Party lists in the 2026 New Zealand general election
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The 2026 New Zealand general election will be held on Saturday, 7 November 2026 to determine the membership of the 55th New Zealand Parliament.[1]
| Year | Party list | Candidates |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | party lists | by electorate |
| 1999 | party lists | by electorate |
| 2002 | party lists | by electorate |
| 2005 | party lists | by electorate |
| 2008 | party lists | by electorate |
| 2011 | party lists | by electorate |
| 2014 | party lists | by electorate |
| 2017 | party lists | by electorate |
| 2020 | party lists | by electorate |
| 2023 | party lists | by electorate |
| 2026 | party lists | by electorate |
Green Party
The Green Party has a two-stage process to determine its party list: an initial list determined by attendees of the annual Green Party conference and then a vote and ordering by members of the party to either uphold the list or generate a different list voted on by the party. The initial list was published on 12 March 2026.[2][3]
| Rank | Name | Portrait | Incumbency | Contesting electorate | Previous rank | Change | Initial results | Later changes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marama Davidson | .jpg) |
List | 1 | 0 | |||
| 2 | Chlöe Swarbrick | .jpg) |
Electorate | Auckland Central | 3 | +1 | ||
| 3 | Teanau Tuiono | .jpg) |
List | Palmerston North | 5 | +2 | ||
| 4 | Tamatha Paul | _(cropped).jpg) |
Electorate | Wellington North | — | — | ||
| 5 | Julie Anne Genter | .jpg) |
Electorate | Wellington Bays | 4 | −1 | ||
| 6 | Hūhana Lyndon | .jpg) |
List | Te Tai Tokerau | 10 | +4 | ||
| 7 | Lawrence Xu-Nan | .jpg) |
List | Epsom | 16 | +9 | ||
| 8 | Lan Pham | .jpg) |
List | Kenepuru | 6 | −2 | ||
| 9 | Ricardo Menéndez March | .jpg) |
List | Mount Albert | 8 | −1 | ||
| 10 | Francisco Hernandez | .jpg) |
List | Dunedin | 17 | +7 | ||
| 11 | Kahurangi Carter | .jpg) |
List | Christchurch Central | 14 | +3 | ||
| 12 | Craig Pauling | .jpg) |
Banks Peninsula | — | — | |||
| 13 | Bhen Goodsir | .jpg) |
— | — | ||||
| 14 | Steve Abel | .jpg) |
List | Waitakere | 9 | −5 | ||
| 15 | Tania Waikato | .jpg) |
Waiariki | — | — | |||
| 16 | Scott Willis | .jpg) |
List | Taieri | 12 | −4 | ||
| 17 | Rohan O'Neill-Stevens | .jpg) |
Nelson | — | — | |||
| 18 | Yasmine Serhan | .jpg) |
Glendene | — | — | |||
| 19 | Heather Te Au-Skipworth | .jpg) |
Ikaroa-Rāwhiti | — | — | |||
| 20 | Louise Hutt | .jpg) |
Hamilton West | — | — | |||
| 21 | Shreejan Pandey | .jpg) |
— | — | ||||
| 22 | Mike Davidson | .jpg) |
List | Ilam | 19 | −3 | ||
| 23 | Asher Wilson-Goldman | .jpg) |
Kapiti | — | — | |||
| 24 | Zephyr Brown | .png) |
Kaipara ki Mahurangi | 31 | +7 | |||
| 25 | Angela Dalton | .jpg) |
Papakura | — | — | |||
| 26 | Josh Jacobsen | .jpg) |
— | — | ||||
| 27 | Lauren Craig | .jpg) |
— | — | ||||
| 28 | Carl Morgan |  |
Port Waikato | — | — | |||
| 29 | Nathan Gray | .jpg) |
— | — | ||||
