New Zealand 1984 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : New Zealand Labour Party won 56 of 95 seats with 43.0% of the vote; 93.7% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 2.3 points on 1981.
- New Zealand
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand Labour Party | 56 | +13 | 43.0 | +4.0 | 829,154 |
| New Zealand National Party | 37 | −10 | 35.9 | −2.9 | 692,494 |
| New Zealand Party | 0 | 12.3 | 236,385 | ||
| Social Credit / Democratic Party | 2 | 0 | 7.6 | −13.0 | 147,162 |
± is the change against the New Zealand 1981 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- New Zealand Labour Party 829,154
- New Zealand National Party 692,494
- New Zealand Party 236,385
- Social Credit / Democratic Party 147,162
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
93.7% of the 2,111,651 registered voters cast a ballot (1,978,798 ballots), up 2.3 points on 1981. 1,929,201 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1949 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- New Zealand Labour Party43.0% of votes58.9% of seats
- New Zealand National Party35.9% of votes38.9% of seats
- Social Credit / Democratic Party7.6% of votes2.1% of seats
- New Zealand Party12.3% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 14.9 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.0 by votes and 2.0 by seats; New Zealand Labour Party led New Zealand National Party by 7.1 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.