New Zealand 1908 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : New Zealand Liberal Party won 50 of 80 seats with 58.7% of the vote; 80.3% of registered voters cast a ballot.
- New Zealand
- Held
Result
- New Zealand Liberal Party50
- Reform Party26
- Independents3
- New Zealand Labour Party1
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | % | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand Liberal Party | 50 | 58.7 | 250,445 |
| Reform Party | 26 | 27.8 | 118,773 |
| New Zealand Labour Party | 1 | 4.1 | 17,492 |
| Independents | 3 |
Votes by party
- New Zealand Liberal Party 250,445
- Reform Party 118,773
- New Zealand Labour Party 17,492
- Independents
ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.
ParlGov marks results before 1945 as experimental: they may need revision, so we compare them with no other election.
Share of the vote
Turnout
80.3% of the 537,003 registered voters cast a ballot (431,467 ballots). 426,871 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- New Zealand Liberal Party58.7% of votes62.5% of seats
- Reform Party27.8% of votes32.5% of seats
- New Zealand Labour Party4.1% of votes1.3% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 5.4 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.4 by votes and 2.0 by seats; New Zealand Liberal Party led Reform Party by 30.9 points of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
Sources and licence
- ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
- Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
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