Te Pāti Māori,also known as the Māori Party,is a political party in New Zealand advocating Māori rights. With the exception of a handful of general electorates,Te Pāti Māori contests the reserved Māori electorates,in which its main rival is the Labour Party.
In New Zealand politics,Māori electorates,colloquially known as the Māori seats,are a special category of electorate that give reserved positions to representatives of Māori in the New Zealand Parliament. Every area in New Zealand is covered by both a general and a Māori electorate;as of 2020,there are seven Māori electorates. Since 1967,candidates in Māori electorates have not needed to be Māori themselves,but to register as a voter in the Māori electorates people need to declare that they are of Māori descent.
Sir Pita Russell Sharples is a New Zealand Māori academic and politician,who was a co-leader of the Māori Party from 2004 to 2013,and a minister outside Cabinet in the National Party-led government from 2008 to 2014. He was the member of Parliament for the Tāmaki Makaurau electorate in Auckland from 2005 to 2014. He stepped down as co-leader role of the Māori Party in July 2013.
South Auckland is one of the major geographical regions of Auckland,the largest city in New Zealand. The area is south of the Auckland isthmus,and on the eastern shores of the Manukau Harbour. The area has been populated by Tāmaki Māori since at least the 14th century,and has important archaeological sites,such as the Ōtuataua stonefield gardens at Ihumātao,and Māngere Mountain,a former pāsite important to Waiohua tribes.
William Wakatere Jackson is a New Zealand politician and former broadcaster and Urban Māori chief executive. He was an Alliance MP from 1999 to 2002,and in 2017 was elected as a Labour MP.
Tāmati Gerald Coffey is a New Zealand broadcaster,politician,and former Member of Parliament.
Tāmaki Makaurau is a New Zealand parliamentary Māori electorate returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. It was first formed for the 2002 election. The electorate covers central and southern Auckland,and southern parts of western Auckland. It derives its name from the Māori-language name for Auckland;Makaurau is a descriptive epithet referring to the value and desirability of the land.
Hauraki-Waikato is a New Zealand parliamentary Māori electorate first established for the 2008 election. It largely replaced the Tainui electorate. Nanaia Mahuta of the Labour Party,formerly the MP for Tainui,became MP for Hauraki-Waikato in the 2008 general election and was re-elected in 2011,2014,2017 and 2020.
Seventy members of the New Zealand House of Representatives elected in the 2011 general election were from single member constituencies,the same number as in 2008. The initial composition of the 2008 Parliament gave the National Party 41 seats,the Labour Party 21,the Māori Party five and ACT,United Future and the Progressive Party one each.
Thomas Kavanagh Weal was a New Zealand politician for the Social Credit Political League,the New Democratic Party and the short lived Christian Democrat party.
Peeni Ereatara Gladwyn Henare is a New Zealand Labour Party politician who has been a member of the New Zealand parliament since the 2014 general election. Henare held the Tāmaki Makaurau Māori electorate since 2014 before being defeated by Te Pāti Māori's Takutai Tarsh Kemp in the 2023 general election.
Marama Mere-Ana Davidson is a New Zealand politician who entered the New Zealand Parliament in 2015 as a list-member representing the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand,of which she became the female co-leader in 2018.
Hauraki was a New Zealand parliamentary Māori electorate returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. It existed for one parliamentary term from 1999 to 2002,and was held by John Tamihere. The electorate's area was formed from the northern portion of Te Tai Rawhiti as well as a small portion of Te Tai Hauāuru. Its area was expanded significantly westward to form the Tainui electorate for the 2002 election.
The 2020 New Zealand general election was held on Saturday 17 October 2020 to determine the composition of the 53rd New Zealand Parliament. Voters elected 120 members to the House of Representatives,72 from single-member electorates and 48 from closed party lists. Two referendums,one on the personal use of cannabis and one on euthanasia,were also held on the same day. Official results of the election and referendums were released on 6 November.
Rachel Elizabeth Boyack-Mayer is a New Zealand politician and Member of Parliament for the Labour Party. She was elected to parliament in 2020,winning the Nelson electorate with a majority of 4,525,ousting incumbent Nick Smith who had held the seat since 1996. Boyack was re-elected in the 2023 election,by a reduced margin of 26 votes.
Vision NZ is a nationalist political party in New Zealand led by Hannah Tamaki,the co-leader of the fundamentalist Christian movement Destiny Church. Its policies have included opposition to abortion,homosexuality,immigration,and the construction of new mosques. It has supported creating a Māori-owned bank and Tūhoe ownership of Te Urewera,and has called for government funding for Destiny Church programmes.
This page lists candidates contesting electorates in the 2020 New Zealand general election.
Debbie Anne Ngarewa-Packer is a New Zealand politician,iwi leader and activist. She is a Member of Parliament and co-leader of Te Pāti Māori alongside Rawiri Waititi,and is the chief executive of the Ngāti Ruanui iwi.
Hannah Tamaki JP is the wife of Brian Tamaki,the leader of the Pentecostal fundamentalist movement Destiny Church. She is also the leader of the Christian fundamentalist political party Vision NZ.
Takutai Moana Natasha Kemp is a New Zealand politician and hiphop dance director. Kemp won the Tāmaki Makaurau electorate for the Māori Party by 42 votes in the official results of the 2023 New Zealand general election.
