Member of Parliament
| Parliament of New Zealand | ||||
| Years | Term | Electorate | List | Party |
| 1996–1999 | 45th | List | 20 | Labour |
| 1999–2002 | 46th | List | 16 | Labour |
| 2002–2004 | 47th | Te Tai Hauāuru | None | Labour |
| 2004–2005 | 47th | Te Tai Hauāuru | Māori | |
| 2005–2008 | 48th | Te Tai Hauāuru | 1 | Māori |
| 2008–2011 | 49th | Te Tai Hauāuru | 1 | Māori |
| 2011 – present | 50th | Te Tai Hauāuru | 7 | Māori |
Turia entered the New Zealand Parliament in the 1996 election as a list MP for the Labour Party, ranking 20th on the party list. In the 1999 election, she remained a list MP, but ranked sixteenth. In the 2002 election, however, she contested the Te Tai Hauauru Māori electorate, and opted not to place herself on the party list at all. Te Tai Hauauru (roughly, the Māori voters of the west of the North Island) returned her as their member of parliament.
Although never a member of Cabinet, Turia has held a number of non-Cabinet ministerial roles. From Labour's electoral victory in 1999, she served as Associate Minister of Māori Affairs, Associate Minister of Social Services and Employment, Associate Minister of Health, and Associate Minister of Housing. In 2002, she also became Associate Minister of Corrections. After the formation of the Labour-Progressive coalition in 2002, she dropped the Corrections role and gained full ministerial rank as Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector.
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