Jacinda Ardern

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Jacinda Ardern’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 7 races — 4 elected 3 not elected

2020 NZ General Election • October 17, 2020 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Ballot name: ARDERN, Jacinda
    Final Not elected
  • MP for Mt Albert
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Ballot name: ARDERN, Jacinda
    Final Elected
    Vote share • 71.6%
    29,238 votes
2017 NZ General Election • September 23, 2017 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Ballot name: ARDERN, Jacinda
    Final Not elected
  • MP for Mt Albert
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Ballot name: ARDERN, Jacinda
    Final Elected
2017 Mt Albert Byelection • February 25, 2017 General
  • MP for Mt Albert
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Final Elected
    Vote share • 77.4%
    10,495 votes
2014 NZ General Election • September 20, 2014 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Ballot name: ARDERN, Jacinda
    Final Elected
  • MP for Auckland Central
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Final Not elected
Offices held
  • MP for Mt Albert
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour
    Feb 2017 – Apr 2023
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour
    Nov 2008 – Feb 2017
In the News
Women’s Rugby World Cup: Dame Jacinda Ardern pays surprise visit to Black Ferns ahead of quarter-final
NZ Herald — September 10, 2025

'I felt like I was going to crush her if I hugged her too hard,' a Black Ferns star joked.

Jacinda Ardern: ‘I made mistakes - but I was human’
Stuff — September 8, 2025

The former Prime Minister reflects on the pressures of leading through Covid, crises and criticism - and why empathy still matters in politics.

Luxon hypes AWS opening as critics call investment old news
The Spinoff — September 3, 2025

Amazon is promising its data centre investment will bring billions in benefits and hundreds of jobs. But sceptics say the tech giant’s claims don’t completely hold up

A list of other things from 2021 that Christopher Luxon could reannounce
The Spinoff — September 2, 2025

After ‘revealing’ a $7.5b Amazon deal that was confirmed four years ago, what else could the prime minister dust off from the past? “Prime minister Christopher Luxon has revealed that one of the world’s biggest corporations, Amazon, is investing $7.5 billion in New Zealand,” Garth Bray announced on Herald Now this morning, while the NZ Herald website blared a red breaking news banner sharing the same news.

The prime minister we almost had: Grant Robertson’s memoir, reviewed
The Spinoff — August 19, 2025

Henry Cooke reviews Anything Could Happen by former deputy prime minister Grant Robertson.

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