Helen Clark - Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

Parliament of New Zealand
Years Term Electorate List Party
1981–1984 40th Mt Albert Labour
1984–1987 41st Mt Albert Labour
1987–1990 42nd Mt Albert Labour
1990–1993 43rd Mt Albert Labour
1993–1996 44th Mt Albert Labour
1996–1999 45th Owairaka 1 Labour
1999–2002 46th Mt Albert 1 Labour
2002–2005 47th Mt Albert 1 Labour
2005–2008 48th Mt Albert 1 Labour
2008–2009 49th Mt Albert 1 Labour

Helen Clark first gained election to the New Zealand House of Representatives in the 1981 general election as one of four women who entered Parliament on that occasion. In winning the Mount Albert electorate in Auckland, she became the second woman elected to represent an Auckland electorate, and the seventeenth woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament. At the 2005 general election Clark won 66% of the electorate votes, or 20,918 votes with a 14,749 majority. During her first term in the House (1981–1984), she became a member of the Statutes Revision Committee. In her second term (1984–1987), she chaired the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Select Committee on Disarmament and Arms Control, both of which combined with the Defence Select Committee in 1985 to form a single committee.

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