Chris Hipkins
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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 & 2022 local government elections and is gradually being backfilled with other election data.
Contested 8 races — 4 elected 4 not elected
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Final Not elected
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Final ElectedVote share • 54.2%22,344 votes
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Final Not elected
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Final ElectedVote share • 68.6%29,217 votes
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Final Not elected
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Final ElectedVote share • 56.0%21,725 votes
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Final Not elected
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Final ElectedVote share • 53.0%19,286 votes
Offices held
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MP for RimutakaParliament of New ZealandAffiliation: LabourOct 2020 – present
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MP for RimutakaParliament of New ZealandAffiliation: LabourNov 2008 – Oct 2020
In the News
If Labour wants the Māori seats back, it needs to win over a new generation
The Spinoff — February 17, 2026A digitally fluent, politically literate Māori generation is reshaping power in real time – and Labour must decide whether it can keep up. If you’re like me and anticipating the next election, you might also be asking who is truly fit to lead Māori now. I sit on the cusp of the millennial and gen Z generations – young enough to feel the energy of what’s shifting – but old enough to recognise what is no longer working.
Support for major parties slumps in latest poll
Otago Daily Times — February 16, 2026Labour leader Chris Hipkins (L) and National leader Christopher Luxon. Photo: RNZ Support for both major parties has dipped - while New Zealand First is up on double digits - in the latest 1News Verian poll.
Hipkins: Luxon being ‘cavalier’ with NZ’s international reputation
The Post — February 16, 2026Chris Hipkins says he won’t play ‘game of chicken’ with NZ’s reputation over India FTA but needs proper response from Government.
Migrant workers must be protected: Hipkins
Otago Daily Times — February 15, 2026Labour leader Chris Hipkins. Photo: RNZ By Lillian Hanly of RNZ National must ensure stronger protections for migrant workers in the Free Trade Agreement with India, before it agrees to it, Labour says.
Labour slams timing of Government-ordered review of RBNZ Covid policies
The Post — February 11, 2026Chris Hipkins called the review into NZ’s pandemic monetary policy response an “exercise in cynical political manipulation”, with the results due in the run-up to the election.
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