Accountant, business owner and long-time Mid Canterbury resident with practical commercial experience.

Priorities: Fiscal discipline, small business, productive regional economies and accountable government.

Farmer and father with direct experience of dairy farming, hardship and building a life in agriculture.

Priorities: Fair opportunity, family economic security, strong rural communities, sustainable farming and a healthy environment for future generations.

Certified plumber, gasfitter and drainlayer with 27 years in construction; former farmer, manufacturer and gamebird-rearing business owner.

Priorities: Personal responsibility, construction and trades, family opportunity, equality before the law and a better future for young New Zealanders.

Rangitata MP and minister for the South Island, youth, hunting and fishing.

Priorities: South Island growth, youth opportunity, transport and outdoor interests.

Technology and complex-systems consultant, trainer and coach based at Lake Hood near Ashburton.

Priorities: Evidence-based long-term decisions; Opportunity's Tax Reset and Citizen's Income; practical action on cost of living, roads, water quality and sustainable local jobs.

Tokelauan-Tongan community worker and navigator who has worked in factories, hospitality cleaning and frontline whānau support.

Priorities: Cost-of-living relief, collective wellbeing, Pacific representation and grassroots engagement with non-voters, migrants and vulnerable families.