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Chris Hipkins

Chris Hipkins

Chris Hipkins, born in 1978, is a New Zealand politician and Labour Party leader since January 2023.

Born
1978 (48 years), Wellington
Party
New Zealand Labour Party
Education
Victoria University of Wellington
Website
chrishipkins.org.nz
Political position

Centre-left · Where sources place the party (New Zealand Labour Party)
Wikipedia: centre-left (New Zealand Labour Party)
Ideology: social democracy

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He studied political science and criminology at Victoria University of Wellington, has been MP for Remutaka (formerly Rimutaka) since 2008, served as Prime Minister from January to November 2023, and has been Leader of the Opposition since. He is named in the market on who becomes Prime Minister after the 2026 New Zealand general election.

Career

Hipkins worked as a policy advisor and training manager before entering Parliament in 2008 for the Rimutaka seat, later renamed Remutaka. In the Labour government of 2017-2023 he was Minister of Education, Minister for the Public Service and Leader of the House. In 2020 he was briefly Minister of Health and then Minister for COVID-19 Response until 2022, and in 2022-2023 Minister of Police. He succeeded Jacinda Ardern as Labour leader and Prime Minister in January 2023, and led Labour into the October 2023 election, which it lost.

Offices held
  1. Prime Minister of New Zealand 2023–2023
  2. Minister of Police 2022–2023
  3. Minister of Education of New Zealand 2017–2023
  4. Minister for the Public Service 2017–2023
  5. Minister for COVID-19 Response 2020–2022
  6. Minister of Health 2020–2020

Source: Wikidata

Summarised automatically from the linked sources. Wikipedia · Wikipedia

Photo: New Zealand Labour Party., CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons (cropped)

  1. Chris Hipkins 45%
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Prime Minister of New Zealand?

OutcomeLeft – RightAgeProbability
Christopher LuxonCentre-right5656%
Chris HipkinsCentre-left4845%
Chlöe Swarbrick1%
David SeymourRight431%
Carmel SepuloniCentre-left1%
Winston PetersRight81<1%
Nicola Willis<1%

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