Election 2023: Youngest-ever MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke in shock at winning Hauraki-Waikato seat

Some of the biggest shocks in the election have come from the Māori electorates.

Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke has become the youngest-ever MP at 21, ousting long-serving Labour Minister Nanaia Mahuta.

They call it a movement and last night Te Pāti Māori made plenty of moves - not only on the dance floor, but in many of the Māori electorates.

Co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer won Te Tai Hauāuru.

"[I'm] excited, overwhelmed, exhausted and ready," she told Newshub.

Ready because they've got a battle ahead back in Opposition, but up against a potential coalition that has vastly different views.

"We're up against political leaders who have called us bottom-feeders, who have told us they want a referendum on Te Tiriti [o Waitangi], who have told and shown the world they don't value our role as tangata whenua. So we know what we're up against," Ngarewa-Packer told Newshub.

Co-leader Rawiri Waititi is back too after wiping the floor in Waiāriki.

And joining them is Tākuta Ferris who knocked out Labour's Rino Tirikatene - a minister who has served Te Tai Tonga for more than a decade.

Arguably the biggest upset though is in Hauraki-Waikato.

Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke is now the youngest MP ever at just 21, and she wasn't expecting it.

"Nope, not at all!"

That's because she has unseated a juggernaut.

The four Te Pāti Māori candidates who won their electorates: Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke (top-left), Debbie Ngarewa-Packer (top-right), Rawiri Waititi (bottom-left), and Tākuta Ferris (bottom-right).
The four Te Pāti Māori candidates who won their electorates: Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke (top-left), Debbie Ngarewa-Packer (top-right), Rawiri Waititi (bottom-left), and Tākuta Ferris (bottom-right).

"I've been voted out… I've been voted out, and I accept the outcome because it's a democratic outcome," former Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta told Newshub.

Mahuta is out of Parliament altogether after 27 years.

"I've got no regrets. I've done the best that I could when I could, in the way I knew how to and I leave knowing that I've made a difference," she added.

Fellow senior ministers Kelvin Davis in Te Tai Tokerau and Peeni Henare in Tāmaki Makaurau are holding on to their seats by just a few hundred votes, with the specials still to come.

The only Māori seat Labour has won convincingly is Ikaroa-Rāwhiti.

Cushla Tangaere-Manuel beat the wahine she took over from - Meka Whaitiri - who defected.

"Congratulations," Whaitiri said to Tangaere-Manuel upon hearing the results.

But Te Pāti Māori isn't congratulating the Electoral Commission.

"The way Māori voters are treated at booths is just unacceptable," said party CEO John Tamihere.

He claimed whānau were turned away from booths because they were closed or ran out of enrolment forms and ballot papers.

The Electoral Commission says, as always, a review will take place.

But for now, Te Pāti Māori is celebrating its bigger voice in Parliament after its biggest support in the party's history.