2011 New Zealand general election

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2011 New Zealand general election
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All 121 seats in the House of Representatives, including one overhang seat
61 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout2,278,989 (74.21%) Decrease5.25%
  First party Second party Third party
 
John Key headshot.jpg
Phil Goff.jpg
Aotearoa New Zealand Green Leadership 2011.jpg
Leader John Key Phil Goff Russel Norman
Metiria Turei
Party National Labour Green
Leader since 27 November 2006 11 November 2008 3 June 2006
30 May 2009
Leader's seat Helensville Mount Roskill List
List
Last election 58 seats, 44.93% 43 seats, 33.99% 9 seats, 6.72%
Seats before 58 42 9
Seats won 59 34 14
Seat change Increase1 Decrease8 Increase5
Electorate vote 1,027,696
47.31%
Increase0.71 pp 		762,897
35.12%
Decrease0.10 pp 		155,492
7.16%
Increase1.53 pp
Party vote 1,058,638
47.31%
Increase2.38 pp 		614,936
27.48%
Decrease6.51 pp 		247,370
11.06%
Increase4.34 pp
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
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Maori Party Leadership 00s.jpg
Hone Harawira, Mana Party leader (cropped).jpg
Leader Winston Peters Tariana Turia
Pita Sharples 		Hone Harawira
Party NZ First
Māori Party
Mana
Leader since 18 July 1993 7 July 2004 30 April 2011
Leader's seat List Te Tai Hauāuru
Tāmaki Makaurau 		Te Tai Tokerau
Last election 0 seats, 4.07% 5 seats, 2.39% (not yet founded)
Seats before 0 4 1
Seats won 8 3 1
Seat change Increase8 Decrease1 Steady
Electorate vote 39,892
1.84%
Increase0.15 pp 		39,320
1.81%
Decrease1.53 pp 		29,872
1.38%
new
Party vote 147,544
6.59%
Increase2.52 pp 		31,982
1.43%
Decrease0.96 pp 		24,168
1.08%
new
  Seventh party Eighth party
 
Don.Brash.jpg
Peter Dunne.jpg
Leader Don Brash Peter Dunne
Party ACT United Future
Leader since 28 April 2011 16 November 2000
Leader's seat Ran in North Shore (lost)
Ōhariu
Last election 5 seats, 3.65% 1 seat, 0.87%
Seats before 5 1
Seats won 1 1
Seat change Decrease4 Steady
Electorate vote 31,001
1.43%
Decrease1.56 pp 		18,792
0.87%
Decrease0.26 pp
Party vote 23,889
1.07%
Decrease2.58 pp 		13,443
0.60%
Decrease0.27 pp
Results by electorate, shaded by winning margin
Prime Minister before election

John Key
National

Subsequent Prime Minister

John Key
National

The 2011 New Zealand general election took place on Saturday 26 November 2011[1] to determine the membership of the 50th New Zealand Parliament.

One hundred and twenty-one MPs were elected to the New Zealand House of Representatives, 70 from single-member electorates, and 51 from party lists including one overhang seat. New Zealand since 1996 has used the Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) voting system, giving voters two votes: one for a political party and the other for their local electorate MP. A referendum on the voting system was held at the same time as the election,[2] with voters voting by majority to keep the MMP system.[3]

A total of 3,070,847 people were registered to vote in the election, with over 2.2 million votes cast and a turnout of 74.21%[4] – the lowest turnout since 1887.[5] The incumbent National Party, led by John Key, gained the plurality with 47.3% of the party vote and 59 seats, two seats short of holding a majority. The opposing Labour Party, led by Phil Goff, lost ground winning 27.5% of the vote and 34 seats, while the Green Party won 11.1% of the vote and 14 seats – the biggest share of the party vote for a minor party since 1996. New Zealand First, having won no seats in 2008 due to its failure to either reach the 5% threshold or win an electorate, made a comeback with 6.6% of the vote entitling them to eight seats.

National's confidence and supply partners in the 49th Parliament meanwhile suffered losses.

Mana Party. United Future
lost party votes, but retained their one seat in Parliament.

Following the election, National reentered into confidence and supply agreements with ACT and United Future on 5 December 2011,[6][7] and with the Māori Party on 11 December 2011,[8] to form a minority government with a seven-seat majority (64 seats to 57) and give the Fifth National Government a second term in office.

Background

Election date and other key dates

The election date was set as Saturday 26 November 2011, as predicted by the media.[9] Breaking with tradition, Prime Minister John Key announced the election date in February. Traditionally, the election date is a closely guarded secret, announced as late as possible. The date follows the tradition of holding the general election on the last Saturday of November unless the schedule is interrupted by a snap election or to circumvent holding a by-election.

The

Rugby World Cup 2011
was hosted by New Zealand between 9 September and 23 October 2011, and ruled out all the possible election dates in this period. This left two possible windows for the general election: on or before 2 September and 29 October to 10 December.

