New Zealand 1954 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : New Zealand National Party won 45 of 80 seats with 44.3% of the vote; 91.4% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 2.3 points on 1951.
- New Zealand
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand National Party | 45 | −5 | 44.3 | −9.7 | 485,630 |
| New Zealand Labour Party | 35 | +5 | 44.1 | −1.7 | 484,082 |
| Social Credit / Democratic Party | 0 | 11.1 | 122,068 |
± is the change against the New Zealand 1951 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- New Zealand National Party 485,630
- New Zealand Labour Party 484,082
- Social Credit / Democratic Party 122,068
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.
Share of the vote
Turnout
91.4% of the 1,209,670 registered voters cast a ballot (1,105,609 ballots), up 2.3 points on 1951. 1,096,893 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- New Zealand National Party44.3% of votes56.3% of seats
- New Zealand Labour Party44.1% of votes43.8% of seats
- Social Credit / Democratic Party11.1% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 11.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.5 by votes and 2.0 by seats; New Zealand National Party led New Zealand Labour Party by 0.1 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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