Infrastructure executive with more than 25 years delivering major civil projects across New Zealand and the Pacific, progressing from trades work to senior management.

Priorities: Essential infrastructure, local enterprise, workforce development, regional growth, fiscal responsibility and practical delivery.

Rotorua-raised politics and public-policy graduate, conservation volunteer and former emergency medical call-taker; former Young Opportunity president.

Priorities: Environmental protection, a green economy, youth engagement and durable cross-party solutions.

Rotorua-born former farm child and three-term Rotorua Lakes councillor, first elected in 2019 as the district’s youngest councillor and highest polling in 2022 and 2025; active across youth, health, arts, sport, sustainability and employment governance.

Priorities: Local economy, housing, accessible healthcare, decent jobs, cost of living, long-term infrastructure, health and education investment and consensus-based leadership.

Rotorua MP and minister for agriculture, forestry, trade and investment.

Priorities: Primary industries, exports, trade and Rotorua's regional economy.