Who are the 35 new MPs headed to Wellington?

* This article has been updated to correct the number of MPs entering Parliament.The election night result points to 35 new MPs entering a 131-seat Parliament.That includes several new electorate MPs for National - which also lost high-performing frontbenchers Nicola Willis, Chris Bishop, Paul Goldsmith and outgoing Speaker Gerry Brownlee.It also includes a whole new party in Opportunity, a couple of new faces in the Māori seats and a bunch of new list MPs for the other minor parties.Some results are still close and could yet change after the final count expected on 27 November.NationalFor the first time, National secured more electorate seats than its share of the party vote, giving it a six-seat overhang.Those electorate wins included several new faces, ranked according to their list placing.Mahesh Muralidhar (Tāmaki): He has made history by becoming National's first Indian MP to win an electorate seat, defeating Labour's Max Harris and ACT's James Christmas.He is the chief executive of venture firm Phase One Ventures, which funds and supports start-ups. He was born in Kerala, India, and spent part of his childhood in Singapore, before moving to New Zealand in the '90s to attend high school.Katie Milne (West Coast-Tasman): A dairy farmer who previously served as Federated Farmers president. In 2015, she was named Fonterra's Dairy Woman of the Year and won the Women of Influence rural award.Milne won West Coast-Tasman, which had been vacated by the departure of National's Maureen Pugh, defeating Labour's Rory Paterson and former Buller Mayor Jamie Cleine of NZ First.Mahesh Muralidhar becomes National's first Indian MP to win an eloctorate seat.RNZ / Blessen TomBlair Cameron (Nelson): After narrowly losing Nelson to Labour's Rachel Boyack by just 26 votes after special votes and recounts at the last election, Cameron will feel more secure with a 1210-vote majority in 2026, despite Labour winning more party votes there.Now 35, he won scholarships to the United World College of Hong Kong and Brown University in Rhode Island, and has worked at Princeton University, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the Asian Development Bank.Emma Chatterton (Papakura): After serving as senior advisor to Erica Stanford in this term of Parliament, Chatterton was selected for the safe National seat vacated by party veteran Judith Collins' retirement.She has worked at former party leader Sir Bill English's ImpactLab analytics and charity support company, and is a skilled pianist.Lloyd Budd (Whangārei): Budd is born and raised in Whangārei, where he lives with his wife and two children. He has been a real estate agent for 25 years. Budd takes the safe National seat from Dr Shane Reti who has retired from politics.Matthew Paul (Port Waikato): After National incumbent Andrew Bayly chose not to return, the party selected this environmental consultant for the safe Port Waikato seat.Offered a chance to buy the tree-trimming business he was working for at age 23, Paul ran the business for eight years, before consulting on roading projects and tree protection.Jessica Rowe (Kaipara ki Mahurangi electorate): A former Newshub journalist, Rowe was selected to contest this north-of-Auckland electorate, after incumbent Chris Penk was demoted following the attempted leadership spill against leader Christopher Luxon in August and quite Parliament.She is also engaged to the head of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet Ben King - the couple have agreed not to discuss confidential information.OpportunityThe Opportunity Party is headed to Parliament as the first to secure a place in the House without either a former MP among its ranks or an electorate win that would negate the need to surpass the 5 percent threshold.Qiulae Wong: The leader who took Opportunity to Parliament - 10 years and three days after the party was founded - Wong has carefully maintained a clear purpose for the party to work with either the left or right bloc in the hopes of achieving more consensus.Jessica Hammond has run for Opportunity at every election it has contested.RNZ / Samuel RillstoneThe first Asian leader of a party in Parliament, she was born in Fiji, and studied law and politics, before working as a sustainable business consultant for brands like Vivienne Westwood and Stella McCartney, Kiwibank and Sharesies, and at consulting firm KPMG.Deputy leader Daniel Eb is joined by others on the list, including Jessica Hammond, who has run for Opportunity in every election it has contested, Kayla Kingdon-Bebb, Eden Skipper, Jodie Kuntzsch and Sarah Lucas.LabourLabour gained two more seats compared to the last election and also saw some movement in the electorates.Craig Renney (Wellington Bays): Ranked low on the list, Renney - previously Council of Trade Unions chief economist and policy director, and before that, a staffer who worked in Grant Robertson's office - will closely watch the special votes, with the Wellington