Public-health researcher and labour organiser with a Johns Hopkins MPH; co-founder and chair of Fired Up Stilettos.

Priorities: Evidence-led regulation, workplace safety, women's rights, family and sexual-violence prevention and cross-party consensus building.

Southland dairy farmer, business owner and Federated Farmers Southland president with more than 30 years on the land.

Priorities: Rural communities, mental health, workable environmental and local-government regulation, economic strength, fairness and unity.

National MP for Southland and former lawyer.

Priorities: Southland infrastructure, farming, energy and regional growth.

Southland rural and conservation advocate with long engagement across farming communities and 30 years as a volunteer firefighter.

Priorities: Regional services and infrastructure, housing, workable farming solutions, environmental progress and calm practical leadership.

ACT MP and lawyer with nearly 20 years in healthcare leadership, including patient engagement and experience roles.

Priorities: Justice, finance, health, public-service performance, personal freedom, transparency and individual opportunity.