- Jim Anderton
James Patrick Anderton, (born 21 January 1938) almost always referred to as Jim Anderton, is leader of the Progressive Party, a political party in the New Zealand Parliament. He has served in Parliament since 1984. He served as Deputy Prime Minister from 1999 to 2002.
- Michael Cullen
Dr Michael John Cullen (born 5 February 1945, London) is a New Zealand politician. Cullen currently serves as Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand, Minister of Finance, Minister of Tertiary Education, Attorney-General and Leader of the House. He is deputy leader of the New Zealand Labour Party, currently the largest party in Parliament.
- Peter Dunne
Peter Dunne (born 17 March 1954), a New Zealand politician and Member of Parliament, leads the United Future political party. He has served as a Cabinet minister in governments dominated by the centre-left Labour Party as well as by the centre-right National Party. He currently holds the posts of Minister of Revenue and Associate Minister of Health, outside of cabinet.
- David Lange
David Russell Lange CH, ONZ (4 August 1942 — 13 August, 2005), served as Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1984 to 1989. He headed New Zealand's fourth Labour Government, one of the most reforming administrations in his country's history, but one which did not always conform to traditional expectations of a social-democrat party. He had a reputation for cutting wit and eloquence.
- Don Brash
Donald Thomas Brash was born to Alan Brash, a Presbyterian minister and son of prominent lay leader Thomas Brash, and Eljean Brash (nee Hill), in Wanganui on September 24, 1940. Brash moved with his family to Christchurch at the age of six. There he was educated at Cashmere Primary School and Christchurch Boys' High School. He then studied at the University of Canterbury where he graduated in economics, history and political science.
- Trevor Mallard
Trevor Colin Mallard (born 17 June 1954) is a New Zealand politician. He is currently a member of Cabinet, the Minister of Economic Development, the Minister of Industry and Regional Development, the Minister of State Owned Enterprises, the Minister of Sport and Recreation and Minister for the Rugby World Cup. He is also the associate Minister of Finance.
- Peter Fraser
Peter Fraser (1884 - 1950) served as Prime Minister of New Zealand from 27 March 1940 until 13 December 1949. He held the office through most of the Second World War. Historians see him as a major figure in the history of the New Zealand Labour Party; he served longer than any other New Zealand Labour Prime Minister to date.
- Roger Douglas
Sir Roger Douglas is a former New Zealand politician and senior Cabinet minister, best known for his leading role in the radical economic restructuring undertaken by the New Zealand Labour Party government in the 1980s. He later founded the Association of Consumers and Taxpayers (the forerunner of the ACT New Zealand party) with Derek Quigley in 1994.
- Clayton Cosgrove
Clayton James Cosgrove (born 31 October 1969, Nelson, New Zealand) is a New Zealand politician. He is a member of the Labour Party.
- Mike Williams
Mike Williams is the current serving President of the New Zealand Labour Party.
- Norman Kirk
Norman Eric Kirk (6 January 1923 - 31 August 1974), was Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1972 until his sudden death in 1974. He led the Parliamentary wing of the New Zealand Labour Party from 1965 to 1974. Kirk had a reputation as the most formidable debater of his time.
- Michael Joseph Savage
Michael Joseph Savage was a New Zealand politician and the first Labour Prime Minister of New Zealand. He is regarded as one of New Zealand's greatest leaders.
- Mike Moore
Michael Kenneth Moore ONZ (born 28 January 1949) is a politician from New Zealand who has served both as Prime Minister of New Zealand and Director-General of the World Trade Organization.
- Walter Nash
Sir Walter Nash, GCMG, CH (12 February 1882-4 June 1968) served as Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1957 to 1960 and was also highly influential in his role as Minister of Finance. He is noted for his long period of service, having been associated with the Labour Party since its creation. Many also associate him with the gradual shift of the Labour Party away from its original socialism.
- Phil Goff
Philip Bruce Goff (born 22 June, 1953), generally known as Phil Goff, is the current Minister of Defence of New Zealand. He also serves as Minister of Trade, Disarmament and Minister of Pacific Island Affairs.
- Geoffrey Palmer
Sir Geoffrey Winston Russell Palmer, KCMG, AC (born 21 April 1942), served as Prime Minister of New Zealand from August 1989 until September 1990, leading the Labour Party. He was responsible for considerable reforms of the country's legal and constitutional framework, such as the creation of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act and the State Sector Act.
