New Zealand 2005 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : New Zealand Labour Party won 50 of 121 seats with 41.1% of the vote; 80.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 3.9 points on 2002.
- New Zealand
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand Labour Party | 50 | −2 | 41.1 | −0.2 | 935,319 |
| New Zealand National Party | 48 | +21 | 39.1 | +18.2 | 889,813 |
| New Zealand First | 7 | −6 | 5.7 | −4.7 | 130,115 |
| Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand | 6 | −3 | 5.3 | −1.7 | 120,521 |
| United Future | 3 | −5 | 2.7 | −4.0 | 60,860 |
| Te Pāti Māori | 4 | 2.1 | 48,263 | ||
| ACT New Zealand | 2 | −7 | 1.5 | −5.6 | 34,469 |
| Jim Anderton's Progressive Party | 1 | −1 | 1.2 | −0.5 | 26,441 |
| Largest party without seats | 0 | 0.6 | 14,210 |
± is the change against the New Zealand 2002 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- New Zealand Labour Party 935,319
- New Zealand National Party 889,813
- New Zealand First 130,115
- Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 120,521
- United Future 60,860
- Te Pāti Māori 48,263
- ACT New Zealand 34,469
- Jim Anderton's Progressive Party 26,441
- Largest party without seats 14,210
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 2,847,396 registered voters cast a ballot (2,304,005 ballots), up 3.9 points on 2002. 2,275,629 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- New Zealand Labour Party41.1% of votes41.3% of seats
- New Zealand National Party39.1% of votes39.7% of seats
- New Zealand First5.7% of votes5.8% of seats
- Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand5.3% of votes5.0% of seats
- Te Pāti Māori2.1% of votes3.3% of seats
- United Future2.7% of votes2.5% of seats
- ACT New Zealand1.5% of votes1.7% of seats
- Jim Anderton's Progressive Party1.2% of votes0.8% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 1.1 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.0 by votes and 3.0 by seats; New Zealand Labour Party led New Zealand National Party by 2.0 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
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