Winston Peters

**Winston Raymond Peters**  (born 11 April 1945) is a New Zealand politician who is the   Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2023. He served as Deputy Prime Minister from 1996 to 1998 and again from 2017 to 2020 and again from 2023 to 2025. He served under a coalition government alongside Jacinda Ardern upon the 2017 election.

Peters led the populist New Zealand First party since 1993. He was a Member of Parliament from 2011 to 2020, having served from 1979 to 1981 and 1984 to 2008.

Peters was not in Parliament between 2020 and 2023. But, was re-elected in the 2023 general election, where his New Zealand First Party won 8 seats. Peters will be co-deputy prime minister from the swearing in of the 54th Parliament of New Zealand to the 31st of May 2025.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific-prefix**: The Right Honourable
- **name**: Winston Peters
- **honorific-suffix**: Member of parliament, MP
- **image**: Winston_Peters_in_2024_(cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Peters in 2024
- **office**: 13th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand
- **primeminister**: Christopher Luxon
- **1namedata**: Cindy Kiro
- **term start**: 27 November 2023
- **term end**: 31 May 2025
- **predecessor**: Carmel Sepuloni
- **successor**: David Seymour
- **primeminister1**: Jacinda Ardern
- **1namedata1**: Patsy Reddy
- **term start1**: 26 October 2017
- **term end1**: 6 November 2020
- **predecessor1**: Paula Bennett
- **successor1**: Grant Robertson
- **primeminister2**: Jim Bolger
Jenny Shipley
- **1namedata2**: Michael Hardie Boys
- **term start2**: 16 December 1996
- **term end2**: 14 August 1998
- **predecessor2**: Don McKinnon
- **successor2**: Wyatt Creech
- **office3**: 25th Minister of Foreign Affairs (New Zealand), Minister of Foreign Affairs
- **primeminister3**: Christopher Luxon
- **term start3**: 27 November 2023
- **predecessor3**: Grant Robertson
- **primeminister4**: Jacinda Ardern
- **term start4**: 26 October 2017
- **term end4**: 6 November 2020
- **predecessor4**: Gerry Brownlee
- **successor4**: Nanaia Mahuta
- **primeminister5**: Helen Clark
- **term start5**: 19 October 2005
- **term end5**: 29 August 2008
- **predecessor5**: Phil Goff
- **successor5**: Murray McCully
- **office6**: Leader of New Zealand First
- **president6**: Doug Woolerton
Dail Jones
George Groombridge
Kevin Gardener
Anne Martin
Brent Catchpole
- **deputy6**: Tau Henare
Peter Brown (New Zealand politician), Peter Brown
Tracey Martin
Ron Mark
Fletcher Tabuteau
- **term start6**: 18 July 1993
- **predecessor6**: _Office established_
- **office7**: 1st New Zealand Treasury, Treasurer of New Zealand
- **primeminister7**: Jim Bolger
Jenny Shipley
- **term start7**: 16 December 1996
- **term end7**: 14 August 1998
- **predecessor7**: _Office established_
- **successor7**: Bill Birch
- **office8**: 35th Minister for Māori Development, Minister of Māori Affairs
- **primeminister8**: Jim Bolger
- **term start8**: 2 November 1990
- **term end8**: 1 October 1991
- **predecessor8**: Koro Wētere
- **successor8**: Doug Kidd
- **office9**: Member of the New Zealand Parliament
- **term start9**: 14 October 2023
- **constituency9**: New Zealand First Party lists in the 2023 New Zealand general election#New Zealand First, List
- **term start10**: 23 September 2017
- **term end10**: 17 October 2020
- **constituency10**: New Zealand First Party lists in the New Zealand general election, 2017#New Zealand First, List
- **term start11**: 28 March 2015
- **term end11**: 23 September 2017
- **predecessor11**: Mike Sabin
- **successor11**: Matt King (politician), Matt King
- **constituency12**: New Zealand First Party lists in the New Zealand general election, 2011#New Zealand First, List
- **term start12**: 26 November 2011
- **term end12**: 28 March 2015
- **term start13**: 17 September 2005
- **term end13**: 3 October 2008
- **constituency13**: New Zealand First Party lists in the New Zealand general election, 2005#New Zealand First Party, List
- **term start14**: 17 July 1984
- **term end14**: 17 September 2005
- **predecessor14**: Keith Allen (politician), Keith Allen
- **successor14**: Bob Clarkson
- **constituency14**: Tauranga (New Zealand electorate), Tauranga
- **term start15**: 24 May 1979
- **term end15**: 28 November 1981
- **predecessor15**: Malcolm Douglas (politician), Malcolm Douglas
- **successor15**: Colin Moyle
- **constituency15**: Hunua (New Zealand electorate), Hunua
- **birth name**: Wynston Raymond Peters
- **birth place**: Whangarei, New Zealand
- **party**: New Zealand National Party, National
New Zealand First
- **children**: 2
- **relatives**: Jim Peters (politician), Jim
Ian Peters, Ian
- **alma mater**: University of Auckland
- **signature**: Winston Peters Signature.jpg