- Margaret Wilson
Margaret Wilson (born 20 May 1947), a New Zealand politician, currently serves as Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives. She is a member of the Labour Party.
- Annette King
Annette Faye King (born 13 September 1947) is a New Zealand politician. She is a member of the governing Labour Party, and currently serves in Cabinet as Minister of Police, Minister of Food Safety, Minister of Transport and Minister of State Services. King was born in Murchison, a town in the West Coast region of the South Island. After receiving primary and secondary education in Murchison, she attended the University of Waikato and gained a BA degree.
- Ruth Dyson
Ruth Suzanne Dyson (born 11 August 1957) is a New Zealand politician. She is a member of the Labour Party. Dyson was born in Lower Hutt. Her father served in the New Zealand Army, and so Dyson's family frequently moved around the country. Dyson joined the Labour Party in Westport in 1979, and worked as a campaign organiser for Labour MP Kerry Burke in the 1981 and 1984 elections.
- Pete Hodgson
Peter Colin Hodgson (1950 -) is a New Zealand politician. He is a member of the Labour Party. Hodgson was born in Whangarei, and received a Bachelor's degree in veterinary science from Massey University. He was worked as a veterinarian, a high school teacher, and a fruit and vegetable retailer. Hodgson joined the Labour Party in 1976, and shortly afterwards became the manager for Stan Rodger's successful campaign in the Dunedin North seat.
- David Cunliffe
David Richard Cunliffe is a New Zealand politician. He is a member of the Labour Party, and the sitting member of parliament for New Lynn, West Auckland.
- David Parker
David William Parker (born 1960), a New Zealand politician, worked as a litigation partner in the law firm Anderson Lloyd Caudwell, and later as a businessman. Parker joined the Labour Party, and served as Attorney-General and Minister of Transport and Energy from 2005 until March 2006. Parker first gained election to Parliament in the 2002 elections, winning an upset victory over National's Gavan Herlihy in the Otago seat.
- Tariana Turia
Tariana Turia is a New Zealand politician. She gained considerable prominence during the foreshore and seabed controversy, and eventually broke with her party as a result. She resigned from parliament, and successfully contested a by-election in her former electorate as a candidate of the newly-formed Māori Party.
- Lianne Dalziel
Lianne Audrey Dalziel (In New Zealand, the "z" in her surname is not a silent letter) (born 7 June 1960) is a member of the New Zealand Parliament and Minister of Commerce, Small Business and Women's Affairs. She resigned from Cabinet on 20 February 2004 after apparently lying about a leak of documents to the media, but was reinstated as a Minister following Labour's return to office after the 2005 elections.
- Parekura Horomia
Parekura Tureia Horomia (9 November 1950 -) is a New Zealand politician. He is a member of the Labour Party. Horomia was born in Tolaga Bay of Ngati Porou, Te Aitanga Hauiti, Ngati Kahungunu and Ngai Tahu descent. He initially worked as a manual labourer and then as a printer in the newspaper industry. Later, Horomia became involved in the Department of Labour's work schemes on the East Coast and was gradually appointed to supervisory positions in the programme.
- Maryan Street
Maryan Street (1955 -) is a Member of the New Zealand Parliament (MP) for the New Zealand Labour Party. In the 2005 elections, she became the first out lesbian woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament. Street was born and raised in New Plymouth, and studied at Victoria University of Wellington. She joined the Labour Party in 1984, and was president of the Labour Party organisation from 1994 until 1996.
- Steve Maharey
Steven (Steve) Maharey (born 3 February, 1953) serves as New Zealand's Minister of Education, Minister of Broadcasting, Minister of Research, Science and Technology, Minister for Crown Research Institutes and Minister responsible for the Education Review Office. In recent times he has also been Minister of Social Development and Employment, Minister of Housing, and Minister of Youth Affairs. He is a member of the governing Labour Party.
