Heather Roy is a former New Zealand politician. She was a Member of Parliament for ACT New Zealand from 2002 until 2011.
Margaret Anne Wilson is a New Zealand lawyer,academic and former Labour Party politician. She served as Attorney-General from 1999 to 2005 and Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2005 to 2008,during the Fifth Labour Government.
Jill Ovens is a New Zealand trade unionist,politician,and anti-transgender rights activist. She is the founder and current National Secretary of the Women's Rights Party.
Eliza Ellen Melville was a New Zealand lawyer and politician. She was New Zealand's second female lawyer,and the first woman elected to a city council in New Zealand. She sat on the Auckland City Council for 33 years and was tireless in her work for women's organisations and causes,including in particular the National Council of Women of New Zealand. She believed in the importance of women participating fully and equally in public life,and was a key figure in the revival of the feminist movement in New Zealand after women's suffrage. She was one of the first women to stand for Parliament in New Zealand and ultimately stood (unsuccessfully) seven times.
Auckland Central is a New Zealand electoral division returning one member to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The electorate is currently represented by Chlöe Swarbrick,a member of the Green Party;she has represented the seat since 2020.
Selina Sarah Elizabeth Siggins was an Australian political activist who became the first woman to stand for the Australian House of Representatives. She ran as an independent at the 1903 federal election,the first at which women were eligible to be candidates. Although she spent most of her life in New South Wales,in 1918 she also became one of the first two women to stand for the Parliament of South Australia. Siggins was introduced to politics through her involvement in the labour movement,and initially supported the Labor Party. She eventually fell out with the party over its refusal to endorse her as a candidate. Her final run for parliament came at the 1922 federal election,where she became the first woman to stand for the Country Party.
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.
Mount Albert is a parliamentary electorate based around the suburb of Mount Albert in Auckland,New Zealand,returning one member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Representatives. It has elected only Labour Party MPs since it was first contested at the 1946 election. The electorate is currently held by Helen White and was recently represented by Jacinda Ardern,formerly Prime Minister of New Zealand,who was first elected in a 2017 by-election and stepped down from parliament on 15 April 2023. Before her,Mt Albert was represented by David Shearer from 13 June 2009 to 31 December 2016;it was represented by Helen Clark from the 1981 general election until her resignation from Parliament on 17 April 2009.
Celia Margaret Wade-Brown is a New Zealand politician who served as the 34th Mayor of Wellington,the capital city of New Zealand,from 2010 until 2016.
James Peter Edward Shaw is a New Zealand politician. He has been a member of parliament since 2014 and a leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand since 2015.
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.
The Opportunities Party is a centrist political party in New Zealand. It was founded in 2016 by economist and philanthropist Gareth Morgan. The party is based on the idea of evidence-based policy,with some 2023 policies including achieving a “fair tax system”by implementing a "tax switch" and implementing the "Teal Card" for young people,as well as specific investments for the city of Christchurch.
Helen Ione White is a New Zealand politician. In 2020 she became a Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for the Labour Party. In 2023,she was chosen by Labour to contest the Mount Albert electorate,previously held by former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. White won the seat,holding it for Labour,but by a significantly reduced margin of 18 votes.
Geoffrey Leonard Simmons is an economist and former leader of The Opportunities Party (TOP),a political party in New Zealand. He stood for TOP in the February 2017 Mount Albert by-election,in the Wellington Central electorate in the 2017 general election,and in the Rongotai electorate in the 2020 general election.
Nicola Valentine Willis is Deputy Leader of the National Party and Minister of Finance in a Coalition Government with ACT and New Zealand First. Willis entered the New Zealand Parliament in 2018,when she inherited Steven Joyce's seat in Parliament as the next on the party list after his retirement from politics.
The 2023 New Zealand general election was held on 14 October 2023 to determine the composition of the 54th Parliament of New Zealand. Voters elected 122 members to the unicameral New Zealand House of Representatives under the mixed-member proportional (MMP) voting system,with 71 members elected from single-member electorates and the remaining members elected from closed party lists. Of the 72 electorates,only 71 seats were filled,with the remaining electorate MP determined in the 2023 Port Waikato by-election,due to the death of one of the general election candidates. Two overhang seats were added due to Te Pāti Māori winning six electorate seats when the party vote only entitled them to four seats,with an additional overhang seat added after the by-election making for 123 members of parliament.
Claire Elizabeth Szabó is a New Zealand chief executive officer and was president of the New Zealand Labour Party from 2019 to 2022.
Tamatha-Kaye Erin Paul is a New Zealand activist and politician who is a member of the Wellington City Council for the Pukehīnau Lambton Ward. In 2018 she was the first Māori woman to be elected President of the Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Running as an independent Paul was elected to the city council in 2019. She joined the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand ahead of the 2022 local elections.
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.
This page lists candidates contesting electorates in the 2023 New Zealand general election.
