Labour MP and spokesperson for mental health and seniors with an evidence-based community and regional focus.

Priorities: Mental-health access, early intervention, aged-care reform, retirement-village fairness and Taieri services.

Taieri candidate and branch manager for a national will-and-trust provider, with earlier hospitality-management and trust-executive experience; active in rugby, conservation and welfare-governance organisations.

Priorities: Rewarding work and saving, community and sporting organisations, responsible long-term planning and practical representation for Taieri.

Green MP and former climate consultant and community-energy leader with governance experience in energy, housing and regional business.

Priorities: Cleaner and cheaper decentralised energy, rural revitalisation, healthy housing, regional development, climate justice and biodiversity.