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.
Sir Michael John Cullen was a New Zealand politician. He served as the 16th deputy prime minister of New Zealand,also as the minister of Finance,minister of Tertiary Education,and attorney-general. He was the deputy leader of the Labour Party from 1996 until November 2008,when he resigned following a defeat in the general election. He resigned from Parliament in April 2009,to become the deputy chairman of New Zealand Post from 1 November 2009 and chairman from 1 November 2010 until leaving the role in 2016. On 6 March 2020 he announced that he had resigned from the Lakes and Bay of Plenty district health boards,respectively. At the same time he also announced that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 small-cell lung cancer,which had also spread to his liver.
Jonathan Lucas Hunt is a New Zealand politician,and was New Zealand's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 2005 to March 2008. He formerly served as Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives. He is a member of the Labour Party,and was until his retirement in 2005 the longest-serving MP in Parliament. Hunt is a member of the Order of New Zealand,New Zealand's highest civilian honour. Hunt was given the nickname the "Minister for Wine and Cheese" after his well-known liking of the combo.
Richard Mark Burton is a New Zealand politician. He is a member of the Labour Party,serving as Minister of Defence,Minister of Justice,Minister of Local Government,Minister in Charge of Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations,Deputy Leader of the House,and the Minister Responsible for the Law Commission in the Fifth Labour Government of New Zealand.
David Richard Cunliffe is a New Zealand management consultant and former politician who was Leader of the New Zealand Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from September 2013 to September 2014. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Titirangi and then New Lynn for the Labour Party between 1999 and 2017. He served as the Minister of Health,Minister for Communications and Information Technology and Minister of Immigration for the Fifth Labour Government of New Zealand from October 2007 until November 2008.
Margaret Ann Hartley is a former New Zealand member of parliament,a former mayor of North Shore City,and a member of the Labour Party.
David William Parker is a New Zealand Labour Party politician who currently serves as Attorney-General,Minister for the Environment,Minister of Transport and Associate Minister of Finance in the Sixth Labour Government. He previously served as a Cabinet Minister in the Fifth Labour Government,Deputy Leader of the New Zealand Labour Party and Deputy Leader of the Opposition from September 2013 to September 2014,and as interim Leader of the Labour Party from September to November 2014. He represented the Otago electorate at the 47th Parliament and has since served as a list MP.
Wayne Daniel Mapp is a former New Zealand National Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament for North Shore from 1996 to 2011. In the first term of the Fifth National Government,he served as Minister of Defence. Prior to his political career Mapp was in the New Zealand Territorial Army and worked as a lawyer and university lecturer.
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.
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 Shanan Halbert of the Labour Party,who won the seat at the 2020 election.
Princes Street Labour is a branch of the New Zealand Labour Party in Auckland.
The Fifth National Government of New Zealand was the government of New Zealand for three parliamentary terms from 19 November 2008 to 26 October 2017. John Key served as National Leader and Prime Minister until December 2016,after which Bill English assumed the premiership until the National Government's defeat following the October 2017 government-forming negotiations.
Peeni Ereatara Gladwyn Henare is a New Zealand Labour Party politician who has been a member of the New Zealand parliament for the Tāmaki Makaurau Māori electorate since the 2014 general election.
The 2016 New Zealand National Party leadership election was held on 12 December 2016 to determine the next Leader of the National Party and the 39th Prime Minister of New Zealand. A secret exhaustive ballot of the 59-member National parliamentary caucus was to be used in the event of a contested leadership.
Kieran Michael McAnulty is a New Zealand Labour Party politician. First elected to parliament in 2017,he is a Cabinet minister and the Member of Parliament for the Wairarapa electorate. Formerly the Chief Government Whip,McAnulty is now the Minister of Local Government and Minister for Emergency Management,among other portfolios.
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.
Daniel Michael Bidois is a New Zealand politician and economist who sat as the National Party Member for Northcote in the New Zealand House of Representatives. Bidois was elected on 9 June 2018 as the Member for Northcote. He was a Strategy Manager for Foodstuffs prior to his election.
Shanan Kiritea Halbert is a New Zealand politician. As of 2020 he is a Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for the Labour Party.
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.
