New Zealand 1966 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : New Zealand National Party won 44 of 80 seats with 43.6% of the vote; 86.0% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 3.6 points on 1963.
- New Zealand
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand National Party | 44 | −1 | 43.6 | −3.4 | 525,945 |
| New Zealand Labour Party | 35 | 0 | 41.4 | −2.3 | 499,392 |
| Social Credit / Democratic Party | 1 | +1 | 14.5 | +6.5 | 174,515 |
| Largest party without seats | 0 | 0.1 | 1,419 |
± is the change against the New Zealand 1963 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- New Zealand National Party 525,945
- New Zealand Labour Party 499,392
- Social Credit / Democratic Party 174,515
- Largest party without seats 1,419
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
86.0% of the 1,409,600 registered voters cast a ballot (1,212,127 ballots), down 3.6 points on 1963. 1,205,095 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1946. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- New Zealand National Party43.6% of votes55.0% of seats
- New Zealand Labour Party41.4% of votes43.8% of seats
- Social Credit / Democratic Party14.5% of votes1.3% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 12.4 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.6 by votes and 2.0 by seats; New Zealand National Party led New Zealand Labour Party by 2.2 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.