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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
More action, less haka: Peeni Henare’s race for redemption
The Post — August 3, 2025

For Labour’s Peeni Henare, it would be a redemptive tale - as well as a chance to get Labour back on track for the 2026 election.

Georgie Dansey waits in the wings as Peeni Henare battles it out for Tāmaki Makaurau
Te Ao Māori News — July 23, 2025

If Tāmaki Makaurau flips Labour in the upcoming by-election, Georgie Dansey, next on Labour’s party list, would enter Parliament as the party’s new wahine Māori MP.

Tāmaki Makaurau by-election candidate Peeni Henare: I stand by my record
Stuff — July 15, 2025

Labour’s Peeni Henare is confident his previous stint as the MP for Tāmaki Makaurau will stand him in good stead with voters.

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