New Zealand General Election 2017

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(Share of votes in%)

%

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

44.4

36.9

7.2

6.3

2.4

1.2

0.5

1.1

TOP

Otherwise.

Gains and losses

compared to 2014

% p

12

10

8th

6th

4th

2

0

-2

-4

-6

-2.6

+11.8

-1.4

-4.5

+2.4

-0.1

-0.2

-5.4

TOP

Otherwise.

Distribution of seats in the House of Representatives after the 2017 election

A total of 120 seats

Labor : 46
Green : 8
ACT : 1
NZNP : 56
NZF : 9

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

House of Representatives after the election

Bill English , National Party's top candidate

Jacinda Ardern , Labor Party's top candidate

New Zealand General Election 2017
Political party		be right			Seats
Political party		number	in %	+/-%	Direct mandates	List mandates	Overall mandates	+/-
	National Party	1,152,075	44.4	0 2.6	41	15th	56	0 4
	Labor Party	956.184	36.9	11.8	29	17th	46	14
	New Zealand First	186,706	7.3	0 1.4	-	9	9	0 2
	Green party	162,443	6.3	0 4.5	-	8th	8th	0 6
	ACT	13,075	0.5	0 0.2	1	-	1

	The Opportunities Party (TOP)	63,261	2.4	New	-	-	0	New
	Māori party	30,580	1.2	0 0.1	-	-	0	0 2
	Aotearoa Legalize Cannabis Party	8,075	0.3	0 0.2	-	-	0
	Conservative party	6.253	0.2	0 3.7	-	-	0
	Mana	3,642	0.1	0 1.3	-	-	0
	Ban 1080	3,005	0.1	0 0.1	-	-	0
	New Zealand People's Party	1,890	0.1	New	-	-	0	New
	United Future	1,782	0.1	0 0.1	-	-	0	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	0 1.4	-	-	0
total		2,591,896	100.0		71	49	120	10

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:

	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.

Web links

Commons : 2017 New Zealand election - Images, videos and audio files collection

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.

[Electoral_Commission_Election_Results-1] 2017 General Election - Official Result . In: Election Results . Electoral Commission , accessed October 21, 2017 .

[2] Labor in New Zealand is counting on a new candidate shortly before the election. Der Standard , August 1, 2017, accessed September 24, 2017.