David Cunliffe

The Honourable David Cunliffe QSO
34th Leader of the Opposition
In office 15 September 2013 – 27 September 2014
Prime Minister	John Key
Deputy	David Parker
Preceded by	David Shearer
Succeeded by	Andrew Little
15th Leader of the Labour Party
In office 15 September 2013 – 27 September 2014
Deputy	David Parker
Preceded by	David Shearer
Succeeded by	Andrew Little
37th Minister of Health
In office 31 October 2007 – 19 November 2008
Prime Minister	Helen Clark
Preceded by	Pete Hodgson
Succeeded by	Tony Ryall
51st Minister of Immigration
In office 19 October 2005 – 11 November 2007
Prime Minister	Helen Clark
Preceded by	Paul Swain
Succeeded by	Clayton Cosgrove
Minister of Communications and Information Technology
In office 15 August 2002 – 19 November 2008
Prime Minister	Helen Clark
Preceded by	Paul Swain
Succeeded by	Steven Joyce
Member of Parliament for New Lynn Titirangi (1999–2002)
In office 27 November 1999 – 23 April 2017
Preceded by	Electorate re-established
Succeeded by	Deborah Russell
Personal details
Born	David Richard Cunliffe (1963-04-30) 30 April 1963 (age 61) Te Aroha, New Zealand
Political party	Labour
Spouse	Karen Price (1984–2015)[1]
Relations	Richard Seddon (great-great uncle)
Children	2
Alma mater	University of Otago Massey University Harvard University

David Richard Cunliffe QSO (born 30 April 1963) is a New Zealand management consultant and former politician who was Leader of the New Zealand Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from September 2013 to September 2014. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Titirangi and then New Lynn for the Labour Party between 1999 and 2017. He served as the Minister of Health, Minister for Communications and Information Technology and Minister of Immigration for the Fifth Labour Government of New Zealand from October 2007 until November 2008.

After the defeat of the Labour Party in the 2008 general election, and the resignation of Helen Clark as the party leader, Cunliffe was appointed the party's finance spokesman and number three on the front bench.^[2] After Labour lost the 2011 general election and Phil Goff stood down as party leader, Cunliffe ran for the leadership, but narrowly lost to David Shearer.

On 26 August 2013, Cunliffe announced a second leadership bid after David Shearer's departure from the leadership and was elected on 15 September 2013. Following Labour's defeat at the general election in September 2014, he resigned as leader of the Labour Party.^[3]