| 30 | Te Whatanui Skipwith | .jpg) |
— | — | ||||
| 32 | Alika Wells | .jpg) |
Henderson | — | — | |||
| 33 | Courtney White | .jpg) |
Hutt South | — | — | |||
| 34 | Awhi Haenga | .jpg) |
Whanganui | — | — | |||
| 35 | Pamela Grealey | .jpg) |
Coromandel | 35 | 0 | |||
| 36 | Alma de Anda | .jpg) |
— | — | ||||
| 37 | Chris Norton | .jpg) |
Remutaka | 43 | +6 | |||
| 38 | Melody Willis | .jpg) |
— | — |
The final list was released on 22 April 2026.[4] Whanganui candidate Awhi Haenga, ranked 31st on the list, withdrew her candidacy on 27 May, citing family issues.[5]
| Rank | Name | Portrait | Incumbency | Contesting electorate | Previous rank | Change | Initial results | Later changes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marama Davidson | |
List | 1 | 0 | |||
| 2 | Chlöe Swarbrick | |
Electorate | Auckland Central | 3 | +1 | ||
| 3 | Teanau Tuiono | |
List | Palmerston North | 5 | +2 | ||
| 4 | Tamatha Paul | |
Electorate | Wellington North | — | — | ||
| 5 | Julie Anne Genter | |
Electorate | Wellington Bays | 4 | −1 | ||
| 6 | Lan Pham | |
List | Kenepuru | 6 | 0 | ||
| 7 | Hūhana Lyndon | |
List | Te Tai Tokerau | 10 | +3 | ||
| 8 | Lawrence Xu-Nan | |
List | Epsom | 16 | +8 | ||
| 9 | Ricardo Menéndez March | |
List | Mount Albert | 8 | −1 | ||
| 10 | Francisco Hernandez | |
List | Dunedin | 17 | +7 | ||
| 11 | Kahurangi Carter | |
List | Christchurch Central | 14 | +3 | ||
| 12 | Steve Abel | |
List | Waitakere | 9 | −3 | ||
| 13 | Tania Waikato | |
Waiariki | — | — | |||
| 14 | Craig Pauling | |
Banks Peninsula | — | — | |||
| 15 | Scott Willis | |
List | Taieri | 12 | −3 | ||
| 16 | Rohan O'Neill-Stevens | |
Nelson | — | — | |||
| 17 | Bhen Goodsir | |
Northcote | — | — | |||
| 18 | Yasmine Serhan | |
Glendene | — | — | |||
| 19 | Louise Hutt | |
Hamilton West | — | — | |||
| 20 | Mike Davidson | |
List | Ilam | 19 | −1 | ||
| 21 | Heather Te Au-Skipworth | |
Ikaroa-Rāwhiti | — | — | |||
| 22 | Shreejan Pandey | |
Wigram | — | — | |||
| 23 | Lauren Craig | |
Wairarapa | — | — | |||
| 24 | Zephyr Brown | |
Kaipara ki Mahurangi | 31 | +7 | |||
| 25 | Josh Jacobsen | |
North Shore | — | — | |||
| 26 | Angela Dalton | |
Papakura | — | — | |||
| 27 | Alika Wells | |
Henderson | — | — | |||
| 28 | Carl Morgan | |
Port Waikato | — | — | |||
| 29 | Courtney White | |
Hutt South | — | — | |||
| 30 | Te Whatanui Skipwith | |
Ōtāhuhu | — | — | |||
| 31 | Melody Willis | |
Kapiti | — | — | |||
| 32 | Pamela Grealey | |
Coromandel | 35 | +3 | |||
| 33 | Alma de Anda | |
Selwyn | — | — | |||
| 34 | Chris Norton | |
Remutaka | 43 | +9 |
Labour Party
The Labour Party released its list on 8 June 2026.[6]
| Rank | Name | Portrait | Incumbency | Contesting electorate | Previous rank | Change | Initial results | Later changes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chris Hipkins |  |
Electorate | Remutaka | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2 | Carmel Sepuloni |  |
Electorate | Glendene | 3 | +1 | ||
| 3 | Barbara Edmonds |  |
