The 1972 New Zealand general election was held on 25 November to elect MPs to the 37th session of the New Zealand Parliament. The Labour Party,led by Norman Kirk,defeated the governing National Party.
Mark Everett Peck is a New Zealand politician and a member of the Labour Party. From 2013 to 2016,he was a Wellington City Councillor,and was MP for Invercargill from 1993 to 2005.
Sir Joseph George Ward,1st Baronet,of Wellington,was a New Zealand politician who served as the 17th prime minister of New Zealand from 1906 to 1912 and from 1928 to 1930. He was a dominant figure in the Liberal and United ministries of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Lesley Frances Soper is a former New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.
Clutha-Southland was a parliamentary constituency returning one member to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The last MP for Clutha Southland was Hamish Walker of the National Party. He held the seat for one term,being elected at the 2017 general election and representing the electorate until the 2020 general election where he retired from Parliament,and the seat was relaced with the Southland electorate.
Invercargill is an electorate of the New Zealand Parliament that has existed since 1866. Since the 2020 election,the electorate's representative is Penny Simmonds of the National Party.
Hugh Campbell Templeton is a former New Zealand diplomat,politician and member of parliament for the National Party.
John Baldwin Munro,better known as J. B. Munro,was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. He was also a notable disability advocate.
William Mortimer Clarence Denham was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.
Awarua was a New Zealand parliamentary electorate from 1881 to 1996.
Aubrey Wilbert Begg was a New Zealand Member of Parliament,for Awarua in Southland.
Cuthbert Cowan was a 19th-century Member of Parliament from Southland,New Zealand.
Sarah Maree Dowie is a New Zealand former politician of the National Party. She was the Member of Parliament for Invercargill from 2014 to 2020.
Todd Keith Barclay is a former New Zealand politician of the National Party. He was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Clutha-Southland at the 2014 general election. In 2017,Barclay resigned from parliament after a scandal involving secret recordings he made.
Ria Iris Daphne Bond is a New Zealand politician and former hairdresser. She was appointed to the House of Representatives as a New Zealand First list MP following Winston Peters winning the March 2015 Northland by-election.
The 1944 Awarua by-election was a by-election held during the 27th New Zealand Parliament in the Southland electorate of Awarua. The by-election occurred following the death of MP James Hargest and was won by George Herron.
Elizabeth Dorothy Craig is a New Zealand politician and Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for the Labour Party. As a public health physician,she has become known for her research work on child poverty.
Southland is an electorate to the New Zealand House of Representatives. It was first created for the 2020 New Zealand general election and has since then been held by Joseph Mooney of the National Party.
Joseph Mooney is a New Zealand politician. In 2020 he was elected as a Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for the National Party.
Penelope Elsie Simmonds is a New Zealand politician and Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for the National Party. She previously served as the chief executive of the Southern Institute of Technology.
