Winston Peters
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Winston Peters’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 — 4 elected 1 not elected
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List MPParliament of New ZealandAffiliation: New Zealand First PartyFinal Elected
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List MPParliament of New ZealandAffiliation: New Zealand First PartyFinal Elected
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List MPParliament of New ZealandAffiliation: New Zealand First PartyFinal Elected
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MP for NorthlandParliament of New ZealandAffiliation: New Zealand First PartyFinal Not elected
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List MPParliament of New ZealandAffiliation: New Zealand First PartyFinal Elected
In the News
Winston Peters replaces Trevor Mallard as ambassador to Dublin
The Post — August 19, 2025Mallard, a former Speaker, has been ambassador to Ireland since 2023.
The prime minister we almost had: Grant Robertson’s memoir, reviewed
The Spinoff — August 19, 2025Henry Cooke reviews Anything Could Happen by former deputy prime minister Grant Robertson.
How a conspiracy poster landed a job at the heart of government
The Post — August 17, 2025A NZ First staffer who attended the Parliament occupation is still sharing conspiracy theories and far-right content while working in the office of Winston Peters.
Minister for Rail Winston Peters on the $671m scrapped ferry fiasco
RNZ New Zealand Headlines — August 15, 2025Labour's Chris Hipkins says it's somewhat ironic that Peters, who signed off on the iReX ferry project, was blaming other people.
$222 million paid to shipyard for canned Interislander replacements
Stuff — August 15, 2025The Government has paid $144 million to cancel a deal it had with Hyundai to build two new Interislander ferries. That’s on top of $78m already paid to the shipyard. The sum of KiwiRail’s settlement with the Hyundai Mipo Dockyard was revealed on Friday, through a joint statement from Rail Minister Winston Peters and Finance Minister Nicola Willis. As part of its iRex project, which Willis cancelled when the Government came to power, KiwiRail had ordered two new rail-enabled ferries. It had agreed to buy the ships for $551m. Peters said the $144m settlement was reasonable - and he noted it was less than what Labour had speculated it would cost to break the contract.
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