Steph Lewis

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Steph Lewis
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Lewis in 2023
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Whanganui
In office
17 October 2020 – 14 October 2023
Preceded byHarete Hipango
Succeeded byCarl Bates
Personal details
Born1987 or 1988 (age 37–38)
Whanganui, New Zealand[1]
PartyLabour
SpouseRob Carr
Children2[2]

Stephanie Lewis (born 1987 or 1988)[3] is a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. She served as the Member of Parliament for Whanganui from 2020 to 2023.

Personal life

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Lewis grew up in Whanganui and Waverley. She attended Whanganui City College and Victoria University of Wellington, where she studied law.[4] In 2004 she was a member of the New Zealand Youth Parliament, selected to represent Whanganui MP Jill Pettis.[5]

Lewis worked at the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) where she also became a trade union delegate. She later worked for the Privacy Commissioner.[4] Lewis is married to Rob Carr, who was a senior ministerial adviser to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.[6][7]

In February 2022, while she was pregnant, Lewis was harassed by anti-COVID vaccine mandate protestors outside Parliament, who threatened to lynch and kidnap her.[8]

Political career

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New Zealand Parliament
Years Term Electorate List Party
2020–2023 53rd Whanganui 55 Labour

Lewis won the Labour Party nomination for Whanganui in 2017 ahead of district councillor Philippa Baker-Hogan and moved from Wellington back to Whanganui to campaign full time.[9] Lewis was re-selected as Labour's candidate for Whanganui in the 2020 election. She was elected a week before Labour's annual conference, which was held in Whanganui for the first time in the party's history.[10]

Early returns in the 2020 general election placed her ahead of incumbent National Party MP Harete Hipango,[11] and she was declared the winner on 18 October 2020 with a majority of approximately 6,800 votes based on preliminary results.[12][13] Following the release of the final results on 6 November, Lewis' majority increased to 8,191 votes.[14]

During the 2023 New Zealand general election, Lewis was unseated by National candidate Carl Bates, who won by a margin of 5,512 votes.[15]

References

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