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
Chris Hipkins isn't really doing much, but there's a reason for that
Stuff — September 26, 2025With no new policies of their own to talk about, are Labour MPs just keeping their heads down, staying the course and hoping for the Coalition Government to implode?
Mood of the Boardroom: Labour’s front bench scores poorly in business leaders’ survey
NZ Herald — September 24, 2025Chris Hipkins scores just 2.28/5, falling well behind his own MPs.
Woke Wayne takes on the grey masses
The Spinoff — September 22, 2025Auckland mayor Wayne Brown went to a mayoral debate filled with reliable Wayne Brown voters, and proceeded to annoy as many of them as he could. Wayne Brown kicked off the Grey Power North Shore mayoral debate with an ingratiating joke. “It’s good to be back again talking to a demographic in which I fit quite nicely,” he said, as he looked over the gold-card-toting crowd at the Barfoot & Thompson Netball Centre. Auckland’s mayor spent the next 30 minutes pissing off as many of his peers as possible.
Labour leader Chris Hipkins says ‘whole Government should resign’ over GDP decline
NZ Herald — September 19, 2025Chris Hipkins wouldn't call for Nicola Willis' resignation specifically.
Te Pāti Māori’s no good, very bad, hōhā couple of weeks
The Spinoff — September 18, 2025The unfortunate mix of a rogue MP, an eyebrow-raising role switch, rumbles among the old guard and stand-offs with the media means Te Pāti Māori will have to do some soul-searching if they want to be kīngi-makers at next year’s election.
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