Helen Clark elected Prime Minister
- When
- 27 November 1999
- Where
- Wellington · Te Whanganui-a-Tara
- Reach
- Nationwide
Labour returned in coalition, closing the century with the first woman elected to the office rather than appointed to it.
Clark’s government reversed parts of the 1990s settlement — reintroducing income-related state house rents, a state bank and paid parental leave — while keeping the broad macroeconomic framework of the reforms. It governed for nine years. Her election is a natural end point for this map: the arguments of the 1980s had settled into a new consensus, and Treaty settlements had become routine business of state.
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