New Zealand 1943 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : New Zealand Labour Party won 46 of 80 seats with 47.6% of the vote; 95.2% of registered voters cast a ballot.
- New Zealand
- Held
Result
- New Zealand Labour Party46
- New Zealand National Party33
- Independents1
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | % | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand Labour Party | 46 | 47.6 | 448,740 |
| New Zealand National Party | 33 | 42.7 | 402,056 |
| Democratic Labour Party | 0 | 4.3 | 40,569 |
| Independents | 1 |
Votes by party
- New Zealand Labour Party 448,740
- New Zealand National Party 402,056
- Democratic Labour Party 40,569
- 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
95.2% of the 1,000,197 registered voters cast a ballot (951,785 ballots). 941,828 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- New Zealand Labour Party47.6% of votes57.5% of seats
- New Zealand National Party42.7% of votes41.3% of seats
- Democratic Labour Party4.3% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 7.7 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.4 by votes and 2.0 by seats; New Zealand Labour Party led New Zealand National Party by 5.0 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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