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66: 26: 211:, and a candidate would require the support of two-thirds of the party caucus (i.e., 48 MPs) to be elected. If no-one can get two-thirds the candidate with the fewest votes would be eliminated. This would continue until someone is elected. Caucus may hold multiple rounds of voting for the final two candidates. If no candidate can be selected, then the leadership will be determined by an 470:. The Labour Party constitution requires a confidence vote on the leader to be held within three months of each general election, after which a new leadership election will be triggered if the leader does not have the support of 60% of their caucus. In the 7 November 2023 vote, Hipkins was re-elected unopposed. 286:
conducted a survey the day after Ardern announced her resignation. The survey data is a weighted average, however "due to being an anonymous, public poll, it was possible respondents could have answered the survey multiple times." Curia conducted a scientific online poll on behalf of The Taxpayers'
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A caucus meeting, where Hipkins was formally confirmed as Labour leader, occurred on Sunday 22 January at 1pm. The Labour Māori caucus, an influential subgroup of 14 MPs, intended to meet the day before; but with Hipkins as the only candidate, the meeting was cancelled. Ahead of a scheduled press
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advised they would not be running. Labour MPs told media they had agreed they would identify a "consensus candidate" who had the support of the whole caucus. In his first media appearance as the presumptive leader, in front of Parliament on 21 January, Hipkins told media he found out he had his
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Wood, who had been a possible leadership contender earlier in the week, said he 'self-evidently' decided not to run for the position and was 'proud' to be among MPs that nominated Hipkins for the role.
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The leadership election was the first to be held under new rules agreed by the party in 2021. Candidates needed 10% of the caucus (seven MPs) to nominate. The caucus (64 Labour
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A detail from the behind the scenes machinations here: Kiri Allan was among the seven MPs who nominated Chris Hipkins as a candidate for the party's leader position.
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conference that was timed for two hours after the beginning of the caucus meeting, where the outcome of the election was to be announced, Labour MPs
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as the only candidate, he won the election by default. He was confirmed as leader on the afternoon of 22 January, with Ardern's deputy leader
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party's unanimous support as "the door to the plane was closing," leaving him unable to respond to his messages for 40 minutes.
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the Māori caucus decided not to meet on Saturday, after initially planning to meet ahead of the full caucus vote.
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was quelled after Hipkins agreed to review the party's tax policy. At the same meeting,
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resigned as deputy leader and was succeeded by outgoing deputy prime minister
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As the leader of the governing party, Hipkins was sworn in as the 41st
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Jacinda Ardern served as leader of the Labour Party after winning the
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comprising the caucus (40 per cent), party members (40 per cent) and
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that Hipkins would be the new Labour leader and broke the news that
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on 25 January 2023. He led the Labour Party to its defeat at the
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was held on 22 January 2023 to choose the next leader of the
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Hipkins was the only nominee. His nominators included
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2017

Chris Hipkins
Jacinda Ardern
Chris Hipkins
New Zealand Labour Party
resignation
Prime Minister
Labour Party Leader
Jacinda Ardern
Chris Hipkins
Kelvin Davis
2017 leadership election
2020 general election
Prime Minister of New Zealand
MPs
exhaustive ballot
electoral college
trade unions
simple majority
Michael Wood
Kiri Allan
Kelvin Davis
Grant Robertson
Jenny Salesa
Shanan Halbert
Twitter
Kelvin Davis
social development minister

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