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2005 New Zealand Parliament – changes - changes during the term parliamentary term
Template:Party name with colourTemplate:Party name with colourTemplate:Party name with colourTemplate:Party name with colourTemplate:Party name with colourTemplate:Party name with colourTemplate:Party name with colourTemplate:Party name with colourTemplate:Party name with colour| Party | New MP | Term started | Seat | Previous MP | |
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| Nándor Tánczos | 6 November 2005 | List | Rod Donald1 | ||
| Charles Chauvel | 1 August 2006 | List | Jim Sutton | ||
| Katrina Shanks | 7 February 2007 | List | Don Brash | ||
| Lesley Soper | 15 February 2007 | List | Georgina Beyer | ||
| Dail Jones | 15 February 2008 | List | Brian Donnelly2 | ||
| Louisa Wall | 4 March 2008 | List | Ann Hartley | ||
| William Sio | 29 March 2008 | List | Dianne Yates | ||
| Russel Norman | 26 June 2008 | List | Nándor Tánczos | ||
| (vacant) | 31 August 2008 | Rakaia | Brian Connell3 | ||
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1 Rod Donald died before being sworn in as MP. | |||||
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Taito Phillip Field, Labour MP for Māngere, quit the Labour party after being threatened with expulsion on 16 February 2007. He continued to serve as an MP, and formed the New Zealand Pacific Party in January 2008. Gordon Copeland, a United Future list MP, left the party to become an independent MP in May 2007, and contested the 2008 election as a candidate for The Kiwi Party. | |||||