New Zealand 1963 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : New Zealand National Party won 45 of 80 seats with 47.1% of the vote; 89.6% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 0.2 points on 1960.
- New Zealand
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand National Party | 45 | −1 | 47.1 | −0.5 | 563,875 |
| New Zealand Labour Party | 35 | +1 | 43.7 | +0.3 | 524,066 |
| Social Credit / Democratic Party | 0 | 0 | 7.9 | −0.7 | 95,176 |
± is the change against the New Zealand 1960 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- New Zealand National Party 563,875
- New Zealand Labour Party 524,066
- Social Credit / Democratic Party 95,176
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
89.6% of the 1,345,836 registered voters cast a ballot (1,205,322 ballots), down 0.2 points on 1960. 1,198,045 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1951 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- New Zealand National Party47.1% of votes56.3% of seats
- New Zealand Labour Party43.7% of votes43.8% of seats
- Social Credit / Democratic Party7.9% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 8.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.4 by votes and 2.0 by seats; New Zealand National Party led New Zealand Labour Party by 3.3 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.