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Chris Hipkins

Candidate for Remutaka
Currently serving: MP for Rimutaka, Parliament of New Zealand Labour
Party Labour
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Chris Hipkins’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 8 races — 4 elected 4 not elected

2023 NZ General Election • October 14, 2023 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Ballot name: HIPKINS, Chris
    Source
    Final Not elected
  • MP for Remutaka
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Ballot name: HIPKINS, Chris
    Source Booth results
    Final Elected
    Vote share • 54.2%
    22,344 votes
2020 NZ General Election • October 17, 2020 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Ballot name: HIPKINS, Chris
    Source
    Final Not elected
  • MP for Remutaka
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Ballot name: HIPKINS, Chris
    Source
    Final Elected
    Vote share • 68.6%
    29,217 votes
2017 NZ General Election • September 23, 2017 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Ballot name: HIPKINS, Chris
    Source
    Final Not elected
  • MP for Rimutaka
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Ballot name: HIPKINS, Chris
    Source
    Final Elected
2014 NZ General Election • September 20, 2014 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Ballot name: Hipkins
    Source
    Final Not elected
  • MP for Rimutaka
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Source
    Final Elected
Offices held
  • MP for Rimutaka
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour
    Oct 2020 – present
  • MP for Rimutaka
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour
    Nov 2008 – Oct 2020
In the News
Year in Review: Chris Hipkins and a farmers’ capital gains tax on The Country
NZ Herald — January 3, 2026

The Country's August 14 edition was the second most listened to (and read about) in 2025.

Chris Hipkins on the book he didn’t write, and the inquiry he didn’t attend
The Post — December 20, 2025

The Labour leader looks back at a year of his party crawling its way to the front of the pack.

A late poll lift for Labour as parliament calls time for the year
The Spinoff — December 18, 2025

With National now eight points behind Labour, this wasn’t the send-off to 2025 the government was hoping for.

Labour extends lead on cost of living as voters focus on household pressures
The Post — December 18, 2025

New polling shows Chris Hipkins’ party is trusted over the National-led Government to manage household pressures, healthcare, welfare, housing, and environmental concerns.

Poll puts Labour well ahead of National
Otago Daily Times — December 17, 2025

Labour leader Chris Hipkins (L) is preferred prime minister on 45 percent, while National's Christopher Luxon is at 39 percent, according to the latest poll. Photo: RNZ Labour has an eight-point lead over National in the latest The Post/Freshwater Strategy poll, but neither the coalition nor the opposition has the numbers to govern.

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