New Zealand 1919 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Reform Party won 45 of 80 seats with 35.6% of the vote; 82.0% of registered voters cast a ballot.
- New Zealand
- Held
Result
- Reform Party45
- New Zealand Liberal Party19
- Independents8
- New Zealand Labour Party8
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | % | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reform Party | 45 | 35.6 | 197,041 |
| New Zealand Liberal Party | 19 | 30.1 | 166,675 |
| New Zealand Labour Party | 8 | 24.3 | 134,094 |
| Independents | 8 | 10.0 | 55,161 |
Votes by party
- Reform Party 197,041
- New Zealand Liberal Party 166,675
- New Zealand Labour Party 134,094
- Independents 55,161
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
82.0% of the 683,420 registered voters cast a ballot (560,558 ballots). 552,971 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Reform Party35.6% of votes56.3% of seats
- New Zealand Liberal Party30.1% of votes23.8% of seats
- New Zealand Labour Party24.3% of votes10.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 18.3 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.5 by votes and 2.5 by seats; Reform Party led New Zealand Liberal Party by 5.5 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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