Key dates of the election were:[14]

2 February 2011 Prime Minister John Key announces election to be held on 26 November
6 October 2011 Last sitting day for the 49th Parliament
20 October 2011 Governor-General Jerry Mateparae dissolves the 49th Parliament
26 October 2011 Writ Day – Governor-General issues formal direction to the Electoral Commission to hold the election.
Electoral roll closes for printing (all people enrolling after this date must cast special declaration votes).
2 November 2011 Details of candidates for election and polling places released.
9 November 2011 Advance and overseas voting begins.
25 November 2011 Advance voting ends. Overseas voting ends 4:00pm local time.
26 November 2011 Election Day – polling places open 9:00am to 7:00pm. Preliminary results released progressively after 7:00pm.
10 December 2011 Official results released
15 December 2011 Writ for election returned; official declaration of elected members

However, as the recount of the Waitakere was not completed in time for the writ to be returned on 15 December, the return of the writ was delayed to 17 December 2011.

49th Parliament, 2008–2011

Following the

Māori Party and United Future to form the Fifth National Government
. These arrangements gave the National-led government a majority of 16 seats, with 69 on confidence-and-supply in the 122-seat Parliament.

Progressives are all in opposition, although only the Labour and Progressive parties formally constitute the formal Opposition; the Greens have a minor agreement with the government but are not committed to confidence and supply
support.

At the 2008 election, the National Party had 58 seats, the Labour Party 43 seats, Green Party 9 seats, ACT and Māori Party five each, and Progressive and United Future one each. During the Parliament session, two members defected from their parties –

Mana Party. Two MPs resigned from Parliament before the end of the session, John Carter
of National and Chris Carter, but as they resigned within 6 months of an election, their seats remained vacant.

At the dissolution of the 49th parliament on 20 October 2011, National held 57 seats, Labour 42 seats, Green 9 seats, ACT 5 seats, Māori 4 seats, and Progressive, United Future and Mana one each.

Marginal seats in 2008

At the 2008 election, the following seats were won by a majority of less than 1000 votes:

Electorate Member of Parliament Incumbent party Majority Second place Second party
New Plymouth Jonathan Young National 105 Harry Duynhoven Labour
Waimakariri Clayton Cosgrove Labour 390 Kate Wilkinson National
Waitakere Paula Bennett National 632 Lynne Pillay Labour
Rimutaka
 Chris Hipkins Labour 753 Richard Whiteside National
Hauraki-Waikato Nanaia Mahuta Labour 888 Angeline Greensill
Māori Party
Christchurch Central Brendon Burns Labour 935 Nicky Wagner National
West Coast-Tasman Chris Auchinvole National 971 Damien O'Connor Labour

MPs retiring in 2011

Nineteen MPs, including all five ACT MPs and the sole Progressive MP, intended to retire at the end of the 49th Parliament. One of the ACT MPs, John Boscawen, contested Tāmaki, but did not expect to win and was not on the party list. National MP Allan Peachey died three weeks before the election.

Party Name Electorate
ACT Roger Douglas (List) [15]
Rodney Hide Epsom [16][17]
Heather Roy (List) [18]
Hilary Calvert (List) [19]
John Boscawen (List) [20]
Green Sue Kedgley (List) [21][22]
Keith Locke (List) [23]
Progressive Jim Anderton Wigram [24]
Labour Ashraf Choudhary (List) [25]
George Hawkins Manurewa [26]
Pete Hodgson Dunedin North [27]
Lynne Pillay (List) [28]
Mita Ririnui (List) [29]
National John Carter Northland [30]
Sandra Goudie Coromandel [31]
Wayne Mapp North Shore [32]
Simon Power Rangitīkei [33]
Allan Peachey Tāmaki [34]
Georgina te Heuheu (List) [35]

Electorate boundaries

Advance voting in campervans in Christchurch. Campervans were used as many of the polling stations used at previous elections are unavailable due to the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes.

Electorates in the election were the same as at the 2008 election.

Electorates and their boundaries in New Zealand are reviewed every five years after the

2006 census. The next review is not due until 2014, following the 2013 census (the 2011 census was cancelled due to the 22 February 2011 Christchurch earthquake
).