Electorate | Kenepuru | 18 | +15 | ||
| 4 | Willie Jackson |  |
List | 8 | +4 | |||
| 5 | Megan Woods |  |
Electorate | 5 | 0 | |||
| 6 | Ayesha Verrall |  |
List | Wellington North | 7 | +1 | ||
| 7 | Willow-Jean Prime |  |
List | Te Tai Tokerau | 9 | +2 | ||
| 8 | Vanushi Walters |  |
List | Waitakere | 30 | +22 | ||
| 9 | Cushla Tangaere-Manuel |  |
Electorate | Ikaroa-Rawhiti | — | — | ||
| 10 | Kieran McAnulty |  |
List | Wairarapa | 16 | +6 | ||
| 11 | Rachel Brooking |  |
Electorate | Dunedin | 23 | +12 | ||
| 12 | Ginny Andersen |  |
List | Hutt South | 17 | +5 | ||
| 13 | Rakesh Naidoo | .jpg) |
— | — | ||||
| 14 | Tangi Utikere |  |
Electorate | Palmerston North | 25 | +11 | ||
| 15 | Jan Tinetti |  |
List | Tauranga | 6 | −9 | ||
| 16 | Damien O'Connor |  |
List | Waitaki | 10 | −6 | ||
| 17 | Jo Luxton |  |
List | East Cape | 19 | +2 | ||
| 18 | Priyanca Radhakrishnan |  |
List | Maungakiekie | 15 | −3 | ||
| 19 | Shanan Halbert |  |
List | Northcote | 28 | +9 | ||
| 20 | Chris Flatt | |
Taupō | — | — | |||
| 21 | Reuben Davidson |  |
Electorate | Christchurch East | 57 | +36 | ||
| 22 | Kingi Kiriona | |
Hauraki-Waikato | — | — | |||
| 23 | Camilla Belich |  |
List | Epsom | 26 | +3 | ||
| 24 | Jenny Salesa |  |
Electorate | Ōtāhuhu | 24 | 0 | ||
| 25 | Glen Bennett |  |
List | Coromandel | 29 | +4 | ||
| 26 | Sophie Handford |  |
Kapiti | — | — | |||
| 27 | Deborah Russell |  |
List | 22 | −5 | |||
| 28 | Tracey McLellan |  |
List | Banks Peninsula | 27 | −1 | ||
| 29 | Max Harris | |
Tāmaki | — | — | |||
| 30 | Warrick Cleine |  |
— | — | ||||
| 31 | Ibrahim Omer |  |
(Former MP) | 37 | +6 | |||
| 32 | Neru Leavasa |  |
(Former MP) | Botany | 38 | +6 | ||
| 33 | Georgie Dansey |  |
List | Hamilton East | 31 | −2 | ||
| 34 | Te Pūoho Kātene | |
Te Tai Hauāuru | — | — | |||
| 35 | Naisi Chen |  |
(Former MP) | Auckland Central | 33 | −2 | ||
| 36 | Dan Rosewarne |  |
List | Waimakariri | 32 | −4 | ||
| 37 | Rachel Boyack |  |
Electorate | Nelson | 42 | +5 | ||
| 38 | Helen White |  |
Electorate | Mount Albert | 47 | +9 | ||
| 39 | Ingrid Leary |  |
Electorate | Taieri | 52 | +13 | ||
| 40 | Phil Twyford |  |
Electorate | Henderson | 49 | +9 | ||
| 41 | Arena Williams |  |
Electorate | Manurewa | 48 | +7 | ||
| 42 | Lemauga Lydia Sosene |  |
Electorate | Māngere | 53 | +11 | ||
| 43 | Kerrin Leoni |  |
Tāmaki Makaurau | — | — | |||
| 44 | Toni Boynton |  |
Waiariki | 39 | −5 | |||
| 45 | Hannah Pia Baral | |
Upper Harbour | — | — | |||
| 46 | Angela Roberts |  |
(Former MP) | Whanganui | 35 | −11 | ||
| 47 | Estefania Muller-Pallarès |  |
Whangaparāoa | 55 | +8 | |||
| 48 | Anahila Kanongata'a |  |
(Former MP) | Papakura | 34 | −14 | ||
| 49 | Gary Payinda | |
Whangārei | — | — | |||
| 50 | Alex Hedley | |
Napier | — | — | |||
| 51 | Craig Renney | |
Wellington Bays | — | — | |||
| 52 | George Hampton |  |
Christchurch Central | 41 | −11 | |||
| 53 | Dominik Yanzick | |
Wigram | — | — | |||
| 54 | Rory Paterson | |
West Coast-Tasman | — | — | |||
| 55 | Ashleigh Latimer | |
