Damien Peter O'Connor is a New Zealand Labour Party politician who served 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.
Christopher John Auchinvole is a New Zealand politician. He represented the National Party in the House of Representatives from 2005 to 2014.
West Coast-Tasman is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate. Since its formation for the 1996 election,it has been held by Damien O'Connor of the Labour Party apart from one parliamentary term,when National's Chris Auchinvole was the representative from 2008 to 2011.
James Begg Kent was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. He served as a Member of Parliament and was both a borough councillor and deputy mayor of Greymouth.
Jonathan Mark Naylor,commonly known as Jono Naylor,is a New Zealand politician from Palmerston North. He was Mayor of Palmerston North from 2007 until 2014,when he was elected to the House of Representatives in the 2014 election as a list MP for the National Party. He did not stand for re-election as an MP in 2017. In 2018 he was elected to Horizons Regional Council in the by-election following the death of Councillor Pat Kelly. He was re-elected to Horizons in the 2019 local election and was appointed as Horizons deputy chair.
Barbara Joan Kuriger is a New Zealand politician who was elected to the New Zealand parliament at the 2014 general election as a representative of the New Zealand National Party.
Matthew Maurice Doocey is a New Zealand politician who was elected to the New Zealand Parliament at the 2014 general election as a representative of the New Zealand National Party. He was re-elected in 2017 with a majority increase of over 10,000 which was a significant increase from a majority of 2,500 in 2014. It was reported that this was the largest personal vote increase in the country.
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 served 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. He is the current MP for Hutt South. He is a former lobbyist for tobacco company Phillip Morris.
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.
Chlöe Charlotte Swarbrick is a New Zealand politician. Following a high-profile but unsuccessful run for the 2016 Auckland mayoral election,she became a parliamentary candidate for the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand,standing in the 2017 New Zealand general election and was elected as a member of the New Zealand Parliament at the age of 23. In the 2020 election,Swarbrick was elected as the Member of Parliament for Auckland Central,becoming the second Green Party MP ever to win an electorate seat,and the first without a tacit endorsement from a major party leader. She retained Auckland Central in the 2023 election.
Erica Louise Stanford is a New Zealand politician and Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for the National Party.
Christopher Aidan Penk is a New Zealand politician who has been a Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for the National Party since 2017.
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 mayor of Westland officiates over the Westland District of New Zealand's South Island. It has been administered by Westland District Council since 1989. The current mayor is Helen Lash,who was elected in 2022.
Naisi Chen is a New Zealand politician who served as a Member of Parliament for the Labour Party from 2020 to 2023.
Penelope Elsie Simmonds is a New Zealand politician and Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for the National Party. She previously served as the chief executive of the Southern Institute of Technology.
The 2021 New Zealand National Party leadership election was held on 30 November 2021 following the removal of leader Judith Collins in a vote of no confidence on 25 November 2021. Deputy leader Shane Reti was made interim leader until the election. Simon Bridges was the only person to publicly announce his candidacy. About an hour before the National Party caucus was set to meet,he withdrew from the race and endorsed Christopher Luxon.
The Shadow Cabinet of Christopher Luxon formed the official Opposition in the 53rd New Zealand Parliament from December 2021 to November 2023,replacing the Shadow Cabinet of Judith Collins. Christopher Luxon was appointed Leader of the National Party and Leader of the Opposition in a party leadership election on 30 November 2021.
Freedoms New Zealand,also known as Freedoms NZ:Uniting Political Parties and Freedom Movements,is a registered political alliance in New Zealand,founded on 22 August 2022 by Brian Tamaki following a series of protests. Today it is co-led by Tamaki and Sue Grey. It is an "umbrella party",consisting of an alliance between Tamaki's Freedom and Rights Coalition organization,the registered Vision NZ and Outdoors &Freedom parties,and the unregistered Yes Aotearoa and Rock The Vote NZ parties.
The 2022 Hamilton West by-election was a by-election in New Zealand's Hamilton West electorate. The seat became vacant due to the resignation of former Labour Party MP Gaurav Sharma on 18 October 2022 after expulsion from the party caucus.
