Damien O'Connor

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Parl.	Electorate	List Pos.	Party
44th	West Coast-Tasman	n/a	Labour
45th	West Coast-Tasman	32	Labour
46th	West Coast-Tasman	none	Labour
47th	West Coast-Tasman	none	Labour
48th	West Coast-Tasman	none	Labour

Damien Peter O'Connor is a New Zealand politician. He is a member of the Labour Party. He was born in Westport on 16 January 1958.

He was first elected to Parliament in the 1993 elections, recapturing the West Coast seat after the upset victory of National's Margaret Moir in the 1990 elections.

He retained his seat in the 1993 elections. He won the reconfigured West Coast-Tasman seat in the 1996 elections, and has been the MP for the electorate ever since.

O'Connor is regarded as being on the right of the Labour Party and has, with permission, voted against his colleagues on at least one occasion. He is currently the Minister of Rural Affairs, the Minister of Tourism, as well as Associate Minister of Health.