a "staunch supporter" of the new party. At the 2008 general election, Glavish was a list-only candidate for the Māori Party, ranked at number eight on their list, but was not elected to Parliament. She was President of the Māori Party from 2013 to 2016. She stood again on the Māori Party list, with a ranking of 11th, at the 2014 general election, and once more was unsuccessful. As party president, she did not favour reconciling with Hone Harawira's Mana Movement, which had broken off from the Māori Party in 2011. She did not seek re-election to the presidency in 2016 and was succeeded by Tuku Morgan. Honours In the 2011 New Year Honours, Glavish was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for services to Māori and the community. In the 2018 New Year Honours, she was promoted to Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (DNZM), also for services to Māori and the community, and therefore granted the title dame. Glavish commented that she is the first dame in her hapū. Acknowledging that use of te reo Māori and Māori names is now more commonplace in New Zealand, Glavish is styled as Dame Rangimārie (rather than Naida). References Living people New Zealand Māori activists Māori Party politicians Dames Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit Unsuccessful candidates in the 2002 New Zealand general election Unsuccessful candidates in the 2008 New Zealand general election Unsuccessful candidates in the 2014 New Zealand general election New Zealand justices of the peace Alliance (New Zealand political party) politicians Mana Motuhake politicians Ngāti Whātua people New Zealand people of Croatian descent Unsuccessful candidates in the 2020 New Zealand general election 1946 births