Chris Penk

Candidate for Kaipara ki Mahurangi
Currently serving: MP for Kaipara ki Mahurangi, Parliament of New Zealand National
Party National
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Chris Penk’s Elections & Candidacies

Note: This database contains data from the 2023, 2020, 2017 and 2014 general elections, the 2025 local government election and is gradually being backfilled with other election data.

Contested 8 races — 3 elected 5 not elected

2023 NZ General Election • October 14, 2023 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: National Party
    Ballot name: PENK, Chris
    Final Not elected
  • MP for Kaipara ki Mahurangi
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: National Party
    Ballot name: PENK, Chris
    Final Elected
    Vote share • 58.2%
    28,281 votes
2020 NZ General Election • October 17, 2020 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: National Party
    Ballot name: PENK, Chris
    Final Not elected
  • MP for Kaipara ki Mahurangi
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: National Party
    Ballot name: PENK, Chris
    Final Elected
    Vote share • 45.5%
    20,402 votes
2017 NZ General Election • September 23, 2017 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: National Party
    Ballot name: PENK, Chris
    Final Not elected
  • MP for Helensville
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: National Party
    Ballot name: PENK, Chris
    Final Elected
2014 NZ General Election • September 20, 2014 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: National Party
    Ballot name: Chris Penk
    Final Not elected
  • MP for Kelston
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: National Party
    Final Not elected
Offices held
  • MP for Kaipara ki Mahurangi
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: National
    Oct 2020 – present
  • MP for Helensville
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: National
    Sep 2017 – Oct 2020
In the News
Govt faces $3.2 billion bill as court slams Veterans’ Affairs for rejecting Agent Orange link to brain tumour
NZ Herald — October 25, 2025

Veterans' minister Chris Penk says law might now change but will hold faith with veterans.

One MP, One Pint: Arena Williams, when did you get hot?
The Spinoff — October 23, 2025

Labour MP Arena Williams is one of few people who can dissect the works of Geoffrey Palmer and Sabrina Carpenter in the same breath. Arena Williams’ whakapapa is Ngāti Labour. Her staunch Labour-loving great-grans were able to spend money on Williams’ father, Sir Haare Williams’ education (he once vied for a Labour nomination in 1992) thanks to Michael Joseph Savage’s extension to the old age pension for Māori.

One MP, One Pint: Calling ‘bullshit’ on the government with Duncan Webb
The Spinoff — October 10, 2025

Labour MP Duncan Webb does not endorse eating our national bird for dinner.

One MP, One Pint: Cameron Luxton might be the greenest Act MP
The Spinoff — October 1, 2025

Act MP Cameron Luxton is a spiritual being in an animal body. Cameron Luxton reminds me of the type of bloke time almost forgot, a man who fixes up his “tinny” on the weekend (“not that kind of tinny! It’s a boat!”), knows how to build a house and can give you some pretty decent advice about trapping. As someone who is chronically online and at one point averaged nine hours of daily screen time, these are the kind of qualities I really admire in a person.

The two-horse race to keep Christchurch booming
The Spinoff — September 25, 2025

A progressive councillor is challenging Ōtautahi’s relentlessly cheerful incumbent for the mayoral chains. Will residents choose a known quantity or a new direction?

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