Election procedures

On 17 September 2010, Justice Minister Simon Power announced the government was introducing legislation making this the first election where voters would be able to re-enrol completely on-line. Enrolments on-line beforehand still required the election form to be printed, signed, and sent by post.[36]

Voters in the Christchurch region were encouraged to cast their votes before election day if they had doubt about being able to get to a polling booth on election day or to avoid long queues, as many traditional polling booths are unavailable due to the earthquakes. Nineteen advance voting stations were made available, with three of them campervans, which are usually only used in rural areas of New Zealand. The Christchurch Central electorate, for example, has 33 polling stations in 2011 compared to 45 in 2008.[37]

Contesting parties and candidates

Main articles:
Candidates in the New Zealand general election 2011 by electorate and Party lists in the 2011 New Zealand general election

At the close of nominations, 544 individuals had been nominated to contest the election, down from 682 at the 2008 election. Of those, 91 were list-only, 73 were electorate-only (43 from registered parties, 17 independents, and 13 from non-registered parties), and 380 contested both list and electorate.[38]

Political parties registered with the Electoral Commission on Writ Day can contest the general election as a party, allowing it to submit a party list to contend the party vote, and have a party election expenses limit in addition to individual candidate limits. At Writ Day, sixteen political parties were registered to contend the general election.[39] At the close of nominations, thirteen registered parties had put forward a party list to the commission to contest the party vote, down from nineteen in 2008.[38][40]

Party Leader(s) Party vote %
(2008 election)		 Seats
(October 2011)		 Electorate
candidates		 Party list
candidates
Parties with seats in the 49th Parliament
ACT Rodney Hide 3.65 5 50 55
Green Russel Norman / Metiria Turei 6.72 9 59 61
Labour Phil Goff 33.99 42 70 65
Mana
 Hone Harawira –[a] 1 21 20
Māori Party
 Pita Sharples / Tariana Turia 2.39 4 11 17
National John Key 44.93 57 63 65
United Future New Zealand
 Peter Dunne 0.87 1 19 15
Other parties
Alliance Andrew McKenzie / Kay Murray 0.08 – 5 14
Conservative
 Colin Craig –[a] – 52 30
Democrats
 Stephnie de Ruyter 0.05 – 14 24
Legalise Cannabis Michael Appleby 0.41 – 18 28
Libertarianz Richard McGrath 0.05 – 9 27
NZ First Winston Peters 4.07 – 31 33
^[a] Party was founded after the 2008 election

The Kiwi Party, the New Citizen Party and the Progressive Party were registered, but did not contend the election under their own banners. The Kiwi Party and the New Citizen Party stood candidates for the Conservative Party.[41]

In addition to the registered parties and their candidates, thirteen candidates from nine non-registered parties contested electorates. The

Human Rights Party contested Auckland Central, the Communist League Manukau East and Mount Roskill, the Nga Iwi Morehu Movement contested Hauraki-Waikato and Te Tai Hauauru, the Pirate Party contested Hamilton East and Wellington Central, the Sovereignty Party contested Clutha-Southland and Te Tai Hauauru, Economic Euthenics contested Wigram, New Economics contested Wellington Central, Restore All Things In Christ contested Dunedin South, and the Youth Party
contested West Coast-Tasman.

Seventeen independent candidates also contested the electorates in thirteen electorates: Christchurch Central, Coromandel, Epsom (two), Hamilton West (two), New Plymouth, Ōtaki, Rangitikei (two), Rongotai, Tāmaki (two), Tauranga, Waitaki, Wellington Central, and Ikaroa-Rawhiti

Campaigning

Epsom and the Tea Tape scandal

Main article:
Tea Tape scandal

On 11 November, National Party leader John Key met with

The Herald on Sunday newspaper, and subsequently created a media frenzy over the content of the unreleased tapes.[44]

Debates

TV3 hosted a single debate between the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition.[46]

Date Host Leaders Presenter / Moderator
30 October TVNZ Don Brash, Metiria Turei, Hone Harawira, Pita Sharples, Peter Dunne Paul Holmes
Highlights – The debate included a variety of topics, ranging from the age of superannuation eligibility to youth unemployment to asset sales. Peter Dunne won the debate, with Metiria Turei coming second.[47]
31 October TVNZ John Key, Phil Goff
Mark Sainsbury / Guyon Espiner
Highlights – The economy, asset sales, the cost of living, education, welfare, environment and mining, crisis management and recovery, leadership and New Zealand's involvement in Afghanistan. A text poll conducted alongside gave the debate to John Key with 61%.[48]
16 November TVNZ Don Brash, Russel Norman, Hone Harawira, Tariana Turia, Winston Peters, Peter Dunne Mark Sainsbury / Guyon Espiner
Highlights – The debate included the economy, the age of superannuation eligibility, Māori affairs, the environment, the Emissions Trading Scheme, the
voting system referendum, and potential partners after the election. A text poll conducted alongside gave the debate to Winston Peters with 36%, with Hone Harawira coming second with 27%.[49][50]
21 November TV3 John Key, Phil Goff John Campbell
Highlights – A studio audience of undecided voters gave positive or negative reactions to the leaders, which showed up on a reactor worm. Aside from claims that the studio audience was biased, Phil Goff won the debate.[51]
23 November TVNZ John Key, Phil Goff Mark Sainsbury / Guyon Espiner
Highlights – to be completed

Pre-election coalition preferences

The National Party ruled out working with New Zealand First's Winston Peters after the election.[52] ACT confirmed it would work with National after the elections.

