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Winston Peters

Party NZ First
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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

2023 NZ General Election • October 14, 2023 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: New Zealand First Party
    Ballot name: PETERS, Winston
    Source
    Final Elected
2020 NZ General Election • October 17, 2020 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: New Zealand First Party
    Ballot name: PETERS, Winston
    Source
    Final Elected
2017 NZ General Election • September 23, 2017 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: New Zealand First Party
    Ballot name: PETERS, Winston
    Source
    Final Elected
  • MP for Northland
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: New Zealand First Party
    Ballot name: PETERS, Winston
    Source
    Final Not elected
2014 NZ General Election • September 20, 2014 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: New Zealand First Party
    Ballot name: PETERS, Winston
    Source
    Final Elected
In the News
Does Winston Peters want HMNZS Aotearoa re-named?
Stuff — August 20, 2025

He makes no secret of his disdain for ‘Aotearoa’ being used instead of or alongside ‘New Zealand’. So what does the NZ First leader think of the name of the Navy’s biggest ship?

Winston Peters apologises – sort of – for attack on Greens
Stuff — August 19, 2025

“That remark was in the heat of a noisy heckling period and I misread my notes,” the foreign minister says after levelling an allegation of fraud more than four months ago.

David Seymour, Winston Peters distance themselves from Christopher Luxon’s Benjamin Netanyahu ‘lost the plot’ remarks
NZ Herald — August 19, 2025

'It's better just to keep your thoughts to yourself.'

Winston Peters replaces Trevor Mallard as ambassador to Dublin
The Post — August 19, 2025

Mallard, 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, 2025

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

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