Labour MP and employment lawyer with experience in workplace relations and legislation.

Priorities: Workers' rights, fair pay, employment law, equality and accessible public services.

ACT leader, Epsom MP and Deputy Prime Minister with an electrical-engineering and philosophy background; elected locally four times since 2014.

Priorities: Local constituent service, educational achievement, charter schools, personal freedom, lower regulation and equal opportunity.

Green MP, former tertiary educator and party co-convenor with a doctorate in Egyptology; spokesperson across education, justice, trade and ethnic communities.

Priorities: Community-led education and justice, ethnic-community representation, seniors, fair trade and stronger links between communities and Parliament.

Law and economics graduate and former chief executive across energy and transport organisations, with major experience in infrastructure, manufacturing and exporting.

Priorities: Energy security, industrial gas supply, efficient transport investment and practical solutions for New Zealand's productive economy.

Senior National minister and Epsom-based list MP with justice, defence, public service and arts portfolios.

Priorities: Justice, defence, public-sector performance, Treaty negotiations and cultural institutions.

Auckland-raised logistics professional with conjoint commerce and science degrees in operations and supply-chain management; experienced in global chokepoints, strategic forecasting and commercial delivery.

Priorities: Long-term cross-party infrastructure planning, ending policy see-saws, evidence-based government, stronger Kiwi businesses and a unifying political approach.