New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, 2014

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Candidate	Andrew Little	Grant Robertson
Percentage	50.52%	49.48%
Caucus	6.25%	17.5%
Members	10.28%	15.3%
Affiliates	12.82%	3.78%


Candidate	David Parker	Nanaia Mahuta
Caucus	8.75%	7.5%
Members	8.96%	5.45%
Affiliates	1.46%	1.94%

Leader before election

David Parker (interim)

Elected leader

Andrew Little

David Parker (interim)

Andrew Little

The 2014 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election was held to choose the leader of the Labour Party. Andrew Little won the election and became leader of the party.

The election followed the resignation of leader David Cunliffe on 27 September 2014 after an historic general election defeat a week earlier. David Parker and Annette King were installed as interim leader and deputy leader, respectively. Nominations for the leadership closed on 14 October, and Labour Party members met the candidates in 14 hustings meetings throughout the country. The results of the contest were announced on 18 November. Under Labour Party rules, party members have 40% of the votes, caucus members have another 40% of the votes, and affiliated unions have 20% of the votes.

David Cunliffe was the first person to put forward their nomination, but he later withdrew from the contest on 13 October. Candidates, in the order of their nominations being put forward, were Grant Robertson, Andrew Little, David Parker and Nanaia Mahuta.

The Labour Party has remained in opposition since the Fifth Labour Government was voted out in the 2008 general election. The Labour Party's leader, Helen Clark, resigned on election night and was replaced days later by long-serving MP and former Cabinet minister Phil Goff. Labour's vote decreased to 27% at the 2011 general election and Goff subsequently resigned.The leadership election later that year saw David Shearer beat David Cunliffe in a vote of the party's caucus. In 2012 the party rewrote its leadership rules, giving the party's parliamentary caucus 40% of the vote, the party membership 40% and affiliated unions 20%, and using instant-runoff voting if there are more than two candidates. In 2013 Shearer resigned as party leader and the Labour Party elected Cunliffe as its parliamentary leader over Grant Robertson and Shane Jones.

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