Winston Raymond Peters is a New Zealand politician who has been serving as the leader of New Zealand First since its foundation in 1993. Peters served as the 13th deputy prime minister of New Zealand from 1996 to 1998 and 2017 to 2020,the minister of Foreign Affairs from 2005 to 2008 and 2017 to 2020,and the treasurer of New Zealand from 1996 to 1998. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 1981,1984 to 2008 and 2011 to 2020.
James Brendan Bolger is a New Zealand retired politician of the National Party who was the 35th prime minister of New Zealand,serving from 1990 to 1997.
The 1999 New Zealand general election was held on 27 November 1999 to determine the composition of the 46th New Zealand Parliament. The governing National Party,led by Prime Minister Jenny Shipley,was defeated,being replaced by a coalition of Helen Clark's Labour Party and the smaller Alliance. This marked an end to nine years of the Fourth National Government,and the beginning of the Fifth Labour Government which would govern for nine years in turn,until its loss to the National Party in the 2008 general election. It was the first New Zealand election where both major parties had female leaders.
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.
Sir William Francis Birch,usually known as Bill Birch,is a New Zealand retired politician. He served as Minister of Finance from 1993 to 1999 in the fourth National Government.
Dame Annette Faye King is a former New Zealand politician. She served as Deputy Leader of the New Zealand Labour Party and Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 2008 to 2011,and from 2014 until 1 March 2017. She was a Cabinet Minister in the Fourth and Fifth Labour Governments,and was the MP for the Rongotai electorate in Wellington from 1996 to 2017.
The Tauranga by-election was a by-election in the New Zealand electorate of Tauranga,a city in New Zealand's North Island. It took place on 17 April 1993,and was precipitated by the resignation from parliament of sitting MP Winston Peters. Peters,who had been increasingly at odds with his National Party colleagues,had resigned both from his party and from Parliament. He contested the seat as an independent.
The 1981 New Zealand general election,held on 28 November 1981,was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the 40th New Zealand Parliament. It saw the governing National Party,led by Robert Muldoon,win a third term in office,but the opposition Labour Party,led by Bill Rowling,won the largest share of the votes cast. Social Credit also won over 20% of the vote- their best result ever- but received no new seats.
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.
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.
Nanaia Cybele Mahuta is a New Zealand Labour Party politician who is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hauraki-Waikato and Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2020.
Anne Merrilyn Tolley is a New Zealand politician and former member of the New Zealand House of Representatives representing the National Party. She was New Zealand's first female Minister of Education from 2008 to 2011 and the first Minister for Children from 2016 to 2017. During the Fifth National Government,she was also Minister of Social Development,Minister of Corrections,Minister of Police and Minister of Local Government. She served as Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2017 to 2020. She is currently the Chair of the Commission overseeing the Tauranga City Council,which was appointed after a review in 2020 identified significant governance problems within the Council.
Katherine Victoria O'Regan was a New Zealand politician. She was a member of parliament from 1984 to 1999,representing the National Party. She served as a minister for the National Government for six of those years.
The 43rd New Zealand Parliament was a term of the Parliament of New Zealand. Its composition was determined by the 1990 elections,and it sat until the 1993 elections.
The 2008 New Zealand general election was held on 8 November 2008 to determine the composition of the 49th New Zealand Parliament. The liberal-conservative National Party,headed by its parliamentary leader John Key,won the largest share of votes and seats,ending nine years of government by the social-democratic Labour Party,led by Helen Clark. Key announced a week later that he would lead a National minority government with confidence-and-supply support from the ACT,United Future and Māori parties. The Governor-General swore Key in as New Zealand's 38th Prime Minister on 19 November 2008. This marked the beginning of the Fifth National Government which governed for the next nine years,until the 2017 general election,when a government was formed between the Labour and New Zealand First parties,with support on confidence and supply by the Green Party.
Trevor Albert de Cleene was a New Zealand politician and lawyer. After gaining experience as a councillor with Palmerston North City Council,he was elected to Parliament for the Labour Party in 1981. He was a strong supporter of Rogernomics and was a minister outside cabinet. He resigned his ministerial portfolios in 1988 when Roger Douglas was sacked by David Lange. For his remaining parliamentary career,he was a backbencher known as one of the Three Musketeers. Later,he was a founding member of ACT New Zealand and some years later joined the National Party to help oppose Winston Peters in Tauranga.
Simon Joseph Bridges is a former New Zealand politician and lawyer. He served as Leader of the National Party and Leader of the Opposition between 2018 and 2020,and as the Member of Parliament for Tauranga from the 2008 election to May 2022,when he resigned.
Carmel Jean Sepuloni is a New Zealand politician and a Member of Parliament for the Labour Party who has been the deputy prime minister of New Zealand since 25 January 2023. She was first elected to Parliament following the 2008 general election as a list member,becoming New Zealand's first MP of Tongan descent.
Janette Rose Tinetti is a New Zealand politician and a Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for the Labour Party.
Willow-Jean Prime is a New Zealand politician who was elected to the New Zealand Parliament at the 2017 general election as a list representative of the New Zealand Labour Party. At the 2020 election,she won the electorate of Northland by 163 votes,the closest election of the 2020 cycle.
