New Zealand 1957 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : New Zealand Labour Party won 41 of 80 seats with 48.3% of the vote; 93.4% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 2.0 points on 1954.
- New Zealand
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand Labour Party | 41 | +6 | 48.3 | +4.2 | 559,096 |
| New Zealand National Party | 39 | −6 | 44.2 | −0.1 | 511,699 |
| Social Credit / Democratic Party | 0 | 0 | 7.2 | −3.9 | 83,498 |
± is the change against the New Zealand 1954 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- New Zealand Labour Party 559,096
- New Zealand National Party 511,699
- Social Credit / Democratic Party 83,498
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
93.4% of the 1,244,748 registered voters cast a ballot (1,163,061 ballots), up 2.0 points on 1954. 1,157,365 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1949 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- New Zealand Labour Party48.3% of votes51.3% of seats
- New Zealand National Party44.2% of votes48.8% of seats
- Social Credit / Democratic Party7.2% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 6.4 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.3 by votes and 2.0 by seats; New Zealand Labour Party led New Zealand National Party by 4.1 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
Our text and compilation: CC BY 4.0. How to reuse and cite this page.