Official National candidate for Palmerston North with a verified party profile.

Priorities: Jobs, public services and practical city representation.

Palmerston North entrepreneur, mergers-and-acquisitions adviser and founder of business-valuation firm Fealty, with more than 30 years across investment, technology, tourism, consumer brands and growth strategy.

Priorities: Entrepreneurship, innovation, investment, business growth, capital access and creating opportunities for future generations.

NZ First board and Members’ Council representative, Netherlands-born migrant, foster and respite carer, former diversional-therapy assistant and business owner with experience in property development, hospitality and project management.

Priorities: Sovereignty, democracy, family support, vulnerable communities, small business, regional voice and practical opportunity for ordinary New Zealanders.

Former refugee from Nepal and high-school teacher of social studies, physical education and financial literacy.

Priorities: Youth pathways into trades, technology and entrepreneurship; financial capability, healthy communities and empowered local leadership.

Palmerston North MP and former deputy mayor with local-government and community leadership experience.

Priorities: Transport, local government, community services and city growth.

Second-term Green MP and first Green Assistant Speaker who passed the Restoration of Samoan Citizenship Act from opposition.

Priorities: Social justice, Pacific peoples, environmental protection, workplace rights, foreign affairs and effective cross-party parliamentary action.