ACT New Zealand,also known as the ACT Party or simply ACT,is a right-wing,classical-liberal political party in New Zealand. Young ACT is an associated student wing.
Sir Simon William English is a New Zealand former National Party politician who served as the 39th prime minister of New Zealand from 2016 to 2017. He had previously served as the 17th deputy prime minister of New Zealand and minister of finance from 2008 to 2016 under John Key and the Fifth National Government.
United Future New Zealand,usually known as United Future,was a centrist political party in New Zealand. The party was in government between 2005 and 2017,first alongside Labour (2005–2008) and then supporting National (2008–2017).
Peter Francis Dunne is a retired New Zealand politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ōhāriu. He held the seat and its predecessors from 1984 to 2017 –representing the Labour Party in Parliament from 1984 to 1994,and a succession of minor centrist parties from 1994. He was the Leader of Future New Zealand from 1994 to 1995,United New Zealand from 1996 to 2000,and United Future from 2000 to 2017.
Rodney Philip Hide is a former New Zealand politician of the ACT New Zealand party. Hide was a Member of Parliament for ACT from 1996 until 2011,was ACT's leader between 2004 and 2011,and represented the Epsom constituency from 2005 to 2011. In the Fifth National Government,Hide was Minister of Local Government,Associate Minister of Commerce and Minister of Regulatory Reform until 2011.
Ruth Suzanne Dyson is a former New Zealand politician. She was a Labour Party Member of Parliament from 1993 to 2020. She represented the Port Hills electorate from the 2008 election election to 2020. She also held a number of senior offices in the Labour Party,including president.
Peter McCardle,is a New Zealand politician. He was a Member of Parliament from 1990 to 1999,first as a member of the National Party,then as a member of New Zealand First,and finally as an independent. McCardle was deputy mayor of Upper Hutt from 2007 to 2013.
Christopher Francis Finlayson is a New Zealand lawyer and former Member of Parliament,representing the National Party.
Dame Frances Helen Wilde is a New Zealand politician,and former Wellington Labour member of parliament,Minister of Tourism and Mayor of Wellington. She was the first woman to serve as Mayor of Wellington. She was chairperson of the Greater Wellington Regional Council from 2007 until 2015,and since 2019 she has chaired the board of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Katrina May Shanks is a former New Zealand politician who was a list member of parliament for the National Party from 2007 to 2014.
Ōhāriu,previously spelled Ohariu and then Ōhariu,is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate returning one Member of Parliament to the House of Representatives. It first existed from 1978 to 1993,and was recreated for the 2008 election. In 2008,it was the successor to Ohariu-Belmont,first contested at the first mixed-member proportional (MMP) election in 1996. Through its existence Ohariu-Belmont was represented by Peter Dunne,leader of the United Future party. Dunne contested and won the recreated electorate in 2008. He announced on 21 August 2017 that he would not stand in the 2017 general election.
Grant Murray Robertson is a New Zealand politician and member of the Labour Party who has served as the minister of finance since 2017 and served as the 19th deputy prime minister of New Zealand from 2020 to 2023. He has been the member of Parliament (MP) for Wellington Central since 2008.
John Spencer Boscawen is a former New Zealand politician. He is a member of the ACT New Zealand Party and served as a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives from 2008 to 2011.
Ohariu-Belmont was a New Zealand parliamentary electorate from 1996 to 2008.
Tracey Anne Martin is a New Zealand politician and a former member of the New Zealand House of Representatives. Until 2021 she was a member of the New Zealand First Party,and served as its Deputy Leader from 2013 to 2015. She served as Minister for Children,Seniors,Internal Affairs and Associate Minister of Education from 2017 to 2020. Martin lost her seat in Parliament during the 2020 New Zealand general election.
Melissa Heni Mekameka Whaitiri is a New Zealand politician and former member of the New Zealand House of Representatives. She was first elected to Parliament in the 2013 Ikaroa-Rāwhiti by-election for the Labour Party.
The 2017 New Zealand general election took place on Saturday 23 September 2017 to determine the membership of the 52nd New Zealand Parliament. The previous parliament was elected on 20 September 2014 and was officially dissolved on 22 August 2017. Voters elected 120 members to the House of Representatives under New Zealand's mixed-member proportional (MMP) voting system,a proportional representation system in which 71 members were elected from single-member electorates and 49 members were elected from closed party lists. Around 3.57 million people were registered to vote in the election,with 2.63 million (79.8%) turning out. Advance voting proved popular,with 1.24 million votes cast before election day,more than the previous two elections combined.
Nicola Valentine Willis is Deputy Leader of the National Party and its finance spokesperson in the New Zealand Parliament. Willis inherited Steven Joyce's seat in Parliament as the next on the party list after his retirement from politics in March 2018.
Brooke Olivia van Velden is a New Zealand politician who has been a Member of Parliament since the 2020 general election for ACT New Zealand. She has been the party's deputy leader since June 2020.
Jessica Hammond is a New Zealand public servant,perennial candidate,playwright,and blogger. Hammond stood for The Opportunities Party for Ōhāriu in the 2017 and 2020 general elections.