The Labour Party leader

Mana Party, but left open the possibility of reaching an agreement with New Zealand First.[53]

In the 16 November minor parties debate, leaders from the minor parties stated their preferences:[48]

  • The Green's preference was it would work in a coalition government with Labour, but wouldn't completely rule out working with National.
  • Mana would not work in a coalition government with National and/or ACT
  • Māori would not work in a coalition government with ACT.
  • No preference was stated for New Zealand First, but later said it would not work with National or Labour.
  • United Future ruled out working with Labour

Media bias

A Massey University study released in November 2012 suggested newspaper coverage was favourable towards National and John Key. In the month leading up to the election, the big four newspapers in New Zealand –

The Sunday Star-Times – printed 72 percent more photos of Key than his opponent, Phil Goff, and devoted twice as many column inches of text coverage.[54]

Opinion polling

Main article: Opinion polling for the 2011 New Zealand general election
Graphical representation of poll results

The nature of the Mixed Member Proportional voting system, whereby the share of seats in Parliament a party gets is determined by its share of the nationwide party vote, means aside from normal polling bias and error, opinion polling in New Zealand is fairly accurate in predicting the outcome of an election compared with other countries.

Opinion polls were undertaken periodically since the 2008 election by

One News Colmar Brunton), with polls having also being conducted by Fairfax Media
(Fairfax Media Research International) since July 2011. The graph on the right shows the collated results of all five polls for parties that have polled above the 5% electoral threshold.

After the 2008 election, National gained in popularity, and since 2009 has regularly polled in the 50–55% range, peaking at 55% in August 2009 and October 2011, before falling to 51% in the week before the election. Labour and Green meanwhile kept steady after the election at 31–34% and 7–8% respectively until July 2011, when Labour started to lose support, falling to just 26% before the election. The majority of Labour's loss was the Green's gain, rising to 13% in the same period. No other party peaked on average above 5% in the period.

Results

Parliamentary parties

Party vote percentage

  
United Future
(0.60%)
  Other (0.73%)
Seating diagram, after 2011 election
Summary of the 26 November 2011 election for the House of Representatives[55]
Party Party vote Electorate vote Seats
Votes % Change
(
pp
) 		Votes % Change
(
pp
) 		List Electorate Total +/-
National 1,058,636 47.31 Increase2.38 1,027,696 47.31 Increase0.71 17 42 59 Increase1
Labour 614,937 27.48 Decrease6.50 762,897 35.12 Decrease0.10 12 22 34 Decrease9
Green 247,372 11.06 Increase4.33 155,492 7.16 Increase1.53 14 0 14 Increase5
NZ First 147,544 6.59 Increase2.53 39,892 1.84 Increase0.15 8 0 8 Increase8
Māori Party
 31,982 1.43 Decrease0.96 39,320 1.81 Decrease1.53 0 3 3 Decrease2
Mana 24,168 1.08 new 29,872 1.38 new 0 1 1 new
ACT 23,889 1.07 Decrease2.58 31,001 1.43 Decrease1.56 0 1 1 Decrease4
United Future 13,443 0.60 Decrease0.27 18,792 0.87 Decrease0.26 0 1 1 Steady
Conservative
 59,237 2.65 new 51,678 2.38 new 0 0 0 new
Legalise Cannabis 11,738 0.52 Increase0.12 6,384 0.29 Increase0.12 0 0 0 Steady
Democrats
 1,714 0.08 Increase0.03 2,255 0.10 Increase0.02 0 0 0 Steady
Libertarianz 1,595 0.07 Increase0.02 1,459 0.07 Decrease0.01 0 0 0 Steady
Alliance 1,209 0.05 Decrease0.03 1,245 0.06 Decrease0.02 0 0 0 Steady
Unregistered parties — — — 1,557 0.07 Increase0.01 — 0 Steady
Independent
 — — — 2,894 0.13 Decrease0.40 — 0 Steady
Valid votes 2,237,464 98.18 Decrease0.48 2,172,434 95.32 Decrease1.47
Informal votes 19,872 0.87 Increase0.37 53,332 2.34 Increase1.27
Disallowed votes 21,653 0.95 Increase0.11 53,223 2.34 Increase0.20
Below electoral threshold 75,493 3.31 — — —
Total 2,278,989 100 2,278,989 100 51 70 121 Decrease1
Eligible voters and Turnout 3,070,847 74.21 Decrease5.25 3,070,847 74.21 Decrease5.25

Votes summary

Constituency Vote
National
 
 47.31%
Labour
 
 35.12%
Green
 
 7.16%
Conservative
 
 2.38%
NZ First
 
 1.84%
Māori
 
 1.81%
ACT
 
 1.43%
Mana
 
 1.38%
United Future
 
 0.87%
Others
 
 0.70%
Party Vote
National
 
 47.31%
Labour
 
 27.48%
Green
 
 11.06%
NZ First
 
 6.59%
Conservative
 
 2.65%
Māori
 
 1.43%
Mana
 
 1.08%
ACT
 
 1.07%
United Future
 
 0.60%
Others
 
 0.73%
Parliament seats
National
 
 48.76%
Labour
 
 28.09%
Green
 
 11.57%
NZ First
 
 6.61%
Māori
 
 2.47%
Mana
 
 0.83%
ACT
 
 0.83%
United Future
 
 0.83%

Electorate results

Party affiliation of winning electorate candidates.