Bays race coming down to just 140 votes on election night.George Hampton (Christchurch Central): The nephew of former Labour MP for Mana Dame Winnie Laban, Harvard and Columbia-educated Hampton took over from Chris Hipkins as a political advisor to Helen Clark in 2008 and was later a diplomat, becoming deputy ambassador to Austria.After spending summers selling raspberries from the boot of his car in his youth, he later worked for the United Nations on renewable energy policy, before moving back to New Zealand.Dominik Yanzick (Wigram): With Labour incumbent Megan Woods running as a list-only candidate this time around, technology consultant Yanzick - who previously campaigned for her - fended off a fierce campaign by National's Tracey Summerfield with a nearly 2000-vote margin.He's into hunting, diving and mountain biking, has an International Relations Masters degree, and has travelled to both Ukraine and the West Bank.Mananui Ramsden (Te Tai Tonga): Running for the electorate only, Mananui Ramsden (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Mamoe, Waitaha, Rangitāne, Raukawa, Tainui) reclaimed the largest electorate in the country from Te Pāti Māori-turned-independent MP Tākuta Ferris.Michael Wood (Mt Roskill): A former minister in Jacinda Ardern's government, Wood leads the incumbent - National's Carlos Cheung - by just 262 votes.File photo. Michael Wood is leading the National incumbent in Mt Roskill.RNZ / Samuel RillstoneHe resigned from Cabinet under Chris Hipkins' leadership before the 2023 election, after failing to declare and manage conflicts of interest over shares held in a family trust, despite being reminded to do so 16 times by the Cabinet Office.Chris Flatt, Kingi Kiriona and Rakesh Naidoo are also in on the list.Flatt - who unsuccessfully contested the Taupō seat - served as the Dairy Workers' Union national secretary and before that, the Labour Party's general secretary.Kiriona (Ngāti Ruanui, Ngā Rauru, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Kahungunu) is the founder of Māori education provider, TupuOra, a former journalist and the tutor of Waikato-based kapa haka, Te Iti Kahurangi. He contested Hauraki-Waikato which incumbent Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clark won in a landslide.Naidoo is a former police superintendent. His candidacy prompted public criticism from Police Commissioner Richard Chambers and Minister Mark Mitchell, with both claiming Naidoo should have declared his intentions earlier. An internal review later concluded that Naidoo had complied with police policy, though noted it would have been "prudent" for him to have given his superiors more advance warning.GreensDespite losing one electorate - Wellington Bays - to Labour, the Greens held onto Auckland Central and Wellington North, and their higher party vote upped their total number of seats to 16 on the night, bringing three new faces in from the list.New MPs include high-profile lawyer Tania Waikato, environmental scientist and former Canterbury Regional Councillor Craig Pauling, and organiser/advocate Rohan O'Neill-Stevens, who became Nelson's youngest ever city councillor in 2019 and went on to become deputy mayor.ACTACT also upped its party vote and walks away with 13 seats total, despite losing the Tāmaki seat to National.New Zealanders are already familiar with former broadcaster Paul Henry.He will be joined by public law specialist and former National candidate James Christmas, who was defeated by Muralidhar in Tāmaki, but comes in on the list, Hornby High principal and former Air Force leading airman Iain Murray, and intellectual property lawyer and computer scientist Antonia Modkova.New Zealand FirstNew Zealand First won no electorates, but secured a party-vote increase and will have 12 MPs in Parliament, with 9.8 percent of the vote - several of them returning to Parliament, after previous terms with National.Former All Blacks captain Taine Randell has found fresh challenge.© Photosport Ltd 2002 www.photosport.nzThese include former Pacific Peoples Minister Alfred Ngaro, who went on to lead the socially conservative Christian party NewZeal for the 2023 election, broadcaster and former National MP Michael Laws - who may not last long in Parliament, after leader Winston Peters denounced his comments about women in the Opportunity Party - and Harete Hipango-Brownlie, who has also been controversial in the past.Former Financial Markets Authority chair Craig Stobo will enter Parliament for the first time, along with former All Blacks captain Taine Randell.Te Pāti MāoriAperahama Edwards (Te Tai Tokerau): Te Pāti Māori was the big winner in the Māori seats, walking away with five electorates - its four sitting MPs and one new one.Ngātiwai Trust chief Edwards was removed from the public gallery of Parliament for interrupting debate over changes to the Marine and Coastal Areas Act last year, and removed the microphone during ACT leader David Seymour's Waitangi speech - twice - earlier in the same year.