Dan Bidois

Daniel Michael Bidois (born 1983) is a New Zealand politician.

A member of the National Party, Bidois has been a Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for Northcote since 2023. He previously represented that electorate from 2018 until 2020.

Early life and education Bidois is both of European and Māori descent. He affiliates to Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Manaiopoto. At the age of 9 months, he was adopted by Mike and Leah Bidois. Raised in Howick, he is the youngest of the four Bidois children. Bidois made contact with his birth mother for the first time on New Year's Eve, 2021.

Bidois attended Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School, Howick Intermediate and Howick College, where he was a "child delinquent" twice suspended for stealing and for mooning his principal.

After completing a bridging course at Manukau Institute of Technology, Bidois trained as an economist at the University of Auckland, completing undergraduate degrees in arts and commerce in 2006 and a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) in economics in 2007. He was president of the Auckland University Students' Association in 2006, having previously lost election to that position for the 2005 term. After completing postgraduate study at Harvard, Bidois worked for three years as an economist with the OECD in Paris, France, working on economic reforms in emerging markets. In 2015 he worked as an independent strategy consultant to the Malaysian government in Kuala Lumpur. He returned to New Zealand in 2016 and worked as a strategy manager for Foodstuffs.

Member of Parliament

Bidois contested the National Party selection for upon the retirement of Maurice Williamson, but failed to win the candidacy. He stood as a list-only candidate in the 2017 general election, ranked 72.

On 22 March 2018, Northcote MP Jonathan Coleman announced his resignation from Parliament, triggering a by-election. Bidios was selected as National's candidate on 15 April. He defeated Labour Party candidate Shanan Halbert, winning 10,566 votes (50.67%). Bidois was sworn into the 52nd Parliament on 27 June 2018 and gave his maiden speech on 3 July. In that speech, he talked of strengthening an upwardly mobile society through "the power of free and competitive enterprise."

As an opposition MP, Bidois sat on the social services and community committee (2018–2019), the Māori affairs committee (2019–2020) and the education and workforce committee (2020). He was his party's associate spokesperson on workplace relations and safety (2018–2020). In this role he stated his view that there should not be trade unions in New Zealand. As Northcote MP, he advocated for dynamic traffic lanes to decrease congestion in his electorate.

At the 2020 general election, Bidois lost Northcote to Labour's Halbert by a final margin of 2,534 votes. At 43, he was ranked too low on National's list to return to Parliament as a list MP. After his election loss Bidois established his own consultancy before taking an engagement manager role with an Accenture subsidiary. In the 54th New Zealand Parliament he was previously chair of the Māori affairs committee and is currently deputy chair of the transport and infrastructure committee and a member of the finance and expenditure committee. A member's bill in his name (previously in the name of Melissa Lee) passed its third reading on 11 September 2024, setting a minimum use period of three years for most gift cards.

Political views Bidois voted against the End of Life Choice Act 2019, writing on Facebook he was concerned about safeguards, opposed to sending a conflicting message on suicide, and supportive of palliative care. He voted in favour of the Abortion Legislation Act 2020 which legalised abortion in New Zealand.

Personal life Bidois married Courtney Simpson in 2023. They have a son.