New Zealand General Election 2017
The 2017 New Zealand general election took place on September 23, 2017. The 120 members of the 52nd House of Representatives were elected .
Suffrage
The House of Representatives is elected according to a mixed-member proportional vote, i.e. a personalized proportional representation similar to the election to the German Bundestag . Each voter has two votes. In each of the 71 constituencies, one member is elected by majority vote. The remaining 49 list mandates are distributed in such a way that the mandate ratio corresponds to the party vote ratio , whereby only parties are considered that have more than 5 percent of the valid votes ( threshold clause ) or an electoral district mandate . If a party receives more direct mandates than it would be entitled to based on the proportion of the party votes, the parliament is enlarged by overhang mandates .
Election results
The National Party became the strongest party and bloc with 56 seats; the Greens and Labor together had 54 seats. As a consequence, New Zealand First became the kingmaker with 9 seats. Ultimately, New Zealand First and Labor formed a minority government backed by the Greens.
Overall election results
New Zealand General Election 2017 | ||||||||
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Political party | be right | Seats | ||||||
number | in % | +/-% | Direct mandates |
List mandates |
Overall mandates |
+/- | ||
National Party | 1,152,075 | 44.4 | 2.6 | 41 | 15th | 56 | 4 | |
Labor Party | 956.184 | 36.9 | 11.8 | 29 | 17th | 46 | 14 | |
New Zealand First | 186,706 | 7.3 | 1.4 | - | 9 | 9 | 2 | |
Green party | 162,443 | 6.3 | 4.5 | - | 8th | 8th | 6 | |
ACT | 13,075 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1 | - | 1 | ||
The Opportunities Party (TOP) | 63,261 | 2.4 | New | - | - | 0 | New | |
Māori party | 30,580 | 1.2 | 0.1 | - | - | 0 | 2 | |
Aotearoa Legalize Cannabis Party | 8,075 | 0.3 | 0.2 | - | - | 0 | ||
Conservative party | 6.253 | 0.2 | 3.7 | - | - | 0 | ||
Mana | 3,642 | 0.1 | 1.3 | - | - | 0 | ||
Ban 1080 | 3,005 | 0.1 | 0.1 | - | - | 0 | ||
New Zealand People's Party | 1,890 | 0.1 | New | - | - | 0 | New | |
United Future | 1,782 | 0.1 | 0.1 | - | - | 0 | 1 | |
New Zealand Outdoors Party | 1,690 | 0.1 | New | - | - | 0 | New | |
New Zealand Democrats for Social Credit | 806 | 0.0 | - | - | 0 | |||
Internet party | 499 | 0.0 | 1.4 | - | - | 0 | ||
total | 2,591,896 | 100.0 | 71 | 49 | 120 | 1 |
Source: Electoral Commission
Election results according to direct mandate constituencies
Starting position
In the 2014 election , the Conservative National Party became the strongest party for the third time in a row, but again narrowly missed an absolute majority of the seats. After the election, she formed a minority government with support from the centrist United Future and the libertarian ACT and the Māori Party . On December 12, 2016, Prime Minister John Key turned over to Bill English .
Due to bad poll numbers, the previous leader of the opposition came Andrew Little from the Labor Party resigned from his post on 1 August 2017th His previous deputy Jacinda Ardern was elected as his successor .
Parties
The following parties were represented in the House of Representatives from 2014 to 2017:
Surname | Alignment | Seats 2014 | |
---|---|---|---|
National | conservative | 60 | |
Labor | social democratic | 32 | |
Green | green politics | 14th | |
NZ First | Nationalist, right-wing populist | 11 | |
Māori | Indigenous rights | 2 | |
ACT | liberal, libertarian | 1 | |
United Future | social liberal | 1 |
Survey
For a long time, the polls saw the Nationals as having a clear lead over the Labor Party. At the end of August, however, Labor was able to catch up strongly and was even the strongest force in several polls in early September. The last polls before the election were inconsistent.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2017 General Election - Official Result . In: Election Results . Electoral Commission , accessed October 21, 2017 .
- ↑ Labor in New Zealand is counting on a new candidate shortly before the election. Der Standard , August 1, 2017, accessed September 24, 2017.