Stuart Nash

Party NZ First
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Stuart Nash’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 5 races — 3 elected 2 not elected

2020 NZ General Election • October 17, 2020 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Ballot name: NASH, Stuart
    Final Not elected
  • MP for Napier
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Ballot name: NASH, Stuart
    Final Elected
    Vote share • 52.0%
    21,325 votes
2017 NZ General Election • September 23, 2017 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Ballot name: NASH, Stuart
    Final Not elected
  • MP for Napier
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Ballot name: NASH, Stuart
    Final Elected
2014 NZ General Election • September 20, 2014 General
  • MP for Napier
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Final Elected
Offices held
  • MP for Napier
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour
    Sep 2014 – Oct 2023
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour
    Nov 2008 – Nov 2011
In the News
Gone By Lunchtime: Te Pāti Māori wrenches defeat from the jaws of victory
The Spinoff — September 19, 2025

Don’t post. Don’t do pub talk. And don’t declare it the year of growth if Donald Trump is the president. Celebrations for a big and bodacious Oriini Kaipara byelection victory were shortlived for Te Pāti Māori thanks to Tākuta Ferris’s decision to double down on a social media post aghast at a multicultural group of Labour supporters for Peeni Henare on the campaign trail.

‘A distraction’: Stuart Nash dumped from US trade trip after crude comments
NZ Herald — September 18, 2025

Nash had already quit two other roles before apologising publicly on LinkedIn.

The secret diary of .. Stuart Nash
Newsroom — September 13, 2025

A cowboy adventure starring high plains grifter Stuart Nash The post The secret diary of .. Stuart Nash appeared first on Newsroom .

Employer may have fired Stuart Nash if he hadn’t resigned after comments about women
NZ Herald — September 11, 2025

Employment law expert says companies can act on conduct outside of work.

Stuart Nash resigns from Taxpayers’ Union board following crude comments
The Post — September 11, 2025

It comes on the same day he reportedly resigned from his role at recruitment firm Robert Walters.

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