Denise Lee | |
---|---|
Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Maungakiekie | |
In office 23 September 2017 –6 November 2020 | |
Preceded by | Sam Lotu-Iiga |
Succeeded by | Priyanca Radhakrishnan |
Maungakiekie-Tāmaki Ward Councillor | |
In office 13 October 2013 –12 October 2017 | |
Preceded by | Richard Northey |
Succeeded by | Josephine Bartley |
Personal details | |
Born | Paeroa,New Zealand | 4 December 1970
Political party | New Zealand National Party Auckland Future (Local) |
Other political affiliations | United Future (until 2009) |
Website | http://www.deniselee.co.nz [ dead link ] |
Denise Adrienne Lee [1] (previously Denise Krum;born 4 December 1970) is a New Zealand politician who was the National Party's Member of Parliament for the Maungakiekie electorate from 2017 to 2020. She was previously an Auckland Council local body councillor.
Lee was born in Paeroa in 1970 and is the daughter of Graeme Lee,who was also a Member of Parliament. [2]
She was married and known as Denise Krum during the start of her political career,before returning to her maiden name following the 2016 local election. [3]
During the 2008 general election,Lee stood in Maungakiekie for United Future. Lee was President of United Future at the time. She later left United Future and joined the New Zealand National Party. She stood on the party list during the 2011 election but was not ranked high enough to be elected.
Years | Ward | Affiliation | |
---|---|---|---|
2013 –16 | Maungakiekie-Tāmaki | Communities and Residents | |
2016 –17 | Maungakiekie-Tāmaki | Auckland Future |
Lee was elected to the Auckland Council as a Communities &Residents candidate at the 2013 elections,defeating incumbent and former Labour MP Richard Northey. [4] She ran on the Auckland Future ticket during the 2016 local elections,and was re-elected with an increased majority. [3]
In 2016,the then newly elected Mayor Phil Goff,appointed her as the deputy chairperson of the planning committee. [5]
Years | Term | Electorate | List | Party | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2017 –2020 | 52nd | Maungakiekie | 63 | National |
In 2017 she announced she would seek selection as the National Party's candidate for Maungakiekie at the 2017 general election. [6] On 7 March 2017 Lee was selected as National's candidate for Maungakiekie. [7] She was elected at the 2017 general election with a majority of almost 2000 votes. [8]
She resigned from her position as councillor for the Maungakiekie-Tāmaki ward,effective 12 October 2017, [9] triggering a by-election held on 17 February 2018.
In her maiden speech,Lee noted that the driving force behind her political career was the death of her son. [10] She said that;
Politics really did become personal for me then. A flick of the pen,the wording of an amendment,an exchange in this debating chamber—Parliament's processes affect everyday lives. [11]
When the 52nd Parliament opened,she was appointed as a member of the Education and Workforce select committee. [12]
During the 2020 New Zealand general election held on 17 October,on preliminary results Lee was ahead of Labour candidate Priyanca Radhakrishnan by a margin of 580 votes. [13] However,when final results were released she lost the seat to Radhakrishnan by 635 votes. [14] [15]
In 2021 Lee returned to local government when she was elected as a trustee of Entrust,a trust for electricity consumers in Auckland. [16]
Graeme Ernest Lee is a former New Zealand politician. Originally a National Party MP,he broke away to found the Christian Democrat Party.
Richard John Northey is a New Zealand politician. He was an MP from 1984 to 1990,and again from 1993 to 1996. He served on the Auckland Council between 2010 and 2013,and is a member of the Labour Party.
Maungakiekie is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate,returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The current MP for Maungakiekie is Greg Fleming of the National Party. The electorate's name comes from Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill,a large and symbolically important hill at the western end of the seat.
Manukau East was a New Zealand parliamentary electorate that returned one member of parliament to the House of Representatives. It was first formed for the 1996 election. Between the 2014 election and the 2020 electorate adjustment it was held by Jenny Salesa,a member of the Labour Party,who also won the replacement Panmure-Ōtāhuhu seat in the 2020 election.
Peseta Samuelu Masunu "Sam" Lotu-Iiga is a former member of the New Zealand Parliament for the Maungakiekie electorate,having been elected in the 2008 election. Lotu-Iiga was one of two National Party Pasifika MPs. Lotu-Iiga holds the Samoan high chiefly title of Peseta.
Carol Ann Beaumont is a New Zealand unionist and Labour Party politician. She twice served as a list member of Parliament from 2008 to 2011 and 2013 to 2014,and was elected Labour Party senior vice president in 2021.
The Maungakiekie-Tāmaki Local Board is one of the 21 local boards of the Auckland Council. It is the only local board overseen by the council's Maungakiekie-Tāmaki Ward councillor.
Denise Maree Roche is a New Zealand politician. She was a member of the Waiheke Local Board and the New Zealand House of Representatives,where she represented the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand from 2011 to 2017.
Alfred Ngaro is a New Zealand politician,serving as leader of New Zeal since 2023. He was a list member of the New Zealand House of Representatives from 2011 to 2020,representing the National Party.
Le-Aufa'amulia Asenati Lole-Taylor is a former New Zealand politician and a member of the House of Representatives. She is a member of the New Zealand First Party.
Priyanca Radhakrishnan is a New Zealand politician who has been elected to the New Zealand parliament since the 2017 general election as a representative of the New Zealand Labour Party and was Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector from 2020 to 2023.
Kushmiita Parmjeet Kaur Parmar is a New Zealand politician.
The New Zealand Outdoors &Freedom Party,formerly the New Zealand Outdoors Party,is a registered political party in New Zealand. It is part of the Freedoms NZ umbrella movement. The party is co-led by Sue Grey and Donna Pokere-Phillips.
The 2016 Auckland local elections took place between September and October 2016 by postal vote. The elections were the third since the merger of seven councils into the Auckland Council,which is composed of the mayor and 20 councillors,and 149 members of 21 local boards. Twenty-one district health board members and 41 licensing trust members were also elected.
Auckland Future is a centre-right political ticket that ran for local seats under the Auckland Council in 2016. It campaigned on a fiscally conservative platform. It did not stand candidates in the 2019 election.
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.
Maungakiekie-Tāmaki Ward is an Auckland Council ward which elects one councillor and covers the Maungakiekie-Tāmaki Local Board. The current councillor is Josephine Bartley.
Josephine Ruth Bartley is a New Zealand politician who is an Auckland Councillor.
Ricardo Menéndez March is a New Zealand activist and politician who,since 2020,is a Member of Parliament for the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand in the House of Representatives.
This page lists candidates contesting electorates in the 2023 New Zealand general election.