Member of Parliament
| Parliament of New Zealand | ||||
| Years | Term | Electorate | List | Party |
| 1981–1984 | 40th | Mt Albert | Labour | |
| 1984–1987 | 41st | Mt Albert | Labour | |
| 1987–1990 | 42nd | Mt Albert | Labour | |
| 1990–1993 | 43rd | Mt Albert | Labour | |
| 1993–1996 | 44th | Mt Albert | Labour | |
| 1996–1999 | 45th | Owairaka | 1 | Labour |
| 1999–2002 | 46th | Mt Albert | 1 | Labour |
| 2002–2005 | 47th | Mt Albert | 1 | Labour |
| 2005–2008 | 48th | Mt Albert | 1 | Labour |
| 2008–2009 | 49th | Mt Albert | 1 | Labour |
Helen Clark first gained election to the New Zealand House of Representatives in the 1981 general election as one of four women who entered Parliament on that occasion. In winning the Mount Albert electorate in Auckland, she became the second woman elected to represent an Auckland electorate, and the seventeenth woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament. At the 2005 general election Clark won 66% of the electorate votes, or 20,918 votes with a 14,749 majority. During her first term in the House (1981–1984), she became a member of the Statutes Revision Committee. In her second term (1984–1987), she chaired the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Select Committee on Disarmament and Arms Control, both of which combined with the Defence Select Committee in 1985 to form a single committee.
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