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New Zealand 1928 general election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Reform Party won 28 of 80 seats with 35.9% of the vote; 90.5% of registered voters cast a ballot.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats%Votes
Reform Party2835.9271,259
New Zealand Liberal Party2730.2228,438
New Zealand Labour Party1926.2197,953
Independents55.541,767
Country Party11.611,990
Ratana Movement00.74,924
Votes by party
  • Reform Party 271,259
  • New Zealand Liberal Party 228,438
  • New Zealand Labour Party 197,953
  • Independents 41,767
  • Country Party 11,990
  • Ratana Movement 4,924

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

90.5% of the 844,633 registered voters cast a ballot (764,631 ballots). 756,331 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Reform Party35.9% of votes35.0% of seats
  • New Zealand Liberal Party30.2% of votes33.8% of seats
  • New Zealand Labour Party26.2% of votes23.8% of seats
  • Country Party1.6% of votes1.3% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 3.2 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.4 by votes and 3.4 by seats; Reform Party led New Zealand Liberal Party by 5.7 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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