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Hon Paul Goldsmith

List Member National
Current MP

📋 Voting History by Policy

Bold entries are a conscience (personal) vote - Parliament lets MPs vote as individuals rather than along party lines on some bills, usually ones touching personal moral or social matters. The rest are ordinary party-line votes.

Supports
✓ Abortion rights ✓ Conversion therapy ban ✓ Gambling regulation ✓ Local control over pokie machine venues (gambling harm reduction) ✓ Looser broadcasting advertising rules ✓ Marriage equality
Opposes
✗ Assisted dying ✗ Easter alcohol sales ✗ Limiting appeals against Local Alcohol Policies (community control) ✗ Looser shop trading hours

📜 Bills introduced (9)

Whoever moved a bill's First Reading ("I move, that the ... be now read a first time") is reliably its sponsor/member in charge - found from the same "Moved by" data shown on each vote and debate page.

🏛️ Parliamentary terms (5)

Parliament Party Electorate Elected Vacated Election result
54 New Zealand National Party List 2023-10-14 — Epsom: 24.4% (9,684 votes, did not win)
53 New Zealand National Party List 2020-10-17 2023-10-13 List seat
52 New Zealand National Party List 2017-09-23 2020-10-16 List seat
51 New Zealand National Party List 2014-09-20 2017-09-22 List seat
50 New Zealand National Party List 2011-11-26 2014-09-19 List seat

🗳️ Votes (40)

