Barbara Edmonds

Candidate for Kenepuru
Currently serving: MP for Mana, Parliament of New Zealand Labour
Party Labour
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Barbara Edmonds’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 4 races — 2 elected 2 not elected

2023 NZ General Election • October 14, 2023 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Ballot name: EDMONDS, Barbara
    Final Not elected
  • MP for Mana
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Ballot name: EDMONDS, Barbara
    Final Elected
    Vote share • 49.1%
    20,198 votes
2020 NZ General Election • October 17, 2020 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Ballot name: EDMONDS, Barbara
    Final Not elected
  • MP for Mana
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Ballot name: EDMONDS, Barbara
    Final Elected
    Vote share • 62.0%
    26,122 votes
Offices held
  • MP for Mana
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour
    Oct 2020 – present
In the News
Labour leans in to economic nationalism
Waikato Times — October 25, 2025

After her first big policy announcement as Labour’s finance spokesperson, Barbara Edmonds has shared details of another.

Labour lean in to economic nationalism
The Post — October 25, 2025

After her first big policy announcement as Labour’s finance spokesperson, Barbara Edmonds has shared details of another.

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.

KiwiSaver is ‘unfinished business,’ says Labour’s Barbara Edmonds.
The Post — September 11, 2025

Labour hasn’t released details yet of the KiwiSaver policies it will take to the next election, but is clear that it wouldn’t change the age of eligibility for NZ Super.

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