Stuart Nash

Stuart Nash MP
Stuart Nash in 2011
Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Napier
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 September 2014
Preceded by	Chris Tremain
Majority	3,733
Personal details
Born	August 1967 Napier
Political party	Labour
Relations	Walter Nash (great-grandfather) He is the adopted son of former Labour Prime Minister Walter Nash's grandson.
Residence	Napier, New Zealand
Profession	International Business

Stuart Alexander Nash (born August 1967) is a politician from New Zealand. He was a member of the House of Representatives for the Labour Party from 2008 to 2011, and was re-elected in the 2014 election as representative of the Napier electorate. Nash is the great-grandson of former Prime Minister, Sir Walter Nash.

Born and educated in Napier, Nash holds master's degrees in Law, Forestry Science and Management at University of Canterbury. Before moving back to his home town of Napier, he was the Director of Strategic Development at Auckland University of Technology.

In 2005 Nash was the Labour candidate for the safe National seat of Epsom, placing third behind Rodney Hide and Richard Worth; having been directed by then-Prime Minister Helen Clark to direct Labour supporters to vote for the National candidate, Richard Worth, in a strategy designed to defeat ACT MP, Rodney Hide. The tactic didn't work, with Hide winning; though at 9,915 Labour received the highest number of party votes in this electorate at any time under the MMP parliamentary system. Placed at number 60 on the party list, Nash failed to get elected.

In 2007 Nash contested the Labour Party selection for the Napier seat in the 2008 general election, but lost to Russell Fairbrother, a list MP and the former Napier electorate MP. However Nash was ranked at number 36 on the party list and was subsequently elected to parliament as the lowest-ranked candidate who was successful at the election.