From Jacindamania to Christchurch: Jacinda Ardern’s life in politics – in pictures

Jacinda Ardern speaks at the Labour party’s annual conference in Auckland in 2012 amid rumours David Shearer’s party leadership may be challenged.

Ardern performs a DJ set at the Laneway festival in Auckland in 2014.

Ardern meets players from the Mt Albert rugby league premiere team following an Auckland match in 2017.

New Zealand captain Kieran Read receives the Bledisloe Cup from Ardern after the rugby team’s 2018 victory against Australia.

Ardern and her partner, Clarke Gayford, with their baby daugther, Neve, outside hospital in Auckland in June 2018.

Ardern with French president Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris in 2018.

Queen Elizabeth II greets Ardern at Buckingham Palace, London, during a commonwealth heads of government meeting in 2018.

Ardern holds daughter Neve beside partner Clarke Gayford, left, at the Nelson Mandela peace summit at UN headquarters in New York in 2018.

Barack Obama at a pōwhiri welcoming ceremony with Ardern at Government House, Auckland, in 2018.

Ardern hugs a woman at Kilbirnie mosque in Wellington in March 2019 after the Christchurch mosques attack.

Ardern, second left, consoles family members at a Pike River coalmine in Greymouth, New Zealand, in 2019 after 29 men were trapped and killed in a 2010 explosion.

Ardern walks on stage to speak at the national remembrance service in March 2019 after the Christchurch mosque shootings.

Ardern meets first responders at Whakatane fire station after a deadly volcanic eruption at Whakaari / White Island in December 2019.

Ardern greets Prince William with a hongi – traditional Maori greeting – at an Anzac Day civic service in 2019 during his New Zealand visit in 2019.

Ardern helps cook breakfast for the crowds after a dawn service in Waitangi on Waitangi Day at 2021.

Ardern with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office at the White House in May 2022 during a discussion on Asia-Pacific security and engagement.

Ardern receives a Covid vaccination booster last year in Auckland.

Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese greets Ardern before talks in Sydney last June.

Ardern in Ernest Shackleton’s Nimrod Expedition hut during a visit to Scott Base in Antarctica last October.

King Charles III with Ardern as he receives realm prime ministers at Buckingham Palace in September last year.

Jacinda with children from Spreydon West school in Christchurch in 2019.

Ardern on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last May.

Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin with Ardern at a media conference in Auckland last November.

Ardern and partner Clarke Gayford leave after she announces her resignation at the War Memorial Centre in Napier, New Zealand, on January 19 2023.