New Zealand 1969 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : New Zealand National Party won 45 of 84 seats with 45.2% of the vote; 89.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 3.9 points on 1966.
- New Zealand
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand National Party | 45 | +1 | 45.2 | +1.6 | 605,960 |
| New Zealand Labour Party | 39 | +4 | 44.2 | +2.7 | 592,055 |
| Social Credit / Democratic Party | 0 | −1 | 9.1 | −5.4 | 121,576 |
± is the change against the New Zealand 1966 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- New Zealand National Party 605,960
- New Zealand Labour Party 592,055
- Social Credit / Democratic Party 121,576
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
89.9% of the 1,503,952 registered voters cast a ballot (1,351,813 ballots), up 3.9 points on 1966. 1,340,168 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1957 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- New Zealand National Party45.2% of votes53.6% of seats
- New Zealand Labour Party44.2% of votes46.4% of seats
- Social Credit / Democratic Party9.1% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 8.9 (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 1.0 point 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.