Northland | — | — | |||
| 56 | Rata Jamieson | |
Ilam | — | — | |||
| 57 | Naresh Perinpanayagam | |
— | — | ||||
| 58 | Peter McDonald | |
Southland | — | — | |||
| 59 | Amanda Clinton-Gohdes | |
New Plymouth | — | — | |||
| 60 | Myra Williamson |  |
Hamilton West | 62 | +2 | |||
| 61 | Kharag Singh |  |
Takanini | 66 | +5 | |||
| 62 | Janice Lee | |
Invercargill | — | — | |||
| 63 | Sam Collins | |
North Shore | — | — | |||
| 64 | Sange Malama | |
Rangitata | — | — | |||
| 65 | Rhieve Grey | |
Mount Maunganui | — | — | |||
| 66 | Karl Severinsen | |
Rangitīkei | — | — | |||
| 67 | Henrietta Hunkin-Tagaloa | |
— | — | ||||
| 68 | Fisher Wang | |
Rotorua | — | — | |||
| 69 | Brendan McEnroe |  |
East Coast Bays | — | — | |||
| 70 | Campbell Matthews | Pakuranga | — | — | ||||
| 71 | David Pattemore | |
Taranaki-King Country | — | — | |||
| 72 | Nathaniel Howe | |
— | — |
Opportunity Party
The Opportunity Party (TOP) announced their list on 31 July 2026.[7]
| Rank | Name | Incumbency | Contesting electorate | Previous rank | Change | Initial results | Later changes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qiulae Wong | Mount Albert | — | — | |||
| 2 | Daniel Eb | Kaipara ki Mahurangi | — | — | |||
| 3 | Jessica Hammond | Wellington North | 6 | +3 | |||
| 4 | Kayla Kingdon-Bebb | Wellington Bays | — | — | |||
| 5 | Eden Skipper | Christchurch Central | — | — | |||
| 6 | Jodie Kuntzsch | Nelson | — | — | |||
| 7 | Sarah Lucas | New Plymouth | — | — | |||
| 8 | David Bainbridge-Zafar | Dunedin | — | — | |||
| 9 | Holly Knill | North Shore | — | — | |||
| 10 | Pāpā Wharewera | Waiariki | — | — | |||
| 11 | Bianca Beebe | Southland | — | — | |||
| 12 | Romeo Tevaga | Upper Harbour | — | — | |||
| 13 | Ben Wylie-van Eerd | Hutt South | 11 | −2 | |||
| 14 | Rachel Ward | Tukituki | — | — | |||
| 15 | Naomi Pocock | Hamilton East | 9 | −6 | |||
| 16 | Helen Tait | Waitaki | — | — | |||
| 17 | Cody Marsh | Northcote | — | — | |||
| 18 | Adam Macrae-Martin | Ōtāhuhu | — | — | |||
| 19 | Mark Roach | Waitakere | — | — | |||
| 20 | Robert Mason | Kenepuru | — | — | |||
| 21 | Luke Ross | Remutaka | — | — | |||
| 22 | Michael Carter | Tauranga | — | — | |||
| 23 | Derrick Paul | Maungakiekie | — | — | |||
| 24 | Matt Shepherd | Wairarapa | — | — | |||
| 25 | Ben Lane | Māngere | — | — | |||
| 26 | Chee Khiang (CK) Sng | Kapiti | — | — | |||
| 27 | Finn Liley | Rotorua | — | — | |||
| 28 | Evan French | Glendene | — | — | |||
| 29 | Jamie Attenborough | Mount Roskill | — | — | |||
| 30 | Matthew Harris | Rangitata | — | — | |||
| 31 | Sacha Haskell | Tāmaki | — | — | |||
| 32 | Netra Ghimire | Palmerston North | — | — | |||
| 33 | Cail Smith | East Cape | — | — | |||
| 34 | Sam Plummer | Taupō | — | — | |||
| 35 | Blair Smith | Hamilton West | — | — | |||
| 36 | Johan Chang | Auckland Central | — | — | |||
| 37 | Almo Wong | Henderson | — | — | |||
| 38 | Adrian Mee | Selwyn | — | — | |||
| 39 | Paul Jackson | Epsom | — | — | |||
| 40 | Kevin Huang | Pakuranga | — | — |