2024 Kīngitanga election

2024 Kīngitanga election
3–5 September 2024
 
Nominee Nga wai hono i te po
Monarch before election

Tūheitia †

 Elected Monarch

Nga wai hono i te po

The election of the eighth Māori monarch took place from 3 to 5 September 2024, following the death of King Tūheitia. The Tekau-mā-rua (Tūheitia's privy council) convened a meeting of tribal leaders from throughout New Zealand to choose his successor by consensus. They chose Nga wai hono i te po, Tūheitia's youngest child and only daughter. As is custom, she was revealed as the next monarch on the last morning of her father's tangi at Tūrangawaewae marae in Ngāruawāhia and then crowned, making her the youngest reigning monarch in the world.

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