Prior to the election, the National Party held the majority of the electorate seats with 41. Labour held 20 seats, Māori held four seats, and ACT, Mana, Progressive, United Future and an ex-Labour independent held one seat each.

After the election, National gained one seat to hold 42 seats, Labour gained three seats to hold 23 electorates, Māori lost one seat to hold three, and ACT, Mana, and United Future held steady with one seat each.[56] A National or Labour candidate took second place in all the general electorates except Rodney, where it was Conservative Party leader Colin Craig.[57]

In eleven electorates, the incumbents did not seek re-election, and new MPs were elected. In Coromandel, North Shore, Northland, Rangitikei, Rodney and Tāmaki, the seats were passed from incumbent National MPs to new National MPs; in Epsom, the seat was passed from the incumbent ACT MP to the new ACT MP; and in Dunedin North and Manurewa, the seats were passed from incumbent Labour MPs to new Labour MPs. Labour also won Te Atatū from the retiring ex-Labour independent, and Wigram from the retiring Progressive MP.

Of the 59 seats where the incumbent sought re-election, four changed hands. In

judicial recount.[58][59]
Despite losing their electorate seats, Chris Auchinvole and Clayton Cosgrove were re-elected into parliament via the party list.

On election night, Waitakere was won by incumbent National MP Paula Bennett with a 349-vote majority over Labour's Carmel Sepuloni. On official counts, it swung to Sepuloni with a majority of 11 votes, and Bennett subsequently requested a judicial recount, and on the recount, the seat swung back to Bennett with a majority of nine votes.[60] Bennett was declared elected, and Sepuloni was not returned via the party list due to her list ranking, being replaced in the Labour caucus with Raymond Huo.

Five electorates returned with the winner having a majority of less than one thousand – Waitakere (9), Christchurch Central (47), Waimakariri (642), Auckland Central (717) and Tāmaki Makaurau (936).[56]

The table below shows the results of the 2011 general election:

Key:

