With 0.56% support, Te Pāti Māori will be stoked with its result tonight, writes Jamie Tahana. It seems odd, but the Māori party has spent the election deliberately asking people not to give them their party vote. Instead, they asked for electorate votes only. Just a reminder, seven of the seats in New Zealand’s parliament are reserved for representatives of Māori voters – you can read more about them here. The party’s co-leaders, Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, have comfortably won their respective seats of Waiariki and Te Tai Hauauru; Oriini Kaipara swept the Auckland seat of Tamaki Makaurau; Hana Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, who hit international stardom for her haka in parliament, has cruised across the line in Hauraki-Waikato; while Aperahama Edwards holds a narrow lead over the Greens’ Hūhana Lydon in the far North seat of Te Tai Tokerau. That’s five seats. But with a party vote so low, they will be five overhang seats. Still, after a term that has seen plenty of in-fighting i
New Zealand election coalition talks will likely take weeks – as it happened
This blog is closed, you can read our report on the New Zealand election here Another update here with 8% of the vote counted. National on 31.2%, Labour 28.4%, the Greens 12.9%, Act 11.2%, NZ First 9.6%, Opportunity 5.7% and Te Pāti Māori 0.4%. On these numbers, we would have a right bloc coalition back in power. Long way to go. Continue reading...
