Electoral history of Jacinda Ardern

This is a summary of the electoral history of Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand (2017–2023), Leader of the Labour Party (2017–2023), a List MP (2008–17) and MP for Mount Albert (2017–2023).

2008 general election: Waikato^[1]
Notes:		Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	National	Y Lindsay Tisch		20,122	63.44		18,532	57.45
	Labour	Jacinda Ardern		7,272	22.93		7,280	22.57
	Green	Wendy Harper		1,484	4.68		1,271	3.94
	NZ First	Barbara Stewart		1,353	4.27		1,708	5.29
	ACT	Mark Davies		1,089	3.43		2,088	6.47
	Kiwi	James Ross		278	0.88		171	0.53
	Democrats	John Pemberton		122	0.38		40	0.12
	United Future						285	0.88
	Māori Party						235	0.73
	Bill and Ben						195	0.60
	Progressive						188	0.58
	Legalise Cannabis						123	0.38
	Family Party						87	0.27
	Alliance						25	0.08
	Libertarianz						15	0.05
	Workers Party						8	0.02
	Pacific						4	0.01
	RAM						3	0.01
	RONZ						1	0.003
Informal votes				245			107
Total valid votes				31,720			32,259
	National win new seat		Majority	12,850	40.51

2011 general election: Auckland Central^[2]
Notes:		Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	National	Y Nikki Kaye		15,038	45.39	+2.48	14,447	42.24	+2.15
	Labour	Jacinda Ardern		14,321	43.23	+4.69	8,590	25.11	–9.44
	Green	Denise Roche		2,903	8.76	–4.66	7,797	22.79	+7.33
	NZ First	Allen Davies		412	1.24	+1.24	1,403	4.10	+1.81
	Conservative	Stephen Greenfield		238	0.72	+0.72	280	0.82	+0.82
	ACT	David Seymour		149	0.45	–1.25	404	1.18	–2.95
	Human Rights	Anthony van den Heuval		68	0.21	+0.01
	Māori Party						562	1.64	+0.71
	Mana						237	0.69	+0.69
	Democrats						202	0.59	+0.56
	Legalise Cannabis						146	0.43	+0.14
	United Future						75	0.22	–0.46
	Libertarianz						53	0.15	+0.08
	Alliance						10	0.03	–0.002
Informal votes				352			164
Total valid votes				33,129			34,206
	National hold		Majority	717	2.16	–2.21

2014 general election: Auckland Central^[3]
Notes:		Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	National	Y Nikki Kaye		12,494	45.84	+0.44	12,652	44.93	+2.70
	Labour	Jacinda Ardern		11,894	43.63	+0.41	6,101	21.67	–3.44
	Green	Denise Roche		2,080	7.63	–1.13	6,242	22.17	–0.63
	Internet	Miriam Pierard		270	0.99	+0.99
	Conservative	Regan Monahan		258	0.95	+0.23	486	1.73	+0.91
	ACT	Dasha Kovalenko		193	0.71	+0.26	329	1.17	–0.01
	Climate	Peter Whitmore		50	0.18	+0.18
	Money Free	Jordan Osmaston		19	0.07	+0.07
	NZ First						1,459	5.18	+1.08
	Internet Mana						553	1.96	+1.27^[a]
	Māori Party						158	0.56	–1.08
	Legalise Cannabis						85	0.30	–0.12
	United Future						53	0.19	–0.03
	Civilian						17	0.06	+0.06
	Ban 1080						10	0.04	+0.04
	Independent Coalition						7	0.02	+0.02
	Democrats						3	0.01	–0.58
	Focus						2	0.01	+0.01
Informal votes				195			99
Total valid votes				27,453			28,256
Turnout				28,040	76.76^[4]	+1.47
	National hold		Majority	600	2.20	+0.04

2017 Mount Albert by-election
Notes: Blue background denotes the winner of the by-election. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list prior to the by-election. Yellow background denotes the winner of the by-election, who was a list MP prior to the by-election. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jacinda Ardern	10,495	76.89
	Green	Julie Anne Genter	1,564	11.45
	Opportunities	Geoff Simmons	623	4.56
	People's Party	Vin Tomar	218	1.59
	Socialist Aotearoa	Joe Carolan	189	1.38
	Independent	Penny Bright	139	1.01
	Legalise Cannabis	Abe Gray	97	0.71
	Independent	Adam Amos	81	0.59
	Independent	Dale Arthur	54	0.39
	Human Rights Party	Anthony Van den Heuvel	34	0.24
	Independent	Peter Wakeman	30	0.21
	Not A Party	Simon Smythe	19	0.13
	Communist League	Patrick Brown	16	0.11
Informal votes			90	0.65
Total Valid votes			13,649	30.00
	Labour hold	Majority	8,931	65.43

2017 general election: Mount Albert^[6]
Notes:		Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y Jacinda Ardern		24,416	63.91	+5.74	16,742	43.19	+13.88
	National	Melissa Lee		9,152	23.95	−4.66	13,112	33.82	−5.56
	Green	Julie Anne Genter		2,438	6.38	−2.36	5,657	14.59	−7.09
	Opportunities	Dan Thurston		924	2.41	-	1,144	2.95	—
	NZ First	Andrew Littlejohn		724	1.89	—	1,329	3.42	−0.68
	Conservative	Jeff Johnson		117	0.30	−1.16	65	0.16	−1.79
	Independent	Bruce Stockman		66	0.17	—
	Human Rights Party	Anthony Van den Heuvel		28	0.07	−0.14
	ACT						229	0.59	−0.47
	Māori Party						175	0.45	−0.03
	Legalise Cannabis						63	0.16	−0.09
	People's Party						31	0.07	—
	United Future						22	0.05	−0.10
	Outdoors						17	0.04	—
	Internet						12	0.04	—
	Mana						8	0.02	—
	Ban 1080						6	0.01	−0.02
	Democrats						2	0.01	−0.01
Informal votes				334			146
Total valid votes				38,199			38,760
Turnout				38,760
	Labour hold		Majority	15,264	39.96	+10.40

2008 election

v t e Jacinda Ardern
40th Prime Minister (2017–2023) • Leader of the Labour Party (2017–2023) • Member of Parliament for Mount Albert (2017–2023)
Premiership	Sixth Labour Government of New Zealand First term (2017-2020) Second term (2020-2023) International trips Shadow Cabinet Christchurch Call COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand Government response Resignation
Electoral history	2017 Mount Albert by-election 2017 leadership election 2017 general election 2020 general election
Family	Ross Ardern (father) Clarke Gayford (husband) Paddles (pet)
Depictions	A Different Kind of Power (memoir) Prime Minister (documentary)
Eponyms	Hemiandrus jacinda Mecodema jacinda Ocellularia jacinda-arderniae