Megan Woods

Dr Megan Woods
Megan Woods in 2011
Personal details
Born	(1973-11-04) 4 November 1973 (age 43)
Political party	Labour (since 2007)
Other political affiliations	Progressive Party (1999–2007)
Website	Profile on Labour website

Megan Cherie Woods (born 4 November 1973) is the Labour Party Member of Parliament for the Wigram electorate of the New Zealand Parliament.

Woods was born and grew up in Wigram, Christchurch. She attended high school at Catholic Cathedral College and has a PhD in history obtained at the University of Canterbury.

Woods was a business manager for Crop & Food Research (2005–08) and its successor organisation Plant and Food Research (2008), based at Lincoln.

Woods was a member of the Progressive Party from 1999 to 2007 and was involved in several of Jim Anderton's re-election campaigns. She contested the Christchurch Central electorate in the 2005 general election and came fourth, receiving 1077 votes (3.2% of the electorate votes). She was placed fourth on the Progressive party list. As the party obtained only 1.2% of the party vote, she did not enter Parliament that year.

She was a member of the Spreydon–Heathcote community board in Christchurch in 2004–2007.

Woods joined the Labour Party in 2007. In the same year, she contested the Christchurch mayoralty for the centre-left Christchurch 2021 group, receiving 32,821 votes and coming second against Bob Parker (47,033 votes), but beating Jo Giles (14,454 votes) in the election contested by ten candidates. She did not contest the 2008 general election or the 2010 mayoral election.