Nanaia Mahuta
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| Parl. | Electorate | List Pos. | Party |
| 45th | List | 8 | Labour |
| 46th | Te Tai Hauauru | 10 | Labour |
| 47th | Tainui | 19 | Labour |
| 48th | Tainui | ? | Labour |
Mahuta was first elected to Parliament in the 1996 elections, when she became a list MP. In the 1999 elections, she won the Te Tai Hauauru electorate, and in the 2002 elections, she won Tainui. In 2004, she joined Tariana Turia, another Labour MP, in voting against the first reading of her party's legislation on the controversial foreshore and seabed issue. She did not, however, join Turia when she quit Labour to found the Maori Party. In the bill's second reading, she again voted against her party, but in the third reading, she changed her position and supported it, saying that while it had "serious flaws, ... at the end of the day, it was the right thing to do".
In the 2005 general election Mahuta held her electorate seat of Tainui. Subsequently, Mahuta as part of the current Labour-Progressive coalition government, is Minister of Customs, Youth Affairs and Associate Environment and Local Government.
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