TDB Green Party top 15 list
The Green Party Delegate List is the staffers and woke apparatchiks choices and by the likes of it, there are lots of Māori woman who didn’t want to join the Māori Party (and couldn’t wait 30 years to get anywhere inside Labour), who have thrown in their ambition with the Greens.
Hilariously they have literally squeezed any heteronormative white cis males out of the Top 10…
The Green Party’s Delegate List for the 2026 election is:
1. Marama Davidson
2. Chlöe Swarbrick
3. Teanau Tuiono
4. Tamatha Paul
5. Julie Anne Genter
6. Hūhana Melanie Lyndon
7. Lawrence Xu-Nan
8. Lan Pham
9. Ricardo Menéndez March
10. Francisco Hernandez
11. Kahurangi Carter
12. Craig Aaron Pauling
13. Bhen Goodsir
14. Steve Abel
15. Tania Waikato
16. Scott Willis
17. Rohan O’Neill-Stevens
18. Yasmine Serhan
19. Heather Hinemoa Te Au-Skipworth
20. Louise Hutt
21. Shreejan Pandey
22. Mike Davidson
23. Asher Wilson-Goldman
24. Zephyr Brown
25. Angela Dalton
26. Josh Jacobsen
27. Lauren Craig
28. Carl Morgan
29. Nathan Hoturoa Gray
30. Te Whatanui Kipa Leka Taumalolo Skipwith
31. Alika Wells
32. Courtney White
33. Awhi Haenga
34. Pamela Grealey
35. Alma de Anda
36. Chris Norton
37. Melody Willis
This initial List will now be put to a vote of all members of the Green Party, who will be given the opportunity to choose this ranking, or rank candidates in their preferred order.
The problem here I think is that you quickly come up against the, ‘There’s only so many Emily Writes” principle of NZ Politics which states woke market saturation doesn’t gain any more voters before they start alienating other voters, hence, ‘There’s only so many Emily Writes” principle.
Currently the Greens have the woke market of furious feminists cornered and they actually need to win back white males, but they won’t hear a word of that analysis.
I’m genuinely surprised Ricardo and Steve Able have dropped as they have been star performers this year.
For what it’s worth here are TDBs Top 10 that Green Members should select based on our reading of genuine talent and capacity.
11. Lawrence Xu-Nan
12. Francisco Hernandez
13. Lan Pham
14. Mike Davidson
15. Heather Te Au Skipworth
Do they have any heteronormative white cis males as party members? If they are not rushing to join the Greens you can be sure they won’t be rushing to vote for them either. They had some integrity a decade or so ago when there was an environmental focus but now it seems that social engineering is their focus with being green just convenient for name recognition.
Labour’s and hence, New Zealand’s problem, are the current Greens – nothing like the Donald, Fitzsimons, Hughes days. Opportunity Party offers the better progressive alternative. You are right, Martyn, the centre left/left are too woke and that’s TURNED OFF the center-left, progressive environmental, hard-worker, socially accountable etc type male and the centrist swing voter who don’t want a bar of the angry feminist type. Wonder what the progressive center/center-left woman thinks?
I agree about Ricardo and Steve Able.