Barbara Edmonds

Candidate for Kenepuru
Currently serving: MP for Mana, Parliament of New Zealand Labour
Party Labour
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Note: This database contains data from the 2023, 2022 and 2017 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
    Final Not elected
  • MP for Mana
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Final Elected
2020 NZ General Election • October 17, 2020 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Final Not elected
  • MP for Mana
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Final Elected
Offices held
  • MP for Mana
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour
    Oct 2020 – present
In the News
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.

Should we fret about public debt?
The Spinoff — August 28, 2025

Depending on who you talk to, New Zealand is either drowning in debt or starving the country of the investment it needs because of a self-righteous fixation on driving debt down. Here’s an attempt to get to the bottom of it.

Reserve Bank independence under spotlight as PM weighs in
The Spinoff — August 26, 2025

Luxon’s comments about the OCR have stirred debate over political influence, just as the Reserve Bank begins weighing whether to relax rules that the government opposes.

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