Dame Tariana Turia is a former New Zealand politician. She was first elected to Parliament in 1996. Turia gained considerable prominence during the foreshore and seabed controversy in 2004,and eventually broke with the Labour Party as a result. She resigned from parliament,and successfully contested a by-election in her former electorate as a candidate of the newly formed Māori Party,of which became a co-leader. She retired from Parliament in 2014.
Te Pāti Māori,also known as the Māori Party,is a political party in New Zealand advocating Māori rights. With the exception of a handful of general electorates,Te Pāti Māori contests the reserved Māori electorates,in which its main rival is the Labour Party.
In New Zealand politics,Māori electorates,colloquially known as the Māori seats,are a special category of electorate that give reserved positions to representatives of Māori in the New Zealand Parliament. Every area in New Zealand is covered by both a general and a Māori electorate;as of 2020,there are seven Māori electorates. Since 1967,candidates in Māori electorates have not needed to be Māori themselves,but to register as a voter in the Māori electorates people need to declare that they are of Māori descent.
Te Whakamaharatanga Okeroa is a former New Zealand politician of the New Zealand Labour Party. He represented the Te Tai Tonga Māori electorate as a Member of Parliament from 1999 to 2008.
Tini "Whetu" Marama Tirikatene-Sullivan was a New Zealand politician. She was an MP from 1967 to 1996,representing the Labour Party and was New Zealand’s first Māori woman cabinet minister. At the time of her retirement,she was the second longest-serving MP in Parliament,being in her tenth term of office. She was one of twenty holders of the Order of New Zealand,the highest honour of the country.
Māori politics is the politics of the Māori people,who were the original inhabitants of New Zealand and who are now the country's largest minority. Before the arrival of Pākehā(Europeans) in New Zealand,Māori society was based largely around tribal units,and chiefs provided political leadership. With the British settlers of the 19th century came a new British-style government. From the outset,Māori sought representation within this government,seeing it as a vital way to promote their people's rights and improve living standards. Modern Māori politics can be seen as a subset of New Zealand politics in general,but has a number of distinguishing features,including advocacy for indigenous rights and Māori sovereignty. Many Māori politicians are members of major,historically European-dominated political parties,but several Māori parties have been formed.
Te Tai Tonga is a New Zealand parliamentary Māori electorate,returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. It was established for the 1996 general election,replacing Southern Maori. It covers all of the South Island,Stewart Island,the Chatham Islands,and parts of both Wellington City and the Hutt Valley. The current MP for Te Tai Tonga is Tākuta Ferris of Te Pāti Māori.
Southern Maori was one of New Zealand's four original parliamentary Māori electorates established in 1868,along with Eastern Maori,Western Maori and Eastern Maori. In 1996,with the introduction of MMP,the Maori electorates were updated,and Southern Maori was replaced with the Te Tai Tonga and Te Puku O Te Whenua electorates.
Rahui Reid Katene is a New Zealand politician. She was elected to the 49th New Zealand Parliament at the 2008 general election representing the Māori Party in the seat of Te Tai Tonga,but lost in the 2011 general election to Labour's Rino Tirikatene.
The 2011 New Zealand general election took place on Saturday 26 November 2011 to determine the membership of the 50th New Zealand Parliament.
Kelvin Glen Davis is a New Zealand politician. He is a member of the House of Representatives,and was a senior minister in the Sixth Labour Government and the deputy leader of the New Zealand Labour Party from 2017 to 2023.
Melissa Heni Mekameka Whaitiri is a New Zealand politician and former member of the New Zealand House of Representatives. She was first elected to Parliament in the 2013 Ikaroa-Rāwhiti by-election for the Labour Party.
The Southern Māori by-election of 1967 was a by-election for the electorate of Southern Maori on 11 March 1967 during the 35th New Zealand Parliament. The by-election resulted from the death of the previous member Sir Eruera Tirikatene on 11 January 1967.
Peeni Ereatara Gladwyn Henare is a New Zealand Labour Party politician who has been a member of the New Zealand parliament since the 2014 general election. Henare held the Tāmaki Makaurau Māori electorate since 2014 before being defeated by Te Pāti Māori's Takutai Tarsh Kemp in the 2023 general election.
Adrian Paki Rurawhe is a New Zealand Labour Party politician. He has been an MP since 2014,and the speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives from 2022 to 2023.
Virginia Ruby Andersen is a New Zealand politician. She has been a Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for the Labour Party since the 2017 New Zealand general election.
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.
Tākuta "Doc" Ferris is a New Zealand politician who was elected to the New Zealand parliament at the 2023 general election as the MP for Te Tai Tonga for Te Pāti Māori. A self-described fisherman,diver,and artist,his electoral success was one of the biggest surprises of the 2023 general election. His win was unexpected,with the family of the incumbent having held the Te Tai Tonga electorate for 72 of the last 91 years.
Several polling firms conducted opinion polls during the term of the 53rd New Zealand Parliament (2020–2023) for the 2023 New Zealand general election. The regular polls are the quarterly polls produced by Television New Zealand conducted by Verian and Discovery New Zealand (Newshub) conducted by Reid Research,along with monthly polls by Roy Morgan,and by Curia. The sample size,margin of error and confidence interval of each poll varies by organisation and date.
The 54th New Zealand Parliament is the current meeting of the legislature in New Zealand. It opened on 5 December 2023 following the 14 October 2023 general election,and will expire on or before 16 November 2026 to trigger the next election.
