Karen Chhour

Currently serving: List MP, Parliament of New Zealand ACT
Party ACT
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Karen Chhour’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: ACT New Zealand
    Ballot name: CHHOUR, Karen
    Final Elected
  • MP for Upper Harbour
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: ACT New Zealand
    Ballot name: CHHOUR, Karen
    Final Not elected
    Vote share • 5.8%
    2,313 votes
2020 NZ General Election • October 17, 2020 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: ACT New Zealand
    Ballot name: CHHOUR, Karen
    Final Elected
  • MP for Upper Harbour
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: ACT New Zealand
    Ballot name: CHHOUR, Karen
    Final Not elected
    Vote share • 4.4%
    1,712 votes
Offices held
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: ACT
    Oct 2020 – present
In the News
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.

One MP, One Pint: A visit to Wellington’s ‘last true public bar’ with Greg O’Connor
The Spinoff — November 19, 2025

Labour’s Greg O’Connor knows this Newlands bar like the back of his hand. “Here comes trouble,” is how the barmaid greets Labour MP Greg O’Connor upon entering the Newlands Arms, a pub the 67-year-old has been haunting since the 1970s.

Minister’s shortlived celebration about one statistic
Stuff — October 24, 2025

Children’s Minister Karen Chhour has acknowledged her initial celebration of a reduction of harm in state care residences did not provide the full picture.

Te Oranga facility that closed after child was put in headlock by staff to reopen
RNZ — October 10, 2025

Minister for Children Karen Chhour said admissions toTe Oranga were paused due to staffing issues and chronic underinvestment in the care of vulnerable children.

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