Tākuta Ferris

Candidate for Te Tai Tonga
Currently serving: MP for Te Tai Tonga, Parliament of New Zealand Te Pāti Māori
Party Te Pāti Māori
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Tākuta Ferris’s Elections & Candidacies

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 — 1 elected 3 not elected

2023 NZ General Election • October 14, 2023 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Te Pāti Māori
    Final Not elected
  • MP for Te Tai Tonga
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Te Pāti Māori
    Final Elected
2020 NZ General Election • October 17, 2020 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Māori Party
    Final Not elected
  • MP for Te Tai Tonga
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Māori Party
    Final Not elected
Offices held
  • MP for Te Tai Tonga
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Te Pāti Māori
    Oct 2023 – present
In the News
Labour’s Chris Hipkins won’t call Te Pāti Māori MP Tākuta Ferris’ Instagram post ‘racist’, says those labels aren’t helpful
NZ Herald — September 9, 2025

That's despite him saying in 2023 that racism should be called out.

Electoral Commission reviewing Tākuta Ferris social media post and party billboards in byelection
NZ Herald — September 7, 2025

Oriini Kaipara won the Tāmaki Makaurau seat last night, defeating Labour's Peeni Henare.

Asians, Black and Pākehā ‘campaigning to take a Māori seat from Māori’ - Labour hits out at TMP social post
Stuff — September 4, 2025

Labour has condemned a social media post by Te Pāti Māori MP Tākuta Ferris, after he questioned why visible non-Māori were helping Labour candidate Peeni Henare campaign in the Tāmaki Makaurau by-election.

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