{"id":391427,"date":"2026-04-22T02:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/391427\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T02:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:43:09","slug":"2026-election-lan-pham-moves-higher-than-two-fellow-mps-in-greens-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/391427\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 election: Lan Pham moves higher than two fellow MPs in Greens list"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MPs<\/p>\n

\nMPs Gen Bennett (Labour), and Lan Pham (Green) at a Select Committee.
\nPhoto: VNP \/ Phil Smith\n<\/p>\n

The Green Party has confirmed its candidate list for the election, with some current MPs bumped up slightly compared to an earlier draft<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That initial list was put together by delegates, to then be voted on by the wider party membership, then reviewed and approved for publication by a group of party representatives.<\/p>\n

The final version has Lan Pham leapfrogging Parliamentary colleagues H\u016bhana Lyndon and Lawrence Xu-Nan.<\/p>\n

After the draft in March also had Steve Abel – ranked 9th for the 2023 election – dropping down to 14th, he is now back up to 12th, swapping places with former Environment Canterbury chairperson Craig Aaron Pauling.<\/p>\n

\"Steve<\/p>\n

\nGreen MP Steve Abel
\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Samuel Rillstone\n<\/p>\n

Lawyer and Treaty of Waitangi activist Tania Waikato – who put herself forward to represent Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori’s co-leaders and MP Hana-R\u0101whiti Maipi-Clarke at the Privileges Committee after the Treaty Principles Bill haka – has moved up two spots to 13th.<\/p>\n

That is a critical spot at this point with the most recent public poll – by Verian for 1News – projecting 13 seats for the Greens with 11 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n

Scott Willis, who came into Parliament at 12th, was ranked by delegates at 16th but has risen to 15th in the final list.<\/p>\n

Their elevation comes at the expense of Auckland Pride co-chair Bhen Goodsir, who has dropped from 13th in the draft to 17th.<\/p>\n

Mike Davidson, who entered Parliament at 19th after the resignation of Benjamin Doyle<\/a>, has returned to that spot after the draft list had him at 22nd.<\/p>\n

Heather Te Au-Skipworth – who quit Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori after being replaced for candidacy of the Ikaroa-R\u0101whiti seat in 2023 by her cousin Meka Whaitiri, who had jumped ship from Labour – has dropped from 19th to 21st.<\/p>\n

Two candidates – Asher Wilson-Goldman and Nathan Hoturoa Gray – have also withdrawn their names, with the party saying this was for personal reasons.<\/p>\n

The Greens list for 2026 election (with changes since the draft):<\/p>\n

1. Marama Davidson<\/p>\n

2. Chl\u00f6e Swarbrick<\/p>\n

3. Teanau Tuiono<\/p>\n

4. Tamatha Paul<\/p>\n

5. Julie Anne Genter<\/p>\n

6. Lan Pham (up two from 8)<\/p>\n

7. H\u016bhana Melanie Lyndon (down one from 6)<\/p>\n

8. Lawrence Xu-Nan (down one from 7)<\/p>\n

9. Ricardo Men\u00e9ndez March<\/p>\n

10. Francisco Hernandez<\/p>\n

11. Kahurangi Carter<\/p>\n

12. Steve Abel (up two from 14)<\/p>\n

13. Tania Waikato (up two from 15)<\/p>\n

14. Craig Aaron Pauling (down two from 12)<\/p>\n

15. Scott Willis (up one from 16)<\/p>\n

16. Rohan O’Neill-Stevens (up one from 17)<\/p>\n

17. Bhen Goodsir (down four from 13)<\/p>\n

18. Yasmine Serhan<\/p>\n

19. Louise Hutt (up one from 20)<\/p>\n

20. Mike Davidson (up two from 22)<\/p>\n

21. Heather Hinemoa Te Au-Skipworth (down two from 19)<\/p>\n

22. Shreejan Pandey (down one from 21)<\/p>\n

23. Lauren Craig (up four from 27)<\/p>\n

24. Zephyr Brown<\/p>\n

25. Josh Jacobsen (up one from 26)<\/p>\n

26. Angela Dalton (down one from 25)<\/p>\n

27. Alika Wells (up four from 31)<\/p>\n

28. Carl Morgan<\/p>\n

29. Courtney White (up three from 32)<\/p>\n

30. Te Whatanui Kipa Leka Taumalolo Skipwith<\/p>\n

31. Awhi Haenga (up two from 33)<\/p>\n

32. Melody Willis (up five from 37)<\/p>\n

33. Pamela Grealey (up one from 34)<\/p>\n

34. Alma de Anda (up one from 35)<\/p>\n

35. Chris Norton (up one from 36)<\/p>\n

Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MPs Gen Bennett (Labour), and Lan Pham (Green) at a Select Committee. Photo: VNP \/ Phil Smith The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-391427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}