Electoral history of Christopher Luxon

Luxon in 2022

This is a summary of the electoral history of Christopher Luxon, Prime Minister of New Zealand (2023–present), Leader of the National Party (2021–present), and Member of Parliament for Botany (2020–present).

Parliamentary elections

2020 election

2020 general election: Botany
Notes:		Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	National	Christopher Luxon		19,017	52.46	–9.17	13,970	37.05	−23.78
	Labour	Naisi Chen		15,018	41.43	+16.81	17,900	47.48	+18.30
	ACT	Damien Smith		1,236	3.41	+2.46	2,563	6.80	+6.20
	New Conservative	Dieuwe De Boer		624	1.72	—	624	1.66	+1.40
	Sustainable NZ	Peter Fleming		358	0.99	—	26	0.07	–
	Green						1,236	3.28	+0.89
	NZ First						541	1.43	−3.14
	Opportunities						237	0.63	−0.19
	Advance NZ						159	0.42	–
	TEA						152	0.40	–
	ONE						85	0.23	–
	Legalise Cannabis						76	0.20	+0.05
	Māori Party						70	0.19	−0.37
	Vision NZ						40	0.11	–
	Outdoors						15	0.04	±0.00
	Heartland						5	0.01	–
	Social Credit						4	0.01	±0.00
Informal votes				1,264			261
Total valid votes				36,253			37,703
Turnout				37,964	73.83	+1.20
	National hold		Majority	3,999	10.53	−26.48

2023 election

2023 general election: Botany
Notes:		Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	National	Y Christopher Luxon		24,769	66.57	+14.11	22,239	58.74	+21.69
	Labour	Kharag Singh		8,432	22.66	-18.77	7,708	22.27	-25.21
	ACT	Bo Burns		1,959	5.26	+1.85	2,788	7.36	+0.56
	NZ Loyal	John Armstrong		624	1.67	—	280	0.73	—
	Animal Justice	Robert McNeil		428	1.15	—	98	0.25	–
	New Conservative	Dieuwe de Boer		300	0.80	-0.92	86	0.22	-1.44
	Green						2,212	5.84	+2.56
	NZ First						1,136	3.00	+1.57
	Opportunities						439	1.15	+0.33
	Te Pāti Māori						188	0.49	+0.30
	NewZeal						156	0.41	+0.18
	Freedoms NZ						127	0.33	–
	Legalise Cannabis						106	0.28	+0.08
	New Nation						37	0.09	–
	DemocracyNZ						29	0.07	–
	Women's Rights						27	0.07	–
	Leighton Baker Party						12	0.03	–
Informal votes				692			189
Total valid votes				37,204			37,857
	National hold		Majority	16,337	43.91	+33.38

Leadership elections

Luxon was elected leader of the National Party unopposed on 30 November 2021 after Simon Bridges withdrew from the race and endorsed him.