- Rick Barker
Richard John Barker (27 October 1951 -) is a New Zealand politician. He is a member of the Labour Party, and currently serves as a middle-ranking cabinet minister at number 13 on the party list. Barker was born in the town of Greymouth, on New Zealand's West Coast. He attended Greymouth High School and then Otago University. After working as a shop assistant, bartender, storeworker, farmhand, driver, factory worker, and quarrier, he became involved in the trade unions, …
- Harry Duynhoven
Harry James Duynhoven is a New Zealand politician. He is a member of the Labour Party. Duynhoven was born in New Plymouth. He left school at age sixteen to become an electrician, and eventually became technical teacher at the collegiate and polytechnic level. Duynhoven entered Parliament in the 1987 elections, winning the New Plymouth seat from incumbent National Party MP Tony Friedlander. In the 1990 elections, he lost the seat to National's John Armstrong, …
- David Benson-Pope
David Henry Benson-Pope (born 1950) is a New Zealand politician. He is a member of the Labour Party, and is currently a cabinet minister. Benson-Pope was born in Dunedin and educated at the University of Otago and at the Christchurch College of Education. While studying education, he served as President of the Students' Association at the college, and National President of the Student Teachers' Association of New Zealand.
- Shane Jones
Shane Jones is a New Zealand politician. He stood in the 2005 elections for the Labour Party, being ranked twenty-seventh on its party list. This is the highest position given by Labour to someone who was not already a member of Parliament. He took his seat in the new parliament after the Labour Party won 50 seats in New Zealand's 120 seat parliament. Jones held a number of senior roles in the public sector, …
- Pita Sharples
Dr. Pita Russell Sharples CBE (born 20 July 1941), a Māori academic and politician, currently co-leads the Māori Party, he currently is the member for Tamaki Makaurau(Auckland City) in New Zealand's Parliament. Sharples, of the Ngati Kahungunu iwi, was born in Waipawa, a town in Hawke's Bay. He received his early education at Waipukurau District High School and then at Te Aute College. He then attended the University of Auckland, studying education.
- Damien O'Connor
Damien Peter O'Connor is a New Zealand politician. He is a member of the Labour Party. He was first elected to Parliament in the 1993 elections, recapturing the West Coast seat after the upset victory of National's Margaret Moir in the 1990 elections. He retained his seat in the 1993 elections, and then won the reconfigured West Coast-Tasman seat in the 1996 elections. He has remained MP for that electorate since then.
- Darren Hughes
Darren Colyn Hughes (1978 -) is a New Zealand politician. He is the Labour Party member for the Otaki electorate. After serving as Parliamentary Secretary to Labour MP Judy Keall, he successfully contested Keall's Otaki seat upon her retirement at the 2002 elections and held the seat at the 2005 election. He currently serves as the Junior Government Whip and is widely tipped for higher honours. Hughes is currently New Zealand's youngest MP.
- Ron Mark
Major Ron Stanley Mark is a New Zealand politician. He was born on 29 January 1954. Formerly married to Gail Mark, nee Berry, he has five children and seven grandchilden (mokopuna). He is a member of the New Zealand First party. He has been a list MP since the 1996 elections, and during the coalition between New Zealand First and the National Party, he was the government's Senior Whip.
- Judith Tizard
Judith Tizard (Born 3 January 1956) is a New Zealand politician. She is a member of the Labour Party.
- Harry Holland
Henry Edmund (Harry) Holland was a New Zealand politician and unionist. He was the first leader of the New Zealand Labour Party.
- Marian Hobbs
Marian Leslie Hobbs (18 December 1947 -) is a New Zealand politician and Labour MP for the Wellington Central electorate. Before entering politics, Hobbs worked as a teacher and as a school principal. She is also a former Communist and helped to establish the Chippenham commune in Christchurch. She is a practising Quaker
- Ross Robertson
Harold Valentine Ross Robertson (known as HV Ross Robertson) (1949 -) is a New Zealand politician, and currently one of two Assistant Speakers in the New Zealand House of Representatives. He is a member of the Labour Party. He was first elected to Parliament in the 1987 elections, representing Papatoetoe. Since the 1996 elections, when the Papatoetoe seat was abolished, Robertson has represented the seat of Manukau East.
- Nanaia Mahuta
Nanaia Cybelle Mahuta is a New Zealand politician and a member of the Labour Party. She has strong links to the Te Kingitanga (Māori King Movement), being the daughter of Robert Mahuta, who was the adopted son of King Korokī and the elder brother of Māori Queen Te Atairangikaahu.