Peter Francis Dunne is a retired New Zealand politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ōhāriu. He held the seat and its predecessors from 1984 to 2017—representing the Labour Party in Parliament from 1984 to 1994,and a succession of minor centrist parties from 1994. He was the Leader of Future New Zealand from 1994 to 1995,United New Zealand from 1996 to 2000,and United Future from 2000 to 2017.
Nicolas Rex Smith is a New Zealand politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the National Party. Smith represented the Nelson electorate from 1996 to 2020 and,before that,was the member for Tasman from 1990 to 1996. Following his defeat in the Nelson electorate in the 2020 election,he served as a list MP for less than a year before retiring from politics in 2021.
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.
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.
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.
Heather Roy,is a former New Zealand politician who served as an ACT Member of Parliament from 2002 until 2011.
Darren Colyn Hughes is a New Zealand former Member of Parliament between 2002 and 2011,first elected at the age of 24. He represented the Labour Party and was a Minister outside Cabinet in the Fifth Labour Government of New Zealand.
Damien Peter O'Connor is a New Zealand Labour Party politician who currently serves as Minister of Agriculture,Minister for Biosecurity,Minister for Trade and Export Growth,Minister for Land Information and Minister for Rural Communities in the Sixth Labour Government. He previously served as a cabinet minister in the Fifth Labour Government. He has been a member of Parliament since 1993 and currently represents the West Coast-Tasman electorate.
Murray Stuart McCully is a former New Zealand politician. He is a member of the National Party,and served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2008 to 2017.
Warren James Kyd is a lawyer and former New Zealand politician.
New Zealand Republic Inc. is an organisation formed in 1994 whose object is to support the creation of a New Zealand republic.
Darien Elizabeth Fenton is a New Zealand politician and was a Member of Parliament from 2005 until her retirement in 2014.
Charles Pierre Chauvel is a New Zealand lawyer and former New Zealand politician who was a Labour list Member of Parliament (2006–2013) until his resignation to take up a position with the UN Development Programme. He was the first New Zealand MP of Tahitian ancestry.
Port Waikato is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate which existed for four parliamentary terms from 1996 to 2008,and was recreated by the 2019/20 electoral redistribution ahead of the 2020 election. It was held by Bill Birch for one term,and by Paul Hutchison for the following three terms;both were members of the National Party.
Louisa Hareruia Wall is a New Zealand Labour Party politician,who currently serves as a list Member of Parliament. She has represented New Zealand in both netball as a Silver Fern and rugby union as a member of the Black Ferns.
Paul Ayers Robert Foster-Bell is a former New Zealand diplomat,a politician and was a list member of the House of Representatives between May 2013 and 2017. He is a member of the National Party and a monarchist. He failed to win the party's nomination for the Whangarei electorate in March 2014,but remained in Parliament as a list MP for the following term.
Andrew Henry Bayly,FRGS,is a New Zealand politician who was elected to the New Zealand Parliament at the 2014 general election as the MP for Hunua and a representative of the New Zealand National Party.
Todd Michael Muller is a New Zealand politician who served as the Leader of the New Zealand National Party and the Leader of the Opposition from 22 May to 14 July 2020.
The New Zealand Abortion Legislation Act 2020 is an Act of Parliament in New Zealand that amends the law to decriminalise abortion. Under the act,abortion is available without restrictions to any woman who is not more than 20 weeks pregnant. Women seeking an abortion after 20 weeks have to be assessed by a qualified health professional.
Arena Williams is a New Zealand politician. As of 2020,she is a Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for the Labour Party.
