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(Top) 1 Members of Parliament who have served for at least 30 years 2 See also 3 Notes 4 References

List of longest-serving members of the New Zealand Parliament

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This is a list of members of the New Zealand Parliament who have served for at least 30 years. The time of service is not always continuous and separate terms are aggregated.

A total of 35 individuals have served in excess of 30 years in Parliament.^[1]

Members of Parliament who have served for at least 30 years[edit]

Key

Liberal	Reform	Labour
National	NZ First	United Future

†: Died in office

Name	First elected	Left Parliament	Highest office held	Period of service	References
Rex Mason	15 April 1926	25 October 1966^{[nb 1]}	Cabinet Minister	40 years, 193 days	^[2]
Sir Keith Holyoake	1 December 1932	10 March 1977	Prime Minister	39 years, 94 days	^[3]
Sir Maurice O'Rorke	18 January 1861	5 November 1902^{[nb 2]}	Speaker of the House	38 years, 235 days
Sir Walter Nash	18 December 1929	4 June 1968†	Prime Minister	38 years, 169 days	^[4]
Jonathan Hunt	26 November 1966	30 March 2005	Speaker of the House	38 years, 124 days	^[5]
Sir Āpirana Ngata	20 December 1905	30 August 1943^{[nb 3]}	Cabinet Minister	37 years, 253 days	^[6]
Sir Joseph Ward	26 September 1887	8 July 1930†	Prime Minister	36 years, 306 days
Winston Peters	24 May 1979	present	Deputy Prime Minister	36 years, 122 days
Trevor Mallard	14 July 1984	20 October 2022	Speaker of the House	35 years, 87 days	^[7]
Sir William Steward	3 February 1871	20 November 1911^{[nb 4]}	Speaker of the House	34 years, 287 days	^[8]^[9]
George Forbes	17 November 1908	30 August 1943^{[nb 5]}	Prime Minister	34 years, 286 days
Sir Eruera Tirikatene	3 August 1932	11 January 1967†	Cabinet Minister	34 years, 161 days
Warren Freer	24 September 1947	29 October 1981^{[nb 6]}	Cabinet Minister	34 years, 35 days	^[10]
Clyde Carr	14 November 1928	31 May 1962	Chairman of Committees	33 years, 198 days	^[11]
Peter Dunne	14 July 1984	23 September 2017	Cabinet Minister	33 years, 71 days	^[12]
William Hughes Field	6 January 1900	1 November 1935	MP	32 years, 278 days	^[13]
Sir Arnold Nordmeyer	27 November 1935	28 October 1969	Leader of the Opposition	32 years, 230 days	^[14]
Sir James Carroll	7 September 1887	27 November 1919^{[nb 7]}	Cabinet Minister	32 years, 81 days	^[15]
Peter Fraser	3 October 1918	12 December 1950†	Prime Minister	32 years, 70 days	^[16]
Phil Goff	28 November 1981	12 October 2016	Leader of the Opposition	31 years, 309 days
Robert McKeen	7 December 1922	5 October 1954^{[nb 8]}	Speaker of the House	31 years, 302 days	^[17]
Bill Parry	17 December 1919	27 July 1951^{[nb 9]}	Cabinet Minister	31 years, 222 days	^[18]
Gordon Coates	19 December 1911	27 May 1943†	Prime Minister	31 years, 159 days
Sir Robert Muldoon	26 November 1960	17 December 1991	Prime Minister	31 years, 35 days	^[19]
William Massey	9 April 1894	10 May 1925†	Prime Minister	31 years, 31 days	^[20]
Sir James Allen	26 September 1887	22 March 1920	Cabinet Minister	30 years, 330 days	^[21]
Nick Smith	27 October 1990	10 June 2021	Cabinet Minister	30 years, 226 days
Bob Tizard	30 November 1957	27 October 1990	Deputy Prime Minister	30 years, 196 days
Sir Robert Macfarlane	3 June 1939	28 October 1969^{[nb 10]}	Speaker of the House	30 years, 147 days
Sir Thomas Wilford	4 December 1896	18 November 1929	Leader of the Opposition	30 years, 109 days	^[22]^[23]
Annette King	14 July 1984	23 September 2017	Cabinet Minister	30 years, 63 days
Murray McCully	15 August 1987	23 September 2017	Cabinet Minister	30 years, 39 days
Maurice Williamson	15 August 1987	23 September 2017	Cabinet Minister	30 years, 39 days
Damien O'Connor	6 November 1993	present	Cabinet Minister	30 years, 63 days
Thomas Young Duncan	9 December 1881	19 December 1911	Cabinet Minister	30 years, 10 days

Table footnotes:^[24]

^ date of dissolution of the 34th Parliament

^ date of dissolution of the 14th Parliament

^ date of dissolution of the 26th Parliament

^ date of dissolution of the 17th Parliament

^ date of dissolution of the 26th Parliament

^ date of dissolution of the 39th Parliament

^ date of dissolution of the 19th Parliament

^ date of dissolution of the 30th Parliament

^ date of dissolution of the 29th Parliament

^ date of dissolution of the 35th Parliament

Notes[edit]

^ "Longest serving members of Parliament". New Zealand Parliament. Retrieved 5 November 2019.

^ Wilson 1985, pp. 215, 218.

^ Wilson 1985, pp. 47, 58, 206, 223.

^ Wilson 1985, pp. 58, 218, 223.

^ Wilson 1985, p. 206.

^ Wilson 1985, pp. 223, 245.

^ Neilson, Michael (20 October 2022). "Former Speaker and Labour MP Trevor Mallard delivers final speech in the House". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 21 October 2022.

^ "The Father of the House". The Marlborough Express. Vol. XXXIX, no. 155. 5 July 1906. p. 1. Retrieved 27 September 2013.

^ Wilson 1985, pp. 233, 236.

^ Wilson 1985, pp. 198, 206.

^ Wilson 1985, p. 188.

^ Wilson 1985, p. 194.

^ Wilson 1985, p. 195.

^ Wilson 1985, p. 223.

^ Wilson 1985, pp. 188, 201.

^ Wilson 1985, pp. 58, 198, 223.

^ Wilson 1985, pp. 215, 225.

^ Wilson 1985, pp. 198, 225.

^ Wilson 1985, pp. 58, 198, 222.

^ Wilson 1985, pp. 58, 179, 219.

^ Wilson 1985, pp. 179, 188.

^ "Maori MPs – Parliament's people". Ministry for Culture and Heritage. 20 December 2012. Retrieved 27 September 2013.

^ Wilson 1985, pp. 219, 245.

^ Wilson 1985, pp. 137–139.

References[edit]

Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.