Andy Foster

Currently serving: List MP, Parliament of New Zealand NZ First
Party NZ First
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Andy Foster’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 6 races — 1 elected 5 not elected

2023 NZ General Election • October 14, 2023 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: New Zealand First Party
    Ballot name: FOSTER, Andy
    Final Not elected
  • MP for Mana
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: New Zealand First Party
    Ballot name: FOSTER, Andy
    Final Not elected
    Vote share • 4.5%
    1,848 votes
2022 NZ Local Government • October 8, 2022 Local
  • Mayor
    Wellington City Council
    Affiliation: Independent
    Final Not elected
    Vote share • 19.3%
    16,711 votes
2019 NZ Local Government • October 12, 2019 Local
  • Mayor
    Wellington City Council
    Affiliation: Independent
    Final Elected
    Vote share • 100.0%
    27,364 votes
2017 NZ General Election • September 23, 2017 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: New Zealand First Party
    Ballot name: FOSTER, Andy
    Final Not elected
  • MP for Wellington Central
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: New Zealand First Party
    Ballot name: FOSTER, Andy
    Final Not elected
Offices held
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: NZ First
    Oct 2023 – present
  • Mayor
    Wellington City Council
    Oct 2019 – Oct 2022
In the News
Andrew Little buddies up to the right
The Spinoff — November 25, 2025

In his first council meeting as Wellington mayor, Andrew Little gave a big promotion to controversial rival Ray Chung and opened a political rift between Labour and the Greens.

One MP, One Pint: A visit to Wellington’s ‘last true public bar’ with Greg O’Connor
The Spinoff — November 19, 2025

Labour’s Greg O’Connor knows this Newlands bar like the back of his hand. “Here comes trouble,” is how the barmaid greets Labour MP Greg O’Connor upon entering the Newlands Arms, a pub the 67-year-old has been haunting since the 1970s.

The brilliant performative politics of NZ First’s fake members’ bills
The Spinoff — November 6, 2025

NZ First MPs keep proposing laws they have no intention of passing, and the media falls for it every time.

Mayoralty schmayoralty: these ward races will decide Wellington’s future
The Spinoff — September 24, 2025

Barring a major upset, polling suggests Andrew Little will win the capital’s mayoral chains with relative ease. But the type of council he will lead is still up in the air. Andrew Little must be feeling pretty good right now. A recent Q+A Verian poll gave him a commanding lead in the race to be Wellington’s next mayor, with 58% of first-choice votes, way ahead of second-placed candidate Ray Chung on 16%.

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