Former National list MP, West Auckland small-business owner, business mentor and community volunteer; founded Pacific fashion brand MENA and grew up in a state house as the daughter of Samoan immigrants.

Priorities: Families, education, enterprise, women and Pasifika communities, small-business opportunity and strong local representation for Waitākere.

Builder, construction-business owner and national president of the New Zealand Deerstalkers Association.

Priorities: Small business, less bureaucracy, hunting and firearms-owner rights, conservation and outdoor recreation.

Music-sector entrepreneur and consultant; founder of music infrastructure organisations and leader of Auckland's UNESCO City of Music work.

Priorities: Creative industries, small business, cultural vitality, social equity, innovation and long-term nation building.

Green MP and long-time environmental campaigner involved in ending native logging, opposing coal and offshore drilling and exposing nitrate contamination.

Priorities: Te Tiriti, social justice, ecological agriculture, forests, freshwater, oceans, animal welfare and environmental integrity.

Lawyer and Labour foreign-affairs spokesperson with senior experience in community law, YouthLaw and the Human Rights Commission.

Priorities: Healthcare, affordable homes, secure jobs, cost of living, rule of law and accountable public institutions.