Elected member for this seat in the current Parliament. Open their profile for background, promises and coverage.
Announced Opportunity candidate; party-list candidate #26.
Priorities: No individual platform located; Opportunity’s stated direction is less divisive politics, an innovative high-wage economy and restoration of nature.
Activist and organiser with operations, planning and governance experience and a degree spanning Māori Resource Management, Public Policy and Political Science; returned to Aotearoa after 15 years in Australia.
Priorities: Workers, animals, equity, sustainability, mātauranga Māori, mana whenua, disabled and rainbow communities and protection of marginalised people.
Former political press secretary and senior public-sector communicator, journalist, Otaki College board chair and three-term Greater Wellington regional councillor.
Priorities: Economic development, public transport, water sustainability, education, environmental projects and reducing debt and dependency.
Kāpiti Coast District councillor and Strategy and Operations chair with youth-climate and community leadership experience.
Priorities: Community wellbeing, support for families under pressure, local economic engagement and responsive representation.
Current MP for Ōtaki in the 54th Parliament; Incumbent MP for the former Ōtaki seat; former Air Force officer.
Priorities: Better local healthcare and transport connections, more affordable living, stronger education outcomes and safer communities; emphasises constituent casework and local delivery.