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New Zealand 2017 general election

Final results from ParlGov, read : New Zealand National Party won 56 of 120 seats with 44.4% of the vote; 79.8% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 1.9 points on 2014.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
New Zealand National Party56−444.4−2.61,152,075
New Zealand Labour Party46+1436.9+11.8956,184
New Zealand First9−27.2−1.5186,706
Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand8−66.3−4.4162,443
Opportunity Party02.463,261
Te Pāti Māori0−21.2−0.130,580
ACT New Zealand100.5−0.213,075

± is the change against the New Zealand 2014 general election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • New Zealand National Party 1,152,075
  • New Zealand Labour Party 956,184
  • New Zealand First 186,706
  • Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 162,443
  • Opportunity Party 63,261
  • Te Pāti Māori 30,580
  • ACT New Zealand 13,075

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

79.8% of the 3,298,009 registered voters cast a ballot (2,630,173 ballots), up 1.9 points on 2014. 2,591,868 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 2005 in our data. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • New Zealand National Party44.4% of votes46.7% of seats
  • New Zealand Labour Party36.9% of votes38.3% of seats
  • New Zealand First7.2% of votes7.5% of seats
  • Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand6.3% of votes6.7% of seats
  • ACT New Zealand0.5% of votes0.8% of seats
  • Opportunity Party2.4% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.7 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.9 by votes and 2.7 by seats; New Zealand National Party led New Zealand Labour Party by 7.5 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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