48th New Zealand Parliament
Changes during parliamentary term

48th New Zealand Parliament

Section Title: Changes during parliamentary term
Table Section Text: None

Party	New MP	Term started	Seat	Previous MP

Green	Nándor Tánczos	6 November 2005	List	Rod Donald1

Labour	Charles Chauvel	1 August 2006	List	Jim Sutton

National	Katrina Shanks	7 February 2007	List	Don Brash

Labour	Lesley Soper	15 February 2007	List	Georgina Beyer

NZ First	Dail Jones	15 February 2008	List	Brian Donnelly2

Labour	Louisa Wall	4 March 2008	List	Ann Hartley

Labour	William Sio	29 March 2008	List	Dianne Yates

Green	Russel Norman	26 June 2008	List	Nándor Tánczos

National	(vacant)	31 August 2008	Rakaia	Brian Connell3

1 Rod Donald died before being sworn in as MP. 2 Brian Donnelly was appointed as New Zealand's High Commissioner to the Cook Islands.

Taito Phillip Field, Labour MP for Mangere, 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.

Sentence(s)

William Sio is in Labour's list.

final_sentence: William Sio is in Labour's list.