Centre-left politics
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| 2024 | Three veteran Labour MPs - Kelvin Davis, Rino Tirikatene, and Grant Robertson - resigned from Parliament, allowing Shanan Halbert, Tracey McLellan, and Glen Bennett to re-enter Parliament via the party list. |
| November 29 2024 | At the Labour Party's annual conference, Chris Hipkins announced that under a Labour government, New Zealand would not be a part of AUKUS, pledging to 'restore New Zealand's proudly independent foreign policy'. |
| April 2024 | Labour called for New Zealand to recognise Palestinian statehood. |
| February 2024 | Two Labour MPs questioned New Zealand's potential involvement in the non-nuclear component of the AUKUS alliance, with foreign affairs spokesperson Phil Twyford describing it as an 'offensive warfighting alliance against China'. |
| 2023 | Labour lost its majority to the National Party and returned to Opposition. |
| 2023 | The New Zealand Labour Party maintained institutional links with 11 affiliated trade unions, with unions paying a party levy based on their membership size. |
| November 2023 | Chris Hipkins was re-elected as leader of the Labour Party, and Carmel Sepuloni was elected as deputy leader. |
| October 14 2023 | Labour lost its majority in the New Zealand general election, with its share of the popular vote declining to 26.91% and Parliamentary seats dropping to 34. |
| January 22 2023 | Chris Hipkins was confirmed as the new Labour leader, succeeding Ardern. |
| January 19 2023 | Jacinda Ardern announced her resignation as party leader and prime minister. |
| 2022 | Steve Walker was re-elected to the Dunedin City Council, while Labour candidate Joy Davis failed to win a seat in the local elections. |
| 2022 | Phil Goff completed his second and final term as mayor of Auckland. |
| 2022 | Labour MP Paul Eagle contested the Wellington City mayoral election, finishing in third place. |
| 2022 | Steve Chadwick resigned from her position as mayor of Rotorua after serving three terms. |
| 2022 | Lorna Johnson was re-elected to the Palmerston North City Council, while Zulfiqar Butt was defeated in the local elections. |
| 2022 | Hamish McDouall, a Labour Party member, was defeated in the Whanganui local elections by Andrew Tripe after serving two terms as mayor. McDouall subsequently ran on an independent ticket. |
| 2022 | Campbell Barry was re-elected as mayor of Lower Hutt, along with Labour ticket councillor Keri Brown for the Wainuiomata ward. |
| 2022 | Jill Day becomes Labour Party president, serving from 2022 to present. |
| 2022 | Daran Ponter was re-elected as the only Labour councillor on the Greater Wellington Regional Council. |
| 2022 | Lianne Dalziel completed her third and final term as mayor of Christchurch. |
| 2022 | Four Labour Party councillors were elected in the Wellington local elections: Ben McNulty (Northern Ward), Rebecca Matthews (Onslow-Western Ward), Teri O'Neill (Eastern Ward), and Nureddin Abdurahman (Southern Ward). |
| 2022 | Labour Party contested the Auckland local body elections alongside City Vision, resulting in four Labour councillors and 26 Labour candidates elected to local community boards in Auckland. |
| November 2021 | Marian Hobbs resigned from the Otago Regional Council. |
| August 2021 | Labour Government abandoned its COVID-19 elimination strategy following a major outbreak and began gradually easing lockdown and border restrictions. |
| 2020 | Labour won a landslide election, securing an overall majority of 10 and 50.01% of the vote. |
| October 31 2020 | Green Party agreed to enter a cooperation agreement with Labour, receiving two ministerial portfolios. |
| 2019 | Claire Szabó becomes Labour Party president, serving from 2019 to 2022. |
| 2019 | During the Christchurch local elections, Labour's affiliated group People's Choice won significant representation, including 10 community board seats, seven council seats, and several community board chairmanships. |
| 2019 | Zulfiqar Butt joined Lorna Johnson by standing on the Labour Party ticket in the Palmerston North local elections. |
| 2019 | Campbell Barry was first elected as mayor of Lower Hutt. |
| 2019 | Steve Walker and Marian Hobbs were elected to the Dunedin City Council and Otago Regional Council respectively on Labour Party tickets. |
| August 2018 | An independent review into the party's conduct and sexual assault complaint policy was completed by Party President Nigel Haworth, though the report was not released to the public. |
| March 2018 | The sexual assault allegations at the Young Labour summer camp were publicly reported, leading to awareness within the party leadership. |
| February 2018 | A Young Labour summer camp was held where four people under 16 were allegedly sexually assaulted, with reports of underage alcohol consumption. |
| October 19 2017 | Under Jacinda Ardern's leadership, Labour formed a minority coalition government with New Zealand First, with confidence and supply from the Green Party. |
| August 2017 | Under Jacinda Ardern's leadership, Labour rose dramatically in opinion polls, reaching 43% and overtaking National for the first time in over a decade. |
| August 1 2017 | Jacinda Ardern becomes the seventeenth leader of the Labour Party |
| 2016 | Phil Goff, a former Labour MP and cabinet minister, began his first term as mayor of Auckland. |
| 2016 | The Labour Party began contesting local elections in Palmerston North, breaking the tradition of keeping national party political affiliations out of local government. Lorna Johnson was elected to the Palmerston North City Council on the Labour Party ticket. |
| April 20 2016 | Labour Party reported dropping its plan to field a bloc of candidates in the 2016 Dunedin local elections. |
| February 26 2016 | David Benson-Pope, a Dunedin city councillor and former Labour MP, announced he would contest the October local elections under the 'Local Labour' ticket. |
| November 18 2014 | Andrew Little becomes the sixteenth leader of the Labour Party |
| 2013 | Harry Duynhoven was defeated as mayor of New Plymouth by Andrew Judd, ending his mayoral term. |
| 2013 | Lianne Dalziel began her first term as mayor of Christchurch, representing an independent candidacy after her previous role as a Labour MP and cabinet minister. |
| 2013 | Steve Chadwick, a former Labour electorate and list MP, was elected as mayor of Rotorua, running as an independent candidate. |
| September 15 2013 | David Cunliffe becomes the fifteenth leader of the Labour Party |
| December 13 2011 | David Shearer becomes the fourteenth leader of the Labour Party |
| 2010 | Harry Duynhoven, a former Labour Party MP, began serving as mayor of New Plymouth. |
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