  National   Labour   NZ First   ACT
  United Future   
Māori Party
 		  
Mana Party
 		  
Conservative
Electorate results of the 2011 New Zealand general election[61]
Electorate Incumbent Winner Majority Runner up
Auckland Central Nikki Kaye 717 Jacinda Ardern
Bay of Plenty Tony Ryall 17,760 Carol Devoy-Heena
Botany Pansy Wong Jami-Lee Ross 10,741 Chao-Fu Wu
Christchurch Central
 Brendon Burns Nicky Wagner 47 Brendon Burns
Christchurch East
 Lianne Dalziel 5,334 Aaron Gilmore
Clutha-Southland
 Bill English 16,168 Tat Loo
Coromandel Sandra Goudie Scott Simpson 12,740 Hugh Kininmonth
Dunedin North Pete Hodgson David Clark 3,489 Michael Woodhouse
Dunedin South
 Clare Curran 4,175 Jo Hayes
East Coast Anne Tolley 4,774 Moana Mackey
East Coast Bays Murray McCully 14,641 Vivienne Goldsmith
Epsom Rodney Hide John Banks 2,261 Paul Goldsmith
Hamilton East David Bennett 8,275 Sehai Orgad
Hamilton West Tim Macindoe 4,418 Sue Moroney
Helensville John Key 21,066 Jeremy Greenbrook-Held
Hunua Paul Hutchison 16,797 Richard Hills
Hutt South
 Trevor Mallard 4,825 Paul Quinn
Ilam Gerry Brownlee 13,312 John Parsons
Invercargill Eric Roy 6,263 Lesley Soper
Kaikōura Colin King 11,445 Liz Collyns
Mana Kris Faafoi 2,230 Hekia Parata
Māngere William Sio 15,159 Claudette Hauiti
Manukau East
 Ross Robertson 15,838 Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi
Manurewa George Hawkins Louisa Wall 8,610 Cam Calder
Maungakiekie Sam Lotu-Iiga 3,021 Carol Beaumont
Mt Albert
 David Shearer 10,021 Melissa Lee
Mt Roskill
 Phil Goff 7,271 Jackie Blue
Napier Chris Tremain 3,701 Stuart Nash
Nelson Nick Smith 7,088 Maryan Street
New Lynn David Cunliffe 5,190 Tim Groser†
New Plymouth Jonathan Young 4,270 Andrew Little†
North Shore Wayne Mapp Maggie Barry 15,228 Ben Clark
Northcote Jonathan Coleman 9,379 Paula Gillon
Northland John Carter Mike Sabin 11,362 Lynette Stewart
Ōhariu
 Peter Dunne 1,392 Charles Chauvel
Ōtaki Nathan Guy 5,231 Peter Foster
Pakuranga Maurice Williamson 13,846 Sunny Kaushal
Palmerston North Iain Lees-Galloway 3,285 Leonie Hapeta
Papakura Judith Collins 9,890 Jerome Mika
Port Hills Ruth Dyson 3,097 David Carter†
Rangitata Jo Goodhew 6,537 Julian Blanchard
Rangitīkei Simon Power Ian McKelvie 9,382 Josie Pagani
Rimutaka
 Chris Hipkins 3,286 Jonathan Fletcher
Rodney Lockwood Smith Mark Mitchell 12,222 Colin Craig
Rongotai Annette King 9,047 Chris Finlayson†
Rotorua Todd McClay 7,357 Steve Chadwick
Selwyn Amy Adams 19,451 Jo Mclean
Tāmaki Allan Peachey Simon O'Connor 17,786 Nick Iusitini Bakulich
Taranaki-King Country
 Shane Ardern 15,089 Rick Barker
Taupō Louise Upston 14,115 Frances Campbell
Tauranga Simon Bridges 17,264 Deborah Mahuta-Coyle
Te Atatū Chris Carter Phil Twyford 5,416 Tau Henare†
Tukituki Craig Foss 9,660 Julia Haydon-Carr
Waikato Lindsay Tisch 14,198
Kate Sutton
Waimakariri Clayton Cosgrove Kate Wilkinson 642 Clayton Cosgrove†
Wairarapa John Hayes 7,135 Michael Bott
Waitakere Paula Bennett 9 Carmel Sepuloni
Waitaki Jacqui Dean 14,143 Barry Monks
Wellington Central Grant Robertson 6,376 Paul Foster-Bell
West Coast-Tasman
 Chris Auchinvole Damien O'Connor 2,539 Chris Auchinvole†
Whanganui Chester Borrows 5,046 Hamish McDouall
Whangarei
 Phil Heatley 12,447 Pat Newman
Wigram Jim Anderton Megan Woods 1,500 Sam Collins
Māori Electorates
Hauraki-Waikato
 Nanaia Mahuta 5,935 Angeline Greensill
Ikaroa-Rāwhiti
 Parekura Horomia 6,541 Na Raihania
Tāmaki Makaurau
 Pita Sharples 936 Shane Jones
Te Tai Hauāuru
 Tariana Turia 3,221 Soraya Peke-Mason
Te Tai Tokerau
 Hone Harawira 1,165 Kelvin Davis
Te Tai Tonga
 Rahui Katene Rino Tirikatene 1,475 Rahui Katene
Waiariki Te Ururoa Flavell 1,883 Annette Sykes
  • ^† These people entered Parliament at the election as list MPs
Notes

^† These people subsequently entered Parliament at the election as list MPs

List results

Main article: Party lists in the 2011 New Zealand general election
Highest polling party in each electorate.

The election was notable for the entry in Parliament of New Zealand's first ever profoundly deaf MP, Mojo Mathers, number 14 on the Green Party's list.[62][63]

National Labour Green NZ First
Kanwal Singh Bakshi (35)
Jian Yang (36)
Alfred Ngaro (37)
Katrina Shanks (38)
Paul Goldsmith (39)
Tau Henare (40)
Chris Auchinvole (43)
Jackie Blue (46)
Cam Calder
(50) 		David Parker (04)
Maryan Street (07)
Clayton Cosgrove (08)
Sue Moroney (10)
Charles Chauvel (11)
Jacinda Ardern (13)
Andrew Little (15)
Shane Jones (16)
Darien Fenton (18)
Moana Mackey (19)
Rajen Prasad (20)
Raymond Huo (21) 		Metiria Turei (01)
Russel Norman (02)
Kevin Hague (03)
Catherine Delahunty (04)
Kennedy Graham (05)
Eugenie Sage (06)
Gareth Hughes (07)
David Clendon (08)
Jan Logie (09)
Steffan Browning (10)
Denise Roche (11)
Holly Walker (12)
Julie Anne Genter (13)
Mojo Mathers (14) 		Winston Peters (01)
Tracey Martin (02)
Andrew Williams (03)
Richard Prosser (04)
Barbara Stewart (05)
Brendan Horan (06)
Denis O'Rourke (07)
Asenati Taylor (08)

