New Zealand’s Youngest MP is Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke.

Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke was born in 2002. She is a New Zealand politician, representing Te Pāti Māori as a Member of Parliament since the 2023 New Zealand general election. She is the youngest MP. Maipi-Clarke’s heritage includes Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou, Te Āti Awa, and Ngāi Tahu. Her father is Potaka Maipi, a broadcaster. She is the grand-niece of Māori language campaigner Hana Te Hemara. Taitimu Maipi, her grandpa was an activist who helped to remove the Captain Hamilton statue in 2020. Wi Katene, the first Māori MP appointed to the Executive Council was her great-great-great-grandfather.

Maipi-Clarke completed her schooling at Te Wharekura o Rākaumangamanga in Huntly. She wrote Maahina a book about the Māori lunar calendar at the age of 17. Rangi Mātāmua’s speech about Matariki led her to conduct a study on the issue. In 2023, she trained the New Zealand Warriors in maramataka and Matariki. During the 2023 general election held on 14 October, Maipi-Clarke unseated incumbent Labour MP Nanaia Mahuta by a margin of 2,911 votes. At the age of 21 years, Clarke became the youngest member of Parliament in New Zealand in 170 years.

Maipi-Clarke became a member of Parliament’s Māori affairs select committee by mid-December 2023. She also became the spokesman for Te Pāti Māori’s Māori development, rangatahi (young people), Māori language, agriculture, food sovereignty, sports and recreation, conservation, food safety, biosecurity and customs.