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Grant Robertson

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Grant Robertson’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 7 races — 4 elected 3 not elected

2023 NZ General Election • October 14, 2023 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Ballot name: ROBERTSON, Grant
    Final Elected
2020 NZ General Election • October 17, 2020 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Ballot name: ROBERTSON, Grant
    Final Not elected
  • MP for Wellington Central
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Ballot name: ROBERTSON, Grant
    Final Elected
    Vote share • 57.7%
    27,366 votes
2017 NZ General Election • September 23, 2017 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Ballot name: ROBERTSON, Grant
    Final Not elected
  • MP for Wellington Central
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Ballot name: ROBERTSON, Grant
    Final Elected
2014 NZ General Election • September 20, 2014 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Ballot name: Robertson
    Final Not elected
  • MP for Wellington Central
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Final Elected
Offices held
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour
    Oct 2023 – Mar 2024
  • MP for Wellington Central
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour
    Nov 2008 – Oct 2023
In the News
Grant Robertson, the rock star of Queenstown
Newsroom — November 3, 2025

Steve Braunias reports on this weekend’s Queenstown Writers Festival The post Grant Robertson, the rock star of Queenstown appeared first on Newsroom .

Windbag: Key takeaways from Wellington’s red wave local election
The Spinoff — October 13, 2025

Andrew Little won the largest mayoral victory in 142 years, and Labour and the Greens grew their governing majority at the council table.

Should we fret about public debt?
The Spinoff — August 28, 2025

Depending on who you talk to, New Zealand is either drowning in debt or starving the country of the investment it needs because of a self-righteous fixation on driving debt down. Here’s an attempt to get to the bottom of it.

Grant Robertson stands by Covid era spending in wake of Treasury 'rewriting history'
RNZ — August 19, 2025

The former Finance Minister is also rejecting the suggestion the last Labour government did not have enough real-world experience to run the country.

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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