Unsuccessful list candidates

National
Linda Cooper
, Karl Varley
Labour
Anahila Suisuiki, Hamish McDouall, Louis Te Kani, Tat Loo, Soraya Peke-Mason
, Julian Blanchard, Peter Foster, Pat Newman, Julia Haydon-Carr, Michael Bott, Vivienne Goldsmith, Nick Bakulich, Chris Yoo, Barry Monks, Hugh Kininmonth, Jo Kim, Paula Gillon, Carol Devoy-Heena, Ben Clark, Chao-Fu Wu
Green James Shaw, David Hay, Richard Leckinger, Aaryn Barlow, Jeanette Elley, Sea Rotmann, Michael Gilchrist, Dora Langsbury, David Kennedy, Tane Woodley, Joseph Burston, Mikaere Curtis, Shane Gallagher, Saffron Toms, Stephen Tollestrup, Zachary Dorner, Paul Bailey, Rick Bazeley, Maree Brannigan, Caroline Conroy, Sue Coutts, Pauline Evans, Rachael Goldsmith, Cameron Harper, John Kelcher, Alex Kruize, Tom Land, Gerrie Ligtenberg, Jim MacDonald, Nick Marryatt, Zane McCarthy, Jack McDonald, Ian McLean, John Milnes, Darryl Monteith, Robert Moore, Teresa Moore, David Moorhouse, Todd Ross, Brett Stansfield, Geoff Steedman, Gary Stewart, Vernon Tava, Corrina Tucker, Pieter Watson, Charmaine Watts, Richard Wesley
NZ First Helen Mulford, Hugh Barr, Fletcher Tabuteau, Pita Paraone, Brent Catchpole, Ben Craven, Jerry Ho, Bill Gudgeon, Kevin Gardener, Ray Dolman, David Scott, Randall Ratana, Mahesh Bindra, Edwin Perry, Dion Jelley, John Hall, Kevin Stone, Doug Nabbs, Brett Pierson, Olivia Ilalio, Gordon Stewart, Tamati Reid, Ian Brougham, Bill Woods, Allen Davies
Conservative
 Colin Craig, Kathy Sheldrake, Larry Baldock, Fa'avae Gagamoe, Brian Dobbs, Roy Brown, Simonne Dyer, Simon Kan, Litia Simpson, Kevin Campbell, Paul Young, Leighton Baker, Feleti Key, Claire Holley, Frank John Naea, Frank Poching, Jesse Misa, Bob Daw, Lance Gedge, Robyn Jackson, Pat Gregory, Timothy de Vries, Melanie Taylor, Cynthia Liu, Craig Jensen, Oliver Vitali, Danny Mountain, Ivan Bailey, Brent Reid, Michael Cooke
Māori Party
 Waihoroi Shortland, Kaapua Smith, Wheturangi Walsh-Tapiata, Tina Porou, Awanui Black,
Davina Murray
, Josie Peita, Paora Te Hurihanganui, Fallyn Flavell, Daryl Christie, Tom Phillips, Tim Morrison, Tamai Nicholson, Aroha Rickus
ACT
Toby Hutton, Daniel Stratton, Robert Burnside, Hayden Fitzgerald, Alex Speirs, Peter McCaffrey, Shane Atkinson, Allan Birchfield, Robin Boom, Stephen Boyle, Barry Brill, Ian Carline, Tom Corbett, Casey Costello, Alwyn Courtenay, Alan Daniel Davidson, Kimberly Hannah, Beth Houlbrooke, Paul Hufflett, Rosanne Jollands, Nick Kearney, Tim Kronfeld, Joel Latimer, Jonathan Macfarlane, Garry Mallett
, Guy McCallum, Colin Nicholls, John Norvill, David Peterson, James Read, Geoff Russell, Andrew Sharrock, Barbara Steinijans, Michael Warren, Vince Ashworth
United Future New Zealand
 Doug Stevens, Rob Eaddy, Sultan Eusoff, Alan Simmons, Bryan Mockridge, Vanessa Roberts, Pete George, Ram Prakash, Martin Gibson, Clyde Graf, Damian Light, Andrew McMillan, Diane Brown, Brian Carter, Johnny Miller, Ian Gaskin
Mana
 Annette Sykes, John Minto, Sue Bradford, Misty Harrison, James Papali’i, Tawhai McClutchie, Angeline Greensill, Jayson Gardiner, Richard Shortland Cooper, Peter Cleave, Val Irwin, Sharon Stevens, Keriana Reedy, Pat O'Dea, Rod Paul, Grant Rogers, Te Nguha Huirama-Patuwai, Barry Tumai, Ngawai Herewini
Legalise Cannabis Michael Appleby, Michael Britnell, Maki Herbert, Julian Crawford, Jeff Lye, Jasmin Hewlett, Emma-Jane Mihaere-Kingi, Steven Wilkinson, Richard Goode, Fred MacDonald, Leo Biggs, Jay Fitton, Romana Manning, Geoff McTague, Jamie Dombroski, Christine Mitchell, Dwayne Sherwood, Abe Gray, Sean Norris, Adrian McDermott, Philip Pophristoff, Neville Yates, Mark Bradford, Blair Anderson, Kevin O'Connell, Paula Lambert, Irinka Britnell, Paul McMullan
Democrats
 Stephnie de Ruyter, John Pemberton, Warren Voight, Katherine Ransom, Carolyn McKenzie, Hessel van Wieren, Heather Smith, Jeremy Noble, Barry Pulford, John McCaskey, Huia Mitchell, Ken Goodhue, Les Port, Robert Mills, Harry Alchin-Smith, Errol Baird, Peter Adcock-White, John Ring, Kelly Balsom, David Espin, Ross Hayward, Gary Gribben, Ron England, David Tranter
Libertarianz Richard McGrath, Sean Fitzpatrick, Peter Cresswell, Reagan Cutting, Peter Osborne, Michael Murphy, Shane Pleasance, Robert Palmer, Bernard Darnton, Helen Hughes, Colin Cross, Nik Haden, Luke Howison, Phil Howison, Andrew Couper, Mike Webber, Bruce Whitehead, Donald Rowberry, Ken Riddle, Peter Linton, Allan Munro, Ian Hayes, Shirley Riddle, Callum McPetrie, Elahrairah Zamora, Euan McPetrie, Mitch Lees
Alliance Kay Murray, Andrew McKenzie,
Jim Flynn, Paul Piesse, Victor Billot
, Mary O'Neill, Kelly Buchanan, Robert van Ruyssevelt, Jen Olsen, Tom Dowie, Thomas O'Neill, Eunice Billot, Norman MacRitchie
Notes
  1. These party list members would eventually enter parliament in the term as other list MPs elected resigned from parliament.
  2. These party list members have since resigned.

