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Elections / 2026 / Port Waikato / Matt Brachi
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2026 general election
Standing for Port Waikato

Matt Brachi

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Electorate only
Source
elections-wikipedia
As of
9 Jun 2026

Background

Research run #204 · 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.

Matt Brachi is, according to a single secondary source, a National Party list MP [11].

According to a single secondary source, Brachi was educated at the University of Auckland [10]. His earlier career included roles outside of politics and education: he is reported to have worked as an Auckland Service Controller at Gilbarco Veeder-Root from 2004 [3], and subsequently as an Account Manager at the Newspaper Advertising Bureau from 2007 [2]. He then moved to Action Media, where he is reported to have held the role of Account Manager from 2009 [1], before transitioning to Operations Manager at the same organisation from 2010 [4].

Brachi is also recorded, according to a single secondary source, as having worked as a teacher [9]. He is reported to have taught at Opaheke School from 2016 [5], at Papakura Intermediate School from 2021 [6], and at Pukekohe High School, with one source indicating a role there from 2023 [8] and another source citing an undated period at the same school [7].

A single secondary source lists Brachi's party affiliation as Labour [12], though a separate single secondary source records him as a National Party list MP [11]. These two claims are in direct conflict and neither has been independently verified, so readers should treat both with caution.

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.
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Education

Career

  • [1]
    Prior career: Account Manager at Action Media (from 2009). unverified
  • [2]
    Prior career: Account Manager at Newspaper Advertising Bureau (from 2007). unverified
  • [3]
    Prior career: Auckland Service Controller at Gilbarco Veeder-Root (from 2004). unverified
  • [4]
    Prior career: Operations Manager at Action Media (from 2010). unverified
  • [5]
    Prior career: Teacher at Opaheke School (from 2016). unverified
  • [6]
    Prior career: Teacher at Papakura Intermediate School (from 2021). unverified
  • [8]
    Prior career: Teacher at Pukekohe High School (from 2023). unverified
  • [8]
    Prior career: Teacher at Pukekohe High School. unverified
  • [9]
    Prior career: teacher. unverified

Political offices

  • [11]
    Held the office of National Party list MP. unverified

Party affiliation

Looked for, not found

  • No public record found of Matt Brachi's specific University of Auckland degree or qualification name — only that he holds a degree from the University of Auckland (sourced from LinkedIn/Topline snippets).
  • Port Waikato 2023 electorate-level candidate vote tallies for Matt Brachi not extractable from official results pages (page content did not render verifiable claims).
  • No public record found of Matt Brachi's 2023 general election result in Port Waikato (individual candidate vote count) from a fetchable source — National Party won the seat.

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.