Michael Kenneth Moore was a New Zealand politician,union organiser,and author. In the Fourth Labour Government he served in several portfolios including minister of Foreign Affairs,and was the 34th prime minister of New Zealand for 59 days before the 1990 general election elected a new parliament. Following Labour's defeat in that election,Moore served as Leader of the Opposition until the 1993 election,after which Helen Clark successfully challenged him for the Labour Party leadership.
Lianne Audrey Dalziel is New Zealand politician and the current Mayor of Christchurch. Prior to this position,she was a member of the New Zealand Parliament for 23 years,serving as Minister of Immigration,Commerce,Minister of Food Safety and Associate Minister of Justice in the Fifth Labour Government. She resigned from Cabinet on 20 February 2004 after apparently lying about a leak of documents to the media,but was reinstated as a Minister following Labour's return to office after the 2005 election. She resigned from Parliament effective 11 October 2013 to contest the Christchurch mayoral election. The incumbent,Bob Parker,decided not to stand again,and she was widely regarded as the top favourite and won with a wide margin to become the 46th Mayor of Christchurch.
Sir David Cunningham Carter is a New Zealand National Party politician who served as the 29th Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives from 2013 to 2017 and as a Cabinet Minister in the Fourth and Fifth National Governments. He represented the Selwyn electorate in the 44th Parliament and the Banks Peninsula electorate in the 45th Parliament. He served as a list MP from 1999 until he retired at the 2020 election.
Clayton James Cosgrove is a former New Zealand politician. He is a member of the Labour Party.
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.
Marian Leslie Hobbs is a New Zealand politician who was a Labour Member of Parliament from 1996 to 2008. She was initially a list MP and then represented the Wellington Central electorate. She served as Minister for the Environment and,later,as one of two Assistant Speakers of the House of Representatives. She represented the Dunedin constituency of the Otago Regional Council from 2019 to 2021.
Christopher Francis Finlayson is a New Zealand lawyer and former Member of Parliament,representing the National Party.
Nicola Joanne Wagner is a New Zealand teacher,businesswoman and politician. She represented the Christchurch Central electorate for the New Zealand National Party in the New Zealand Parliament.
Christchurch Central is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate in the South Island city of Christchurch. The electorate was established for the 1946 election and,until 2011 had always been won by the Labour Party. Since 2008,the incumbent was Brendon Burns but the election night results for the 2011 election resulted in a tie;the special vote results combined with a judicial recount revealed a 47-vote majority for Nicky Wagner,the National list MP based in the electorate. Wagner significantly increased her winning margin in the 2014 election after having declared the electorate "unwinnable" for National earlier in the year following a boundary review. At the 2017 election Wagner lost the seat to Labour's Duncan Webb,who retained it at the 2020 election.
Christchurch East,originally called Christchurch City East,is a current New Zealand parliamentary electorate. It was first created for the 1871 election and was abolished for two period,from 1875–1905 and again from 1946–1996. It was last created for the introduction of the MMP voting system for the 1996 election. The current MP is Poto Williams,a member of the New Zealand Labour Party who was first elected in the 2013 Christchurch East by-election.
Waimakariri is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate,formed for the 1996 election and returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The MP for Waimakariri is Matt Doocey of the National Party. He has held this position since the 2014 election and takes over from Kate Wilkinson,who defeated Clayton Cosgrove (Labour) in the 2011 election.
Patricia Hekia Parata is a former New Zealand politician and former member of the New Zealand House of Representatives,having been elected to parliament in the 2008 general election as a member of the New Zealand National Party. She served as the Minister of Education in the Fifth National Government.
The 2011 New Zealand general election took place on Saturday 26 November 2011 to determine the membership of the 50th New Zealand Parliament.
Eugenie Meryl Sage is a New Zealand politician and environmentalist. Since the 2011 election,she has been a Green Party list MP in the House of Representatives and served as the Minister of Conservation and Land Information and the Associate Minister for the Environment from 2017 to 2020.
Megan Cherie Woods is a New Zealand Labour Party politician who serves as a Cabinet Minister in the Sixth Labour Government and has served as Member of Parliament for Wigram since 2011.
A by-election was held in the New Zealand electorate of Christchurch East on 30 November 2013. The seat was vacated following the resignation of Lianne Dalziel of the Labour Party from parliament,who contested and won the Christchurch mayoralty in October 2013.
Munokoa Poto Williams is a New Zealand Labour Party politician and a member of Parliament. She was elected in a 2013 by-election and is currently Minister of Conservation and Minister for Disability Issues in the Sixth Labour Government.
Jennifer Teresia Salesa is a New Zealand politician and member of the Labour Party who has served as a Member of Parliament since 2014. She was first elected as MP for Manukau East,and after its abolition in 2020 won the replacement electorate of Panmure-Ōtāhuhu. She served as a Cabinet Minister in the Sixth Labour Government as Minister for Building and Construction,Minister of Customs and Minister for Ethnic Communities from 2017 until 6 November 2020.
Matthew Maurice Doocey is a New Zealand politician who was elected to the New Zealand Parliament at the 2014 general election as a representative of the New Zealand National Party. He was re-elected in 2017 with a majority increase of over 10,000 which was a significant increase from a majority of 2,500 in 2014. It was reported that this was the largest personal vote increase in the country.
Daniel Peter Rosewarne is a New Zealand politician and Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for the Labour Party.
