New Zealand Members of Parliament

Current and historical members of the New Zealand House of Representatives

Members of the House of Representatives, the unicameral parliament of New Zealand. Its members are elected for three-year terms under a mixed-member proportional system, currently filling 120–123 seats, and hold the country's legislative power, including making laws, voting supply, and forming the government from which the Prime Minister and Cabinet are drawn.

This dataset records both current and historical members, with their name, year of birth and death, gender, the electorate they represented, and their party affiliation across each parliamentary term.

Data overview 

Entities:
Total1,257
Searchable355
Targets354
Entity types:
People354
Positions1
Countries:
New Zealand355
Publisher:New Zealand Parliament · New Zealand

Te Pāremata o Aotearoa, the New Zealand Parliament, is the unicameral legislature of New Zealand, consisting of the Sovereign and the House of Representatives. The member data is maintained by the Parliamentary Service and published via the Department of Internal Affairs on the data.govt.nz open data catalogue.

Collections:in OpenSanctions Default · Politically Exposed Persons Datasets
Information:catalogue.data.govt.nz
Source data:catalogue.data.govt.nz · JSON
Coverage:added · frequency: monthly
Last processed:
2026-07-26 21:09:02 · v. 20260726210902-dou
Last change:

Bulk download 

Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.

File nameExport typeSize
entities.ftm.jsonFollowTheMoney entities564.23 KB
names.txtTarget names text file5.35 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format190.46 KB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON960.54 KB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV59.93 KB

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Using the API 

You can query the data in this dataset via these API endpoints:

For entity matching, use the /match endpoint:
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint:
Use the Reconciliation API in OpenRefine:

Recent additions 

The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:

AddedNameTypeCountries
H V Ross ROBERTSONPersonNew Zealand
Oriini KaiparaPersonNew Zealand
David WilsonPersonNew Zealand
Benjamin DoylePersonNew Zealand
Takutai Tarsh KempPersonNew Zealand
Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-ClarkePersonNew Zealand
Celia Wade-BrownPersonNew Zealand
Hūhana LyndonPersonNew Zealand
Lawrence Xu-NanPersonNew Zealand
Francisco HernandezPersonNew Zealand
Cameron BrewerPersonNew Zealand
Lan PhamPersonNew Zealand
Nancy LuPersonNew Zealand
Hamish CampbellPersonNew Zealand
James MeagerPersonNew Zealand
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