- Taito Phillip Field
Taito Phillip Hans Field, a New Zealand politician, is currently the member of parliament (MP) for Mangere, and an independent in the New Zealand Parliament.
- 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.
- Janet Mackey
Janet Elsdon Mackey (June 14, 1953 -) is a New Zealand politician. She is a member of the Labour Party. She was first elected to Parliament in the 1993 elections, winning the seat of Gisborne. In the 1996 elections, she won the newly created seat of Mahia, and in the 1999 elections and 2002 elections, she won the seat of East Coast. In 2003, she was joined in Parliament by her daughter, Moana Mackey. She has announced her intent to retire at the 2005 elections.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ann Hartley
Margaret Ann Hartley (1942 -) is a New Zealand politician. She is a member of the Labour Party. She was first elected to Parliament in the 1999 elections, winning the seat of Northcote. She is currently the Assistant Speaker of the House. Hartley was previously the mayor of North Shore City, and before that, the mayor of Birkenhead (now a suburb of North Shore City). Before entering politics, she was a real estate agent. She was born in the town of Warkworth.
- Jonathan Hunt
Jonathan Hunt, ONZ, (born December 2, 1938) is a New Zealand politician, and currently New Zealand's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. He formerly served as Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives. He is a member of the Labour Party, and was until recently the longest serving MP in Parliament. Hunt is a member of the Order of New Zealand, New Zealand's highest civilian honour..
- 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.
- Chris Laidlaw
Christopher Robert Laidlaw (born November 16, 1943), Rhodes Scholar, All Black, diplomat, MP, talk radio host, author, is a 20th century New Zealand figure. Laidlaw attended Otago University from 1962 to 1966, after which he went overseas with the All Blacks. In 1969 Laidlaw took up his Rhodes Scholarship at Merton College, Oxford. In 1972, Laidlaw joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and served as Assistant to Commonwealth Secretary-General Sonny Ramphal.
- Judith Tizard
Judith Tizard (Born 3 January 1956) is a New Zealand politician. She is a member of the 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
- Kerry Burke
Sir Thomas Kerry Burke (born March 24 1942) served as Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives from 1987 to 1990. He was a member of the Labour Party, and served throughout the second term of the Fourth Labour Government. Burke was born in Christchurch, New Zealand. In 1960, he began three years of study at the University of Canterbury, after which he studied for a year at the Christchurch College of Education.
- Helen Clark
Helen Elizabeth Clark (born February 26, 1950) became Prime Minister of New Zealand in December 1999 and entered her third successive term in that office in 2005. As of 2006, she is ranked by "Forbes" magazine as the 20th most powerful woman in the world.
- Moana Mackey
Moana Lynore Mackey (born 28 February 1974) is a New Zealand politician. She is a member of the governing Labour Party. Mackey entered Parliament on 29 July 2003, having been the next candidate on Labour's party list when Graham Kelly vacated his seat. She is the daughter of Janet Mackey, who until 2005 was also a Labour MP - the two were the first mother-daughter team in Parliament. In the elections that year, Janet Mackey retired from politics, …
- 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, …
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Luamanuvao Winnie Laban
Luamanuvao Winnie Laban (Born 1955) is a New Zealand politician. She is a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Labour Party representing the Mana electorate.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Mark Gosche
Mark James Gosche (2 December 1955) is a New Zealand politician. He is a member of the Labour Party. He was born in Auckland to Samoan parents, and has been active in New Zealand's Pacific Islander community. He was first elected to Parliament as a list MP in the 1996 elections, and has been MP for the Auckland seat of Maungakiekie since the 1999 elections. He has held a number of Cabinet posts, including Minister of Corrections, Minister of Housing, Minister of Transport, …
- Gerard Wall
Sir Gerard Aloysius Wall FRCS (24 January 1920 - 1992). Was Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives from 1985 to 1987. Born in Christchurch, New Zealand. He was educated at St Bede's College then Canterbury and Otago University graduating with an MBChB. After graduation he worked as a House Surgeon in Christchurch and as a General practitioner in Denniston on the West Coast. He married Uru Raupo Cameron in 1951.
- Mark Burton
Richard Mark Burton (known as Mark Burton) (born 16 January 1956) is a New Zealand politician. He is a member of the Labour Party, and currently serves as Minister of Justice; Minister of Local Government; Minister in Charge of Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations; Deputy Leader of the House; Minister Responsible for the Law Commission.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Chris Carter
Christopher Joseph Carter is a New Zealand politician and a member of Cabinet. He currently serves as Minister of Conservation, Minister of Housing, and Minister of Ethnic Affairs. He is the member of parliament for the Te Atatu electorate, where he was first elected in 1993. He did not win re-election in 1996, but won an expanded seat in 1999.
- Tim Barnett
Timothy Andrew Barnett is a member of the New Zealand Parliament for Christchurch Central since 1999. He was a British immigrant to New Zealand and was New Zealand's second openly gay politician. Born in Rugby, UK on 4 August 1958, he moved to New Zealand in 1991 with his partner. He was elected to Parliament as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Christchurch Central in 1996. He has been active in many community-based organisations in New Zealand, …
- 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.
- Fran Wilde
Fran Wilde QSO (1951-), is a New Zealand politician, and former Wellington Labour MP and 32nd Mayor of Wellington.
- 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.
- Lynne Pillay
Barbara Lynne Pillay is a New Zealand politician. She is a member of the Labour Party. She was first elected to Parliament in the 2002 elections, winning the Waitakere electorate. Her main rival was Alliance leader Laila Harré. Pillay had previously contested the safe National seat of Tamaki in the 1999 elections, and had missed out on election as a list MP by only one place. Before entering politics, she was a nurse, and had been active in the New Zealand Nurses Union.
- Paul Swain
Paul Swain (1951 -) is a New Zealand politician. He is a member of the Labour Party. He became the MP for the seat of Eastern Hutt in the 1990 elections, and has been the MP for Rimutaka since the 1996 elections. Swain has held a number of ministerial portfolios, including Minister of Commerce, Minister of Statistics, and Associate Minister of Finance. He is currently Minister of Immigration, Minister of Labour, Minister of Corrections, Minister for Information Technology, …