Brooke van Velden

Candidate for Tāmaki
Currently serving: MP for Tāmaki, Parliament of New Zealand ACT
Party ACT
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Brooke van Velden’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 6 races — 1 elected 5 not elected

2023 NZ General Election • October 14, 2023 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: ACT New Zealand
    Ballot name: VAN VELDEN, Brooke
    Final Not elected
  • MP for Tāmaki
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: ACT New Zealand
    Ballot name: VAN VELDEN, Brooke
    Final Elected
    Vote share • 43.7%
    17,858 votes
2020 NZ General Election • October 17, 2020 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: ACT New Zealand
    Ballot name: van VELDEN, Brooke
    Final Not elected
  • MP for Wellington Central
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: ACT New Zealand
    Ballot name: van VELDEN, Brooke
    Final Not elected
    Vote share • 1.8%
    865 votes
2017 NZ General Election • September 23, 2017 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: ACT New Zealand
    Ballot name: VAN VELDEN, Brooke
    Final Not elected
  • MP for Auckland Central
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: ACT New Zealand
    Ballot name: VAN VELDEN, Brooke
    Final Not elected
Offices held
  • MP for Tāmaki
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: ACT
    Oct 2023 – present
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: ACT
    Oct 2020 – Oct 2023
In the News
No longer any employee representation on WorkSafe board - CTU
Otago Daily Times — October 28, 2025

Workplace Relations Minister Brooke van Velden. Photo: RNZ The government needs to include employee representation on the WorkSafe board, says the Council of Trade Unions.

Letters: Brooke van Velden’s ‘high trust’ approach draws criticism
NZ Herald — October 28, 2025

OPINION: A reader responds to Brooke van Velden’s attitude toward public consultation.

Meet Brooke van Velden – the minister loathed by unions and loved by business
NZ Herald — October 27, 2025

The minister's biggest piece of contentious policy reform is yet to come.

What Elon’s sexual chatbot said to NZ Ministers: ‘Brooke and Erica - you're cute’
Stuff — October 2, 2025

Ani may be a highly sexual AI chatbot. But she has also given top-level political advice to Brooke van Velden and Erica Stanford.

The peril of politicising judicial appointments
The Post — October 1, 2025

OPINION: Workplace Relations Minister Brooke van Velden has rightly been criticised over her claim that the Employment Relations Authority members believed “money grows on trees”.

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