New Zealand 2011 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : New Zealand National Party won 59 of 121 seats with 47.3% of the vote; 74.2% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 5.2 points on 2008.
- New Zealand
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand National Party | 59 | +1 | 47.3 | +2.4 | 1,058,637 |
| New Zealand Labour Party | 34 | −9 | 27.5 | −6.5 | 614,935 |
| Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand | 14 | +5 | 11.1 | +4.3 | 247,370 |
| New Zealand First | 8 | +8 | 6.6 | +2.5 | 147,544 |
| Conservative Party NZ | 0 | 2.6 | 59,236 | ||
| Te Pāti Māori | 3 | −2 | 1.4 | −1.0 | 31,982 |
| Mana Movement | 1 | 1.1 | 24,168 | ||
| ACT New Zealand | 1 | −4 | 1.1 | −2.6 | 23,889 |
| United Future | 1 | 0 | 0.6 | −0.3 | 13,443 |
± is the change against the New Zealand 2008 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- New Zealand National Party 1,058,637
- New Zealand Labour Party 614,935
- Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 247,370
- New Zealand First 147,544
- Conservative Party NZ 59,236
- Te Pāti Māori 31,982
- Mana Movement 24,168
- ACT New Zealand 23,889
- United Future 13,443
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
74.2% of the 3,070,847 registered voters cast a ballot (2,278,989 ballots), down 5.2 points on 2008. 2,237,464 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 Party47.3% of votes48.8% of seats
- New Zealand Labour Party27.5% of votes28.1% of seats
- Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand11.1% of votes11.6% of seats
- New Zealand First6.6% of votes6.6% of seats
- Te Pāti Māori1.4% of votes2.5% of seats
- Mana Movement1.1% of votes0.8% of seats
- ACT New Zealand1.1% of votes0.8% of seats
- United Future0.6% of votes0.8% of seats
- Conservative Party NZ2.6% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.4 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.2 by votes and 3.0 by seats; New Zealand National Party led New Zealand Labour Party by 19.8 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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