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Peeni Henare

Candidate for Tāmaki Makaurau
Currently serving: List MP, Parliament of New Zealand Labour
Party Labour
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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

2025 Tāmaki Makaurau Byelection • September 6, 2025 General
  • MP for Tāmaki Makaurau
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour
    Final Not elected
    Vote share • 32.3%
    3,429 votes
2023 NZ General Election • October 14, 2023 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Ballot name: HENARE, Peeni
    Source
    Final Elected
  • MP for Tāmaki Makaurau
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Ballot name: HENARE, Peeni
    Source Booth results
    Final Not elected
    Vote share • 39.9%
    10,026 votes
2020 NZ General Election • October 17, 2020 General
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Ballot name: HENARE, Peeni
    Source
    Final Not elected
  • MP for Tāmaki Makaurau
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Ballot name: HENARE, Peeni
    Source
    Final Elected
    Vote share • 41.0%
    10,256 votes
2017 NZ General Election • September 23, 2017 General
  • MP for Tāmaki Makaurau
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Ballot name: HENARE, Peeni
    Source
    Final Elected
2014 NZ General Election • September 20, 2014 General
  • MP for Tāmaki Makaurau
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour Party
    Source
    Final Elected
Offices held
  • List MP
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour
    Oct 2023 – present
  • MP for Tāmaki Makaurau
    Parliament of New Zealand
    Affiliation: Labour
    Sep 2014 – Oct 2023
In the News
Peeni Henare and Winston Peters just a couple of Northland boys Hipkins says, dismissing coalition talks
Stuff — December 2, 2025

Chris Hipkins says he told Peeni Henare that he wanted him to work with Winston Peters on foreign affairs issues.

One MP, One Pint: Karen Chhour on state care, self-care and being the sober driver
The Spinoff — November 26, 2025

The Act Party minister is happy to give you a lift home, but please try not to throw up in her car. Act’s Karen Chhour is the kind of person you could imagine yourself drinking with in someone’s garage, spinning yarns about life in the state system over the low hum of a beer fridge.

Is it time for a second Māori political party to enter the fray?
The Spinoff — November 7, 2025

Hone Harawira walked away from Te Pāti Māori over a decade ago. Now, another Te Tai Tokerau MP looks set to do the same.

One MP, One Pint: Arena Williams, when did you get hot?
The Spinoff — October 23, 2025

Labour MP Arena Williams is one of few people who can dissect the works of Geoffrey Palmer and Sabrina Carpenter in the same breath. Arena Williams’ whakapapa is Ngāti Labour. Her staunch Labour-loving great-grans were able to spend money on Williams’ father, Sir Haare Williams’ education (he once vied for a Labour nomination in 1992) thanks to Michael Joseph Savage’s extension to the old age pension for Māori.

An incomplete timeline of the Kapa-Kingi/Te Pāti Māori allegations
The Spinoff — October 14, 2025

Te Pāti Māori has responded to claims of bullying with its own allegations against MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi and her son, Eru. Here’s what we know.

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