2025 Tāmaki Makaurau by-election
by-election in New Zealand
A by-election was held in the Tāmaki Makaurau electorate on 6 September 2025. The by-election was triggered by the death of Takutai Tarsh Kemp, an MP for Te Pāti Māori.
Broadcaster Oriini Kaipara held the seat for Te Pāti Māori, defeating Labour MP Peeni Henare, who previously held it between 2014 and 2023.
Background
Constituency
The electorate covers central and southern Auckland. At the 2023 election, Takutai Tarsh Kemp of Te Pāti Māori defeated the incumbent Labour MP Peeni Henare by a margin of just 42 votes.
Trigger
The by-election was triggered by the unexpected death of the sitting MP, Kemp, on 26 June 2025.
The process for calling a by-election when an MP dies is that once the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages receives the registration of death for a sitting MP, they must inform the speaker of the House of Representatives within 12 hours. The speaker of the House must then publish, without delay, the notice of vacancy of the seat in the New Zealand Gazette. The notice was published in the Gazette on 9 July 2025.
The governor-general must issue the writ for a by-election to fill a vacant electorate seat within 21 days of the Gazette notice (i.e.
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