theodorus Jacobus Leonardus "Dick" Quax was a Dutch-born New Zealand runner,one-time world record holder in the 5000 metres,and local-body politician.
Rainbow Labour is the LGBT+ sector of the New Zealand Labour Party.
Sir Barry John Curtis is a retired New Zealand local-body politician,who served as mayor of Manukau City from 1983 until 2007. When he announced his intention to retire in 2007,he was New Zealand's longest-serving mayor at that time.
Northcote is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate,returning one member of parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. Currently,the Member for Northcote is Dan Bidois of the National Party,who won the seat at the 2023 election.
A by-election was held in the New Zealand electorate of Botany on 5 March 2011. The seat was vacated by former National Ethnic Affairs Minister Pansy Wong,who announced her resignation from the New Zealand Parliament on 14 December 2010 following allegations her husband Sammy had misused taxpayer money in relation to overseas travel.
Jami-Lee Matenga Ross is a former New Zealand politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Botany electorate in Auckland from the March 2011 Botany by-election,when he became the youngest MP at the time,until 2020. He was previously a local government politician on the Auckland Council and,before that,was on the Manukau City Council from the age of 18.
The Mangere by-election of 1977 was a by-election for the electorate of Mangere on 26 March 1977 during the 38th New Zealand Parliament. The by-election resulted from the resignation of the previous member Colin Moyle after accusations against him in parliament,and he was replaced by David Lange,also of the Labour Party. Apart from Lange,there were seven other candidates in the by-election.
Jennifer Teresia Salesa is a New Zealand politician and member of the Labour Party who has served as a Member of Parliament since 2014. She was first elected as MP for Manukau East,and after its abolition in 2020 won the replacement electorate of Panmure-Ōtāhuhu. She served as a Cabinet Minister in the Sixth Labour Government as Minister for Building and Construction,Minister of Customs and Minister for Ethnic Communities from 2017 until 6 November 2020.
Richard Brian Hills is an Auckland Councillor who was elected at the 2016 Auckland elections. He is Auckland's youngest current councillor,the first openly gay Auckland Councillor and one of two Ngāpuhi iwi members. He has been an advocate for more investment in local youth and secured a youth centre in Glenfield.
Timothy John van de Molen is a New Zealand politician and Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for the National Party.
Helen Ione White is a New Zealand politician. In 2020 she became a Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for the Labour Party. In 2023,she was chosen by Labour to contest the Mount Albert electorate,previously held by former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. White won the seat,holding it for Labour,but by a significantly reduced margin of 18 votes.
Damian Francis Light is a New Zealand politician who was the leader of the United Future party from August 2017 until the party's dissolution in November 2017. He became party leader following the resignation of Peter Dunne. Light had previously served as the president of the party. He was the first openly gay leader of a political party in New Zealand. Light later entered local politics,and in 2022 became the Chair of the Howick Local Board.
Lemauga Lydia Sosene is a New Zealand Labour Party politician. She was a member of the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu local board from the October 2010 local elections until her election to the New Zealand House of Representatives in May 2022. After completing the balance of Louisa Wall's term as a list MP,Sosene was elected as MP for Māngere at the 2023 general election.
The 2018 Northcote by-election was a New Zealand by-election that was held in Northcote on 9 June 2018. The seat became vacant on 15 April 2018,following the resignation of then-Member for Northcote Jonathan Coleman,a member of the New Zealand National Party.
Shanan Kiritea Halbert is a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. From 2020 to 2023,he was the Member of Parliament for Northcote.
Paul Young is a New Zealand politician who was an Auckland Councillor and a board member of the Counties Manukau District Health Board.
Simon Glen Watts is a New Zealand politician. As of 2020 he is an elected Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for the National Party.
Stephen Berry is a perennial candidate in New Zealand national and local politics,running on right-wing positions.
