Tukituki MP, lawyer, former TVNZ and BBC journalist and horticulture marketing executive; former Apples and Pears Board director, Environment Select Committee chair and parliamentary private secretary for cyclone recovery.

Priorities: Hawke’s Bay cyclone recovery, horticulture and export growth, the four-lane expressway, stronger education, regional jobs and a guaranteed option of at least 72 hours of postnatal care.

Hawke’s Bay-raised meteorologist and severe-weather forecaster with local trade-store experience and professional responsibility for helping New Zealand prepare for extreme weather.

Priorities: Cost of living, secure well-paid regional jobs, Hawke’s Bay healthcare, warm dry homes, climate action, resilience and protection of land, water and infrastructure.

Central Hawke's Bay natural-medicine graduate and small-scale land steward experienced in local-government and statutory processes.

Priorities: Water, sustainable land use, mental-health access, transparent governance, regional communities and long-term environmental responsibility.

Ecologist and animal-behaviour specialist; wildlife-sanctuary general manager and former animal-behaviour consultancy founder.

Priorities: Biodiversity restoration, practical conservation, environmental foundations for prosperity and collaborative community-led delivery.

Registered valuer and property-business owner with more than 25 years across commercial, residential and lifestyle property.

Priorities: Housing affordability, planning reform, enterprise and removing barriers that stop communities getting ahead.

Former All Blacks captain with law and commerce degrees and more than two decades in financial markets, emissions trading, investment and governance.

Priorities: Sound economic management, energy affordability, primary industries, regional leadership and a fair opportunity for working New Zealanders.