New Zealand General Election 2008
(Share of votes in%)
%
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
44.9
34.0
6.7
4.1
3.6
2.4
0.9
0.9
2.5
Gains and losses
The 2008 general election in New Zealand took place on November 8, 2008 around 120 seats in the House of Representatives . The New Zealand National Party , led by John Key , won by far the largest share of the seats. She formed a government with the help of ACT New Zealand , United Future New Zealand and the Māori Party . The New Zealand Labor Party , which had ruled for nine years, went into opposition. On November 19, 2008, John Key was sworn in as the successor to Helen Clark as Prime Minister of New Zealand .
Election results
Overall election results
| Political party | Party vote | Constituencies won |
Seats won |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surname | be right | percentage | +/- | seats total |
+/- | ||
| National | 1,053,398 | 44.93 | +5.83 | 41 | 58 | +10 | |
| Labor | 796.880 | 33.99 | −7.11 | 21st | 43 | −7 | |
| Green | 157.613 | 6.72 | +1.42 | 0 | 9 | +3 | |
| ACT | 85,496 | 3.65 | +2.14 | 1 | 5 | +3 | |
| Māori | 55,980 | 2.39 | +0.27 | 5 | 5 | +1 | |
| Progressive | 21,241 | 0.91 | −0.25 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| United Future | 20,497 | 0.87 | −1.80 | 1 | 1 | −2 | |
| other parties | 153,461 | 6.51 | +5.32 | 0 | 0 | −7 | |
| total | 2,344,566 | 100.00 | 70 | 122 | +1 | ||
Election results by constituency
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2008 General Election - Official Result - Overall Status . Electoral Commission New Zealand , November 22, 2018, accessed May 31, 2015 .