Mr McKelvie has served as an MP since the 2011 election as the MP for Rangitīkei, in addition to being the current chair of the Governance and Administration Committee, which is a reasonably bipartisan committee—it is a small committee and reasonably bipartisan in nature; just with National and Labour members on it—and he does a good job of keeping good order in that committee. He has also previously served on the Finance and Expenditure Committee and is a former chair of the Primary Production Committee. 