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Date Question Voted
1 Apr 2026 Third Reading That the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Sales on Anzac Day Morning, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, and Christmas Day) Amendment Bill be now read a third time
Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Sales on Anzac Day Morning, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, and Christmas Day) Amendment Bill — Third Reading
✕ No
18 Feb 2026 That the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Sales on Anzac Day Morning, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, and Christmas Day) Amendment Bill be now read a second time
Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Sales on Anzac Day Morning, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, and Christmas Day) Amendment Bill — Second Reading
✕ No
14 Oct 2025 Third Reading 🗑️ Repeal That the Broadcasting (Repeal of Advertising Restrictions) Amendment Bill be now read a third time
Broadcasting (Repeal of Advertising Restrictions) Amendment Bill — Third Reading
✓ Aye
15 Jul 2025 That the Online Casino Gambling Bill be now read a first time
Online Casino Gambling Bill — First Reading
✓ Aye
9 Apr 2025 That the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Sales on Anzac Day Morning, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, and Christmas Day) Amendment Bill be now read a first time
Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Sales on Anzac Day Morning, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, and Christmas Day) Amendment Bill — First Reading
✕ No
18 Dec 2024 🗑️ Repeal That the Broadcasting (Repeal of Advertising Restrictions) Amendment Bill be now read a first time
Broadcasting (Repeal of Advertising Restrictions) Amendment Bill — First Reading
✓ Aye
17 Dec 2024 🛑 🗑️ Repeal That the Repeal of Good Friday and Easter Sunday as Restricted Trading Days (Shop Trading and Sale of Alcohol) Amendment Bill be now read a first time
Repeal of Good Friday and Easter Sunday as Restricted Trading Days (Shop Trading and Sale of Alcohol) Amendment Bill — First Reading
✕ No
31 Jul 2024 Third Reading That the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Winery Cellar Door Tasting) Amendment Bill be now read a third time
Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Winery Cellar Door Tasting) Amendment Bill — Third Reading
✓ Aye
8 May 2024 That the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Cellar Door Tasting) Amendment Bill be now read a second time
Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Cellar Door Tasting) Amendment Bill — Second Reading
✓ Aye
1 Aug 2023 That the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Cellar Door Tasting) Amendment Bill be now read a first time
Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Cellar Door Tasting) Amendment Bill — First Reading
✓ Aye
7 Jun 2023 Third Reading That the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Exemption for Race Meetings) Amendment Bill be now read a third time
Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Exemption for Race Meetings) Amendment Bill — Third Reading
✓ Aye
5 Apr 2023 🛑 That the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Harm Minimisation) Amendment Bill be now read a first time
Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Harm Minimisation) Amendment Bill — First Reading
✕ No
7 Dec 2022 That the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Exemption for Race Meetings) Amendment Bill be now read a second time
Thomas Cawthron Trust Amendment Bill — First Reading
✓ Aye
3 Aug 2022 🛑 🗑️ Repeal That the Repeal of Good Friday and Easter Sunday as Restricted Trading Days (Shop Trading and Sale of Alcohol) Amendment Bill be now read a first time
Repeal of Good Friday and Easter Sunday as Restricted Trading Days (Shop Trading and Sale of Alcohol) Amendment Bill — First Reading
✕ No
16 Mar 2022 Third Reading That the Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion (Safe Areas) Amendment Bill be now read a third time
Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion (Safe Areas) Amendment Bill — Third Reading
✓ Aye
15 Feb 2022 That the Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion (Safe Areas) Amendment Bill be now read a second time
Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion (Safe Areas) Amendment Bill — Second Reading
✓ Aye
15 Feb 2022 Third Reading That the Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Bill be now read a third time
Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Bill — Third Reading
✓ Aye
8 Feb 2022 That the Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Bill be now read a second time
Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Bill — Second Reading
✓ Aye
10 Mar 2021 That the Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion (Safe Areas) Amendment Bill be now read a first time
Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion (Safe Areas) Amendment Bill — First Reading
✓ Aye
18 Mar 2020 Third Reading That the Abortion Legislation Bill be now read a third time
Abortion Legislation Bill — Third Reading
✕ No
3 Mar 2020 That the Abortion Legislation Bill be now read a second time
Abortion Legislation Bill — Second Reading
✕ No
13 Nov 2019 Third Reading That the End of Life Choice Bill be now read a third time
End of Life Choice Bill — Third Reading
✕ No
8 Aug 2019 That the Abortion Legislation Bill be now read a first time
Abortion Legislation Bill — First Reading
✓ Aye
26 Jun 2019 That the End of Life Choice Bill be now read a second time
End of Life Choice Bill — Second Reading
✕ No
21 Feb 2018 That the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Renewal of Licences) Amendment Bill (No 2) be now read a first time and that Supplementary Order Paper 14 be referred to a select committee
Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Renewal of Licences) Amendment Bill (No 2) — First Reading
✕ No
31 Jan 2018 🛑 That the Misuse of Drugs (Medicinal Cannabis and Other Matters) Amendment Bill be now read a first time
Misuse of Drugs (Medicinal Cannabis and Other Matters) Amendment Bill — First Reading
✕ No
13 Dec 2017 That the End of Life Choice Bill be now read a first time
End of Life Choice Bill — First Reading
✕ No
25 Aug 2016 Third Reading That the Shop Trading Hours Amendment Bill be now read a third time
Shop Trading Hours Amendment Bill — Third Reading
✓ Aye
28 Jun 2016 That the Shop Trading Hours Amendment Bill be now read a second time
Shop Trading Hours Amendment Bill — Second Reading
✓ Aye
3 Nov 2015 That the Shop Trading Hours Amendment Bill be now read a first time
Shop Trading Hours Amendment Bill — First Reading
✓ Aye
12 Nov 2013 Third Reading That the New Zealand International Convention Centre Bill be now read a third time
New Zealand International Convention Centre Bill — Third Reading
✓ Aye
5 Nov 2013 That New Zealand International Convention Centre Bill be now read a second time
New Zealand International Convention Centre Bill — Second Reading
✓ Aye
4 Sep 2013 Third Reading That the Gambling (Gambling Harm Reduction) Amendment Bill be now read a third time
Gambling (Gambling Harm Reduction) Amendment Bill — Third Reading
✓ Aye
11 Jul 2013 That the New Zealand International Convention Centre Bill be now read a first time
New Zealand International Convention Centre Bill — First Reading
✓ Aye
10 Jul 2013 That the Gambling (Gambling Harm Reduction) Amendment Bill be now read a second time
Gambling (Gambling Harm Reduction) Amendment Bill — Second Reading
✓ Aye
17 Apr 2013 Third Reading That the Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill be now read a third time
Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill — Third Reading
✓ Aye
13 Mar 2013 That the Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill be now read a second time
Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill — Second Reading
✓ Aye
29 Aug 2012 That the Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill be now read a first time
Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill — First Reading
✓ Aye
27 Jun 2012 🛑 🗑️ Repeal That the Shop Trading Hours Act Repeal (Waitaki Easter Trading) Amendment Bill be now read a first time
Shop Trading Hours Act Repeal (Waitaki Easter Trading) Amendment Bill — First Reading
✓ Aye
9 May 2012 That the Gambling (Gambling Harm Reduction) Amendment Bill be now read a first time
Gambling (Gambling Harm Reduction) Amendment Bill — First Reading
✓ Aye

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