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

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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 MP Barbara Edmonds and business executive Dame Therese Walsh dance to Abba at Bold Steps leadership conference
NZ Herald — December 4, 2025

Christopher Luxon attended after opening New Zealand's first Ikea today.

Barbara Edmonds says National ‘planning to sell off public assets’ after Treasury confirms it is halfway through asset review
NZ Herald — December 3, 2025

Labour and the Greens fear the Government is softening the public for privatisations

Labour rubs hands together at prospect of power and focused spending
Newsroom — November 29, 2025

Labour's finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds promises public investment for the future, but warns she won't be able to say 'yes' to everything The post Labour rubs hands together at prospect of power and focused spending appeared first on Newsroom .

One MP, One Pint: Karen Chhour on state care, self-care and being the sober driver
The Spinoff — November 26, 2025

The Act Party minister is happy to give you a lift home, but please try not to throw up in her car. Act’s Karen Chhour is the kind of person you could imagine yourself drinking with in someone’s garage, spinning yarns about life in the state system over the low hum of a beer fridge.

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.

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