Megan Cherie Woods was born on 4 November 1973 and is a New Zealand Labour Party politician who serves as a Cabinet Minister in the Sixth Labour Government and has served as Member of Parliament for Wigram since 2011.
17 Facts About Megan Woods
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Megan Woods was a member of the Alliance Party from 1999 until 2002, when she joined the breakaway Progressive Party.
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Megan Woods was involved in several of Jim Anderton's re-election campaigns.
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Megan Woods contested the Christchurch Central electorate in the 2005 general election and came fourth, receiving 1077 votes.
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Megan Woods was placed fourth on the Progressive party list.
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Megan Woods was a member of the Spreydon-Heathcote community board in Christchurch from 2004 to 2007.
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Megan Woods did not contest the 2008 general election or the 2010 mayoral election.
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Megan Woods was selected as the Labour candidate for the 2011 election in the Wigram electorate.
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Megan Woods succeeded Jim Anderton, who had announced that he would retire either after winning the Christchurch mayoralty or at the end of the term of the 49th Parliament in November 2011.
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Megan Woods was a key member of Anderton's campaign committee, along with key Progressive Party members like Jeanette Lawrence and Liz Maunsell, and Labour activists such as campaign manager Tony Milne, Ben Ross and Liana Foster.
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Anderton remained an MP until the end of the term of the 49th Parliament, and Megan Woods won in the 2011 general election in the Wigram electorate.
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Megan Woods won re-election in the 2014 election with an increased majority.
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Megan Woods was previously Labour Party's spokesperson for the Environment and Climate Change and has served prior as the Party's spokesperson for Tertiary Education and associate spokesperson for Science and Innovation.
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Megan Woods was elected as a Cabinet Minister by the Labour Party caucus following Labour's formation of a coalition government with New Zealand First and the Greens.
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On 27 June 2019, in Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's first major reshuffle of the coalition government, Megan Woods was appointed Minister of Housing, replacing Phil Twyford.
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On 19 June 2020, Megan Woods was given joint responsibility with Air Commodore Darryn Webb for overseeing isolation and quarantine facilities for travellers entering New Zealand, as part of the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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In late February 2021, Megan Woods defended the Government's Progressive Home Ownership Scheme, which had cost NZ$17 million but only resettled 12 families in the last seven months.