Changes in MPs

In total, 25 new MPs were elected to Parliament, and three former MPs returned.

New MPs: Scott Simpson, Maggie Barry, Mike Sabin, Ian McKelvie, Mark Mitchell, Simon O'Connor, Alfred Ngaro, Jian Yang, Paul Goldsmith, David Clark, Rino Tirikatene, Megan Woods, Andrew Little, Eugenie Sage, Jan Logie, Steffan Browning, Denise Roche, Holly Walker, Julie Anne Genter, Tracey Martin, Andrew Williams, Richard Prosser, Denis O'Rourke, Asenati Taylor, Brendan Horan

Returning MPs: John Banks, Winston Peters, Barbara Stewart

Defeated MPs: Paul Quinn, Steve Chadwick, Stuart Nash, Carmel Sepuloni, Rick Barker, Rahui Katene

Defeated MPs who later returned during the 50th Parliament Aaron Gilmore, Carol Beaumont, Kelvin Davis

Election expenses

The Electoral Commission released party electoral expense returns on 21 March 2012, stating how much each party spent on campaigning between 26 August and 25 November 2011. Candidate only expenses were excluded.[64]

Of note in the party expenses was the $1.88 million spent by the Conservative Party, spending more than but gaining less than one-tenth of the votes of the Labour Party. Translated into dollars spent per party vote gained, the Conservatives spent $31.71 per vote, compared to Labour's $2.91 and National's $2.19.

Party Campaign expenditure Party votes received Expenditure per party vote
National $2,321,216 1,058,636 $2.19
Conservative
 $1,878,486 59,237 $31.71
Labour $1,789,152 614,937 $2.91
Green $779,618 247,372 $3.15
ACT $617,035 23,889 $25.83
NZ First $155,903 147,544 $1.06
Māori Party
 $72,173 31,982 $2.26
Mana
 $60,082 24,168 $2.49
Democrats
 $34,676 1,714 $20.23
United Future New Zealand
 $27,719 13,443 $2.06
Legalise Cannabis $4,003 11,738 $0.34
Libertarianz $2,760 1,595 $1.73
Alliance $2,407 1,209 $1.99
Total/Average $7,745,081 2,237,464 $3.46

Post-election events

Changes in party leadership

For the ACT party the mediocre election results on 26 November 2011 (1.1% of the party vote, with no list MPs, 1 electorate MP) resulted in Don Brash tendering his resignation as leader, stating that he took full responsibility for the party's poor performance.[65][66]

On 29 November the leader of the Labour party Phil Goff and the deputy leader Annette King tendered their resignations to a meeting of the caucus, effective on Tuesday 13 December 2011.[67] After a fortnight-long leadership campaign and election, David Shearer, with deputy Grant Robertson, won Labour caucus support over the ticket of David Cunliffe and Nanaia Mahuta.[68]

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Further reading

  • Johansson, Jon; Levine, Stephen (2012). Kicking the tyres: the New Zealand general election and electoral referendum of 2011. Wellington, N.Z.: Victoria University Press.
    ISBN 9780864738349
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