| Te-Hani Brown | |
| Constituency Mp5: | Tengatangi–Areora–Ngatiarua |
| Parliament5: | Cook Islands |
| Term Start5: | 14 June 2018 |
| Predecessor5: | Nandi Glassie |
| Birth Date: | 16 March 1996 |
| Birth Place: | Rarotonga, Cook Islands |
| Party: | Independent |
Te-Hani Rose Alexandra Brown (born 16 March 1996) is a Cook Islands politician and member of the Cook Islands Parliament. She is an independent.
Te-Hani Brown was born in 1996 in Rarotonga, Cook Islands.[1] Brown is the daughter of MP Rose Toki-Brown.[2] She was first elected to parliament as a candidate for the Cook Islands Democratic Party in the 2018 election,[3] defeating Nandi Glassie. At age 22, she was the youngest MP in the Pacific region.[4]
In January 2019 Brown resigned from the Democratic party to support the government of Henry Puna.[5] Anti-party hopping laws forced her to resign from parliament. She contested the subsequent by-election as an independent, and was re-elected,[6] but resigned the seat again just two weeks later when an electoral petition was filed.[7] She contested a second by-election in November 2019 and was re-elected for a third time.[8]
Following the election of Mark Brown as Prime Minister she was appointed Associate Minister of Internal Affairs and Health.[9]
She was re-elected at the 2022 Cook Islands general election[10] and continued her support for Mark Brown.[11]