New Zealand 1975 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : New Zealand National Party won 55 of 87 seats with 47.4% of the vote; 82.5% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 7.3 points on 1972.
- New Zealand
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand National Party | 55 | +23 | 47.4 | +5.9 | 760,365 |
| New Zealand Labour Party | 32 | −23 | 39.7 | −8.7 | 636,319 |
| Social Credit / Democratic Party | 0 | 0 | 7.4 | +0.8 | 119,123 |
| Values Party | 0 | 0 | 5.2 | +3.2 | 83,213 |
± is the change against the New Zealand 1972 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- New Zealand National Party 760,365
- New Zealand Labour Party 636,319
- Social Credit / Democratic Party 119,123
- Values Party 83,213
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
82.5% of the 1,953,050 registered voters cast a ballot (1,611,020 ballots), down 7.3 points on 1972. 1,602,777 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 Party47.4% of votes63.2% of seats
- New Zealand Labour Party39.7% of votes36.8% of seats
- Social Credit / Democratic Party7.4% of votes0.0% of seats
- Values Party5.2% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 13.0 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.6 by votes and 1.9 by seats; New Zealand National Party led New Zealand Labour Party by 7.7 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.