The Electoral Commission declared the official results for the 2023 General Election today.
In a statement published on the Commission’s website, it said ‘All votes counted on election night have been counted a second time, and special votes have been checked for eligibility before being counted. This has been done in the presence of Justices of the Peace and any scrutineers appointed by candidates.
‘Comprehensive audit checks have also been completed at the national level to ensure the results are accurate.
‘The results are subject to any applications for judicial recounts.’
Details of the official results are available here.
Party Vote
The National Party has two fewer seats, Te Pāti Māori has gained two, and the Green Party has gained one more.
- The number of seats in Parliament on these results will be 122.
- The National Party has 48 seats compared with 50 on election night.
- Te Pāti Māori has 6 seats compared with 4 on election night.
- The Green Party has 15 seats compared with 14 on election night.
- There are no changes for the Labour Party which has 34 seats, ACT New Zealand which has 11 seats, and the New Zealand First Party which has 8 seats.
- There is an overhang of two seats because Te Pāti Māori won more electorate seats than it would otherwise have from its share of the party vote.
- One more seat will be added to Parliament after the Port Waikato by-election, taking the total to 123.
Electorate Vote
Four electorate results have changed since election night:
- Labour candidate Rachel Boyack has won Nelson with a majority of 29 votes over the National candidate Blair Cameron.
- Labour candidate Phil Twyford has won Te Atatū with a majority of 131 votes over the National candidate Angee Nicholas.
- Te Pāti Māori candidate Takutai Tarsh Kemp has won Tāmaki Makaurau with a majority of 4 votes over the Labour candidate Peeni Henare.
- Te Pāti Māori candidate Mariameno Kapa-Kingi has won Te Tai Tokerau with a majority of 517 over the Labour candidate Kelvin Davis.
All other electorate candidates leading on election night have been confirmed as winning their seats.
Key statistics
- The total number of votes cast was 2,883,412.
- The number of special votes was 603,257 – 20.9% of total votes (17% in 2020 & 2017).
- Turnout of people who were enrolled to vote was 78.2% (82.2% in 2020, 79.8% in 2017).
- The final enrolment rate was 94.7% (94.1% in 2020, 92.4% in 2017).
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That’s probably the best result this time round. Hopefully that’ll translate into a Nat|ACT|NZF working coalition. This, in my view, prevents a lurch to the hard right which would be devastating considering we’ve just come from the hard left. What we need now is to follow a considered centrist role, at least for the next three years. Having the NZF handbrake will, as it did with Labour in 2017 slow down or prevent any moves toward the polar opposite of the political spectrum. Remaining in the centre allows the rolling back of the Ardern/Hipkins dictates, thereby allowing Kiwi’s to catch their breath, rebuild and re-unite our country. It’ll hopefully give more power to NZF in being successful with it’sc19 inquiry and repealing the therapeutics act. One more thing… Winnie for Broadcasting Minister! That would set the cat among the pideons. Infact, why not take the opportunity to retire the broadcasting portfolio and bring in a media portfolio instead that covers all forms of media.
Well if he does get the broadcasting job he should get rid of miss Stokes with her ghastly whining voice.
She was another reason I turned off the TV for good, along with all the wokeness and propaganda. Plus the one sided narrative and departure from impartial real journalism.
I am in my 50s and will never watch TV for the rest of my life. Suddenly discovered other. Things to do. 😊
Fatal flaw in your logic, unfortunately: there is no longer a “centrist” position thanks to the communist left.
Even reasonable, common sense positions will immediately be deemed “far right” by the crybaby activists and professional squawkers. The mainstream media marionettes will repeat the nonsense and add fuel to the fire and presto, you’ll be a vile right-winger.
Labour red and Labour blue hand the baton to each other and the show goes on. Its been that way for decades and we’ve gone backwards in so many ways. A bit of pressure from ACT and NZ First is going to be a good thing.
Spoiler alert: they basically ALL work for Blackrock.
NOTHING is going to change. In fact it’s probably going to get worse when Luxon and Seymour import millions of austere “doctors and lawyers” from Africa and the Middle East. NZ Big business want cheap foreign workers, consequences be damned. Nats and Act will make it happen. We’ll be the UK part 2 very soon.