Sir Simon William English is a New Zealand former National Party politician who served as the 39th prime minister of New Zealand from 2016 to 2017 and as the 17th deputy prime minister of New Zealand and minister of finance from 2008 to 2016 under John Key and the Fifth National Government.
Lesley Frances Soper is a former New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.
Dipton is a small town in the Southland region of New Zealand. It is located 20 kilometres south of Lumsden and 60 kilometres north of Invercargill. From 20 October 1875 until its closure on 13 December 1982,Dipton was situated on the Kingston Branch railway.
Clutha-Southland was a parliamentary constituency returning one member to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The last MP for Clutha Southland was Hamish Walker of the National Party. He held the seat for one term,being elected at the 2017 general election and representing the electorate until the 2020 general election where he retired from Parliament,and the seat was replaced with the Southland electorate.
Kaikōura is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate,returning a single MP to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The current MP for Kaikōura is Stuart Smith of the National Party,who won the 2014 election.
Nicola Laura Kaye is a New Zealand politician who served as Deputy Leader of the New Zealand National Party and Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 22 May 2020 to 14 July 2020.
The 2014 New Zealand general election took place on Saturday 20 September 2014 to determine the membership of the 51st New Zealand Parliament.
Simon David O'Connor is a New Zealand politician and a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives. He is a member of the National Party. He has represented the Tāmaki electorate since 2011. He is a member of the Foreign Affairs,Defence,and Trade committee.
The 2017 New Zealand general election took place on Saturday 23 September 2017 to determine the membership of the 52nd New Zealand Parliament. The previous parliament was elected on 20 September 2014 and was officially dissolved on 22 August 2017. Voters elected 120 members to the House of Representatives under New Zealand's mixed-member proportional (MMP) voting system,a proportional representation system in which 71 members were elected from single-member electorates and 49 members were elected from closed party lists. Around 3.57 million people were registered to vote in the election,with 2.63 million (79.8%) turning out. Advance voting proved popular,with 1.24 million votes cast before election day,more than the previous two elections combined.
Priyanca Radhakrishnan is a New Zealand politician who has been elected to the New Zealand parliament since the 2017 general election as a representative of the New Zealand Labour Party and is currently Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector.
Stuart Tayler Smith is a New Zealand National Party politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives for the Kaikōura electorate since the 2014 general election. Before entering parliament he was a Marlborough grape grower and chairman of the New Zealand Winegrowers Association.
Christopher Bishop is a New Zealand National Party politician who was first elected to the New Zealand House of Representatives in 2014 as a list MP. Bishop won the Hutt South electorate in 2017 but lost the seat in 2020. He returned to Parliament as a National List MP and currently serves as National spokesperson for Housing and Infrastructure and is the Shadow Leader of the House. He is the Chairperson of National's 2023 Election Campaign.
The 2020 New Zealand general election was held on Saturday 17 October 2020 to determine the composition of the 53rd parliament. Voters elected 120 members to the House of Representatives,72 from single-member electorates and 48 from closed party lists. Two referendums,one on the personal use of cannabis and one on euthanasia,were also held on the same day. Official results of the election and referendums were released on 6 November.
The 2016 New Zealand National Party leadership election was held on 12 December 2016 to determine the next Leader of the National Party and the 39th Prime Minister of New Zealand. A secret exhaustive ballot of the 59-member National parliamentary caucus was to be used in the event of a contested leadership.
Seventy-one members of the New Zealand House of Representatives were elected from electorates in the general election on 23 September 2017.
Elizabeth Dorothy Craig is a New Zealand politician and Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for the Labour Party. As a public health physician,she has become known for her research work on child poverty.
Hamish Richard Walker is a New Zealand former politician and former Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for the National Party.
Mark William James Patterson is a New Zealand politician and former Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for the New Zealand First party.
This page lists candidates contesting electorates in the 2020 New Zealand general election.
Southland is an electorate to the New Zealand House of Representatives. It was first created for the 2020 New Zealand general election and has since then been held by Joseph Mooney of the National Party.
