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Elections / 2020 / Waimakariri / Dan Rosewarne
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2020 general election
Standing for Waimakariri

Dan Rosewarne

Labour Party // List #56
Kind
Electorate & list
Source
elections-wikipedia
As of
4 May 2026

Background

Research run #212 · 10 Jun 2026
Every claim below traces to a verbatim quote in the cited source. Click any footnote [1] in the prose, or expand the citation index below, to see where the fact came from.

Dan Rosewarne is a New Zealand Labour Party list Member of Parliament [27][28], who entered Parliament in 2022 [19].

Before entering politics, Rosewarne served in the New Zealand Defence Force [8], having begun his military career as a mechanic in the New Zealand Army [5]. According to a single reputable secondary source, he also served as a soldier with deployments to Afghanistan and the Solomon Islands [11]. He is also reported to have held officer rank within the New Zealand Defence Force [4][6], though these details are drawn from single secondary sources.

Rosewarne studied at Victoria University of Wellington [14] and attended the New Zealand Defence Force Advanced Command and Staff College [13]. According to a single reputable secondary source, he holds a Master of Strategic Studies [1].

He stood as the Labour candidate for the Waimakariri electorate in 2020 [16] and again in 2023 [15], and according to a single reputable secondary source, is a candidate for Waimakariri in 2026 [23]. He has been a member of the Labour Party throughout his parliamentary career [27][28].

Rosewarne has served as a confirmed Member of Parliament since 2022 [19]. According to a single reputable secondary source, he was sworn in as a list MP on 24 March 2026 following the resignation of Hon Peeni Henare [25].

Generated 16 Jun 2026 · model claude-sonnet-4-6
AI-generated biography. Assembled by an LLM from public sources (Wikipedia, parliament register, Beehive, news archives). Every claim is backed by a verbatim quote in one of the cited sources below and tagged confirmed, unverified, or disputed by corroboration. Use as a starting reference, not a final source — cross-check anything load-bearing.
7 confirmed 21 unverified 0 disputed
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Education

Career

Political offices

  • [19]
    Held the office of Member of Parliament (from 2022).
  • [15]
    Held the office of Labour Party candidate for Waimakariri (from 2023). unverified
  • [16]
    Held the office of Labour candidate for Waimakariri (from 2020). unverified
  • [18]
    Held the office of List MP (from 2022). unverified
  • [18]
    Held the office of List MP. unverified
  • [20]
    Held the office of Member of Parliament (Labour Party list) (from March 2026). unverified
  • [21]
    Held the office of Member of Parliament (List MP) under Labour (from 2022). unverified
  • [22]
    Held the office of Member of Parliament (list MP). unverified
  • [23]
    Held the office of candidate for Waimakariri (from 2026). unverified
  • [24]
    Held the office of list MP (sworn in following resignation of Hon Peeni Henare) (from 24 March 2026). unverified
  • [25]
    Held the office of list MP (sworn into Parliament following resignation of Hon Peeni Henare) (from 24 March 2026). unverified
  • [26]
    Held the office of list Member of Parliament. unverified

Party affiliation

Looked for, not found

  • No pecuniary interests or directorships recorded in Alitheia's local data for Dan Rosewarne.
  • Specific rank details and precise dates of NZDF deployments (Afghanistan, Solomon Islands) not confirmed through a verbatim-extractable source.

The agent checked these topics across the allowed public sources but could not find verbatim-quotable evidence. Absence doesn't rule the fact out — it just means no journalist-accessible source covered it at run time.

Recent press

12 articles across 6 outlets
RNZ 6
1News 2
Newsroom 1
Otago Daily Times 1
The Spinoff 1
Stuff 1