![]() Exactly five months later, with an election due, Labour's leader Andrew Little resigned after a historically low opinion polling result for the party, with Ardern elected unopposed as leader in his place. She was later elected to represent the Mount Albert electorate in a by-election on 25 February 2017.Īrdern was unanimously elected as deputy leader of the Labour Party on 1 March 2017, after the resignation of Annette King. Ardern was first elected as an MP in the 2008 general election, when Labour lost power after nine years. In 2008, Ardern was elected president of the International Union of Socialist Youth. She later worked in London as an adviser in the Cabinet Office during Tony Blair's premiership. After graduating from the University of Waikato in 2001, Ardern worked as a researcher in the office of Prime Minister Helen Clark. She joined the Labour Party at the age of 17. īorn in Hamilton, Ardern grew up in Morrinsville and Murupara. A member of the Labour Party, she was a member of Parliament (MP) as a list MP from 2008 to 2017, and for Mount Albert from 2017 to 2023. ![]() Dame Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern GNZM ( / dʒ ə ˈ s ɪ n d ə ɑːr ˈ d ɜːr n/ jə- SIN-də ar- DURN born 26 July 1980) is a New Zealand former politician who served as the 40th prime minister of New Zealand and leader of the Labour Party from 2017 to 2023. ![]()
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