Voter participation in New Zealand’s 2026 general election is expected to be the second lowest on record, with preliminary Electoral Commission figures showing 74.6 percent of eligible voters, or approximately 2.83 million people, casting ballots.
This represents a decline from the 78.2 percent turnout recorded in 2023. Advance voting continued to grow in popularity, accounting for 67.3 percent of all votes, up from 61.4 percent at the previous election.
Around 399,000 special votes remain to be counted, including nearly 97,000 from overseas, with the final figures subject to change. Voter enrolment also slipped, with 93.7 percent of eligible New Zealanders registered, compared with 94.7 percent in 2023.
The Electoral Commission expects to complete the official count and announce the final results on Friday, 27 November.
Do the people with special votes actually exist?
Overeas votes should had been counted by now as most were electronic with 7 Nov deasline..
Electoral Commission is corrupt.
Nathan Rothchild hasnt tossed a coin to see which Cult of Satan Personality Pollies he wants to lead his New Zealand. Wow with only 30 percent of the population votining for the nats or labour, you get to Rule NZ, something seriusly wrong with NZ voting system.
Yep, 40% of New Zealand voted against national and labour
And 25.4% of eligible voters (registered) who failed to participate, was a vote against the church parliament (Imperialists) democratic system of slavery.
They will tut tut those who who didn’t vote, but not voting really just shows how many have no faith in the system and the process.
This is easy to understand. Its not laziness only, it’s a growing awareness that politicians work and deliver policy only for those that pay them. And those that pay them are not the tax payers, rather lobbyists;.. big business, banksters and big pharma. Voting has become a futile grasp at the idea that ” constituents” have any say.. With a fast collapsing world economy….pushed off a cliff by corrupted governments around the world locking down populations for a mythical disease and destroying initiative and faith in a failed system. I don’t think there is any political solution to the world of pain heading our way. Things are not going to get better. Whether its team blue green pink red or beige installed in the horrid dull lifeless building in Wellington called the Beehive. No-one is coming to save us.
Historically, a higher voter turnout favours the left. The right should feel more confident if voter turnout is low.
The very very same huge scuttling bleating flock of pathetic snitchy puppets you saw five years ago scurrying around with filthy billowing slave-muzzles clamped to their eye-darting faces – have again dutifully bent down in spineless traitorous whimpering submission to tick the boxes of their slimy fraudulent puppet-masters the duo of greasy treacherous lying snakes the combined labour/national establishment corporation globalist wasp-party. Oh what a fkn surprise that….
They are all a pack of Muppets first time ever have not voted was going to vote for act but once they said they could work with opportunity party I was out
Wong is a very dangerous person i believe as dangerous as jabcinda watch this space
Should it really matter if the willfully ignorant and the Stuffwit generation don’t vote?
Fraudulent voting
no identification is required to vote
Only country in world where id not checked
Results can’t be verified
Electoral commission open for fraud and vote rigging
Completely understandable. Whichever way you vote you loose.
On the whole, the Maori Party voter is far more intelligent than the National Party voter. Because both parties currently have electorate seats only, that means the entire party votes for these two parties have been wasted. According to https://electionresults.govt.nz/ge2026/ there are 706,680 party votes for the National Party and 13,845 party votes for the Maori Party. Therefore 706,680 morons party-voted National while only 13,845 morons party-voted for the Maori Party.
Remember Winston’s comment that two Wongs don’t make a right.. maybe it takes only one Wong. Or will the Government be three Rights and a Wong.. 😂