New Zealand 1978 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : New Zealand National Party won 51 of 92 seats with 39.8% of the vote; 80.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 1.5 points on 1975.
- New Zealand
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand Labour Party | 40 | +8 | 40.4 | +0.7 | 691,076 |
| New Zealand National Party | 51 | −4 | 39.8 | −7.6 | 680,991 |
| Social Credit / Democratic Party | 1 | +1 | 16.1 | +8.6 | 274,756 |
| Values Party | 0 | 0 | 2.4 | −2.8 | 41,220 |
± is the change against the New Zealand 1975 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- New Zealand Labour Party 691,076
- New Zealand National Party 680,991
- Social Credit / Democratic Party 274,756
- Values Party 41,220
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
80.9% of the 2,126,724 registered voters cast a ballot (1,721,443 ballots), down 1.5 points on 1975. 1,710,173 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 Party39.8% of votes55.4% of seats
- New Zealand Labour Party40.4% of votes43.5% of seats
- Social Credit / Democratic Party16.1% of votes1.1% of seats
- Values Party2.4% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 15.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.9 by votes and 2.0 by seats; New Zealand Labour Party led New Zealand National Party by 0.6 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.