Labour
Based only on formal party votes, not personal (conscience) votes, since there's no single party line on those. "Mixed" means Labour came down on both sides of the same policy within that term - e.g. voting for a bill, then later for its repeal.
54th Parliament — Dec 2023 to Sep 2026
Supported
- Reducing regulatory barriers for agricultural chemical and veterinary medicine approvals
- Treaty of Waitangi references in legislation
- Segregation of high-risk prisoners
- Lowering tariffs
- Free trade agreements
- Free trade agreement with India
- English as an official language
- Tightening immigration settings
- Three Waters
- Looser broadcasting advertising rules
- Collective bargaining rights
- Crackdown on loan sharks and predatory lenders
- Equal pay for women
- Treaty of Waitangi principles in legislation
- Māori local government wards
- Group detention powers for mass arrivals
- Regional fuel tax (Auckland)
- Smokefree generation (never legally sell tobacco to)
- Increasing benefit payments
- Fair Pay Agreements (sectoral bargaining)
- Subsidising EV and low-emission vehicle purchases
Opposed
- Expanding police surveillance and recording powers
- Refocusing councils on core services (removing the "four well-beings")
- Police power to issue move-on orders for begging and rough sleeping
- Youth justice military-style academies ("boot camps")
- Family carers as unpaid support rather than paid employees
- Reducing the accommodation supplement for homeowners
- Parental income test for young people on the unemployment benefit
- Blocking tort lawsuits against climate emitters
- Easing firearms licensing and dealership rules
- Banning gang members from firearms licences
- Fast-track approvals for infrastructure and mining projects
- Expanding charter schools
- Regulatory Standards Bill (regulatory quality requirements)
- Less red tape for mining industry
- Making access to sickness/incapacity benefits harder
- Tightening welfare benefit obligations and sanctions
- Streamlined shooting club and range regulation
- Three strikes mandatory sentencing
- Loosening freshwater rules under the RMA
- Extending firearms prohibition order powers
- Expanded firearms prohibition orders (warrantless search powers)
- Lowering taxes
- Lowering income tax rates
- Removing/exempting GST from food
- Extending 90-day trial periods to all employers
53rd Parliament — Nov 2020 to Aug 2023
Supported
- Limiting appeals against Local Alcohol Policies (community control)
- Three Waters
- Less red tape for mining industry
- Group detention powers for mass arrivals
- Smokefree generation (never legally sell tobacco to)
- COVID-19 emergency and lockdown powers
- Subsidising EV and low-emission vehicle purchases
- Fair Pay Agreements (sectoral bargaining)
- Bank and insurer conduct regulation (fair treatment of consumers)
- Equal pay for women
- Māori local government wards
- Abortion rights
- Conversion therapy ban
- COVID-19 vaccine mandates
- Doubling minimum paid sick leave
- Raising taxes
- Raising income tax rates
Opposed
Mixed
None tagged
52nd Parliament — Nov 2017 to Sep 2020
Supported
- Tightening firearms licensing, registration and club/range rules (post-Christchurch reforms)
- COVID-19 emergency and lockdown powers
- Bank and insurer conduct regulation (fair treatment of consumers)
- Zero Carbon Act (net zero by 2050 target)
- Increasing benefit payments
- Semi-automatic firearms ban
- Collective bargaining rights
- Equal pay for women
- Regional fuel tax (Auckland)
- Raising taxes
Opposed
Mixed
None tagged
51st Parliament — Oct 2014 to Aug 2017
50th Parliament — Dec 2011 to Jul 2014
Supported
- Crackdown on loan sharks and predatory lenders
- Collective bargaining rights
- Regulating how shares, bonds and managed funds are sold
- Mondayising Waitangi Day and ANZAC Day
- Alcohol law reform (Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012)
- Tightening military-style semi-automatic firearm import controls
- Treaty of Waitangi reference in the MPs' oath
Opposed
49th Parliament — Dec 2008 to Oct 2011
Supported
- Expanding police surveillance and recording powers
- Alcohol law reform (Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012)
- Removing/exempting GST from food
- Ethical investment requirements for Crown financial institutions
- Crackdown on loan sharks and predatory lenders
- Restricting prisoner compensation payouts (redirect to victims)
- Māori local government wards
- Emissions Trading Scheme (carbon pricing on emissions)
- Immigration Act 2009 (visa, entry and deportation framework)
- Raising alcohol purchase age
- Extended supervision for sex offenders
Opposed
Mixed
None tagged
48th Parliament — Nov 2005 to Sep 2008
Supported
- Emissions Trading Scheme (carbon pricing on emissions)
- Minimum wage increases
- Election spending restrictions
- Flexible working arrangements rights
- Repeal of sedition laws
- Immigration Act 2009 (visa, entry and deportation framework)
- Māori local government wards
- Lowering company tax rate
- Lowering taxes
- Banning corporal punishment of children
- Employment rights for disabled workers (sheltered workshops)
- Māori-specific provisions exemption (Human Rights Act)
- Marriage equality
Opposed
47th Parliament — Feb 2003 to Aug 2005
Supported
- Nuclear-free zone (ship visits)
- Banning corporal punishment of children
- Restricting prisoner compensation payouts (redirect to victims)
- Private property rights in Bill of Rights
- Flexible working arrangements rights
- Extended paid parental leave
- Restricting non-therapeutic tail docking of dogs
- Collective bargaining rights
- Extended supervision for sex offenders
- Working for Families assistance
- Employment rights for disabled workers (sheltered workshops)
- Clean slate for old convictions
- Smokefree workplaces
- Gambling regulation
- Minimum wage increases
- Increased minimum annual leave (four weeks)
Opposed
Mixed
None tagged