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
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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