2017 New Zealand general election

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2017 New Zealand general election

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All 120 seats in the House of Representatives
61 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout2,630,173 (79.8%) Increase1.9%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Bill English July 2017.jpg
Jacinda Ardern, 2018.jpg
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Leader Bill English Jacinda Ardern Winston Peters
Party National Labour NZ First
Leader since 12 December 2016 1 August 2017 18 July 1993
Leader's seat List Mount Albert List
(lost Northland)
Last election 60 seats, 47.04% 32 seats, 25.13% 11 seats, 8.66%
Seats before 59 32 12
Seats won 56 46 9
Seat change Decrease3 Increase14 Decrease3
Electorate vote 1,114,367
44.05%
Decrease 2.03 pp
958,155
37.88%
Increase 3.75 pp
137,816
5.45%
Increase 2.32 pp
Party vote 1,152,075
44.45%
Decrease 2.59 pp
956,184
36.89%
Increase 11.76 pp
186,706
7.20%
Decrease 1.46 pp

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
James Shaw, 2014.jpg
David Seymour at ACT Selection Announcement for Leader and Epsom.jpg
Marama Fox and Te Ururoa Flavell.png
Leader James Shaw David Seymour Marama Fox
Te Ururoa Flavell
Party Green ACT
Māori Party
Leader since 30 May 2015 4 October 2014 October 2014
13 July 2013
Leader's seat List Epsom List
Waiariki
(lost both seats)
Last election 14 seats, 10.70% 1 seat, 0.69% 2 seats, 1.32%
Seats before 14 1 2
Seats won 8 1 0
Seat change Decrease6 Steady0 Decrease2
Electorate vote 174,725
6.91%
Decrease 0.15 pp
25,471
1.01%
Decrease 0.17 pp
53,247
2.11%
Increase 0.32 pp
Party vote 162,443
6.27%
Decrease4.43 pp
13,075
0.50%
Decrease 0.19 pp
30,580
1.18%
Decrease 0.14 pp

Map of the general election. Electorate results are shown on the left, Maori electorate results in the centre, and the list members on the right.

Prime Minister before election

Bill English
National

Subsequent Prime Minister

Jacinda Ardern
Labour

The 2017 New Zealand general election took place on Saturday 23 September 2017 to determine the membership of the

party lists. Around 3.57 million people were registered to vote in the election,[2] with 2.63 million (79.8%) turning out.[3] Advance voting proved popular, with 1.24 million votes cast before election day, more than the previous two elections combined.[4][5]

Prior to the election, the centre-right

Māori, ACT and United Future parties. It was the first election for English as incumbent Prime Minister, having replaced John Key on 12 December 2016 and the first since 1975 where both major parties had leadership changes. The main opposition parties to the National government were Labour (the official opposition), led by Jacinda Ardern, the Green Party, and New Zealand First
.

The National Party won a plurality of the seats with 56, down from 60 in 2014.[6] Labour made large gains following Jacinda Ardern becoming the party leader seven weeks prior to the election, increasing its representation from 32 to 46 seats. Labour was the only parliamentary party to gain support but a large portion came at the expense of the Green Party, who lost almost half their seats (dropping from 14 to 8) following co-leader Metiria Turei's resignation over self-admitted benefit and electoral fraud. The anti-immigration populist party New Zealand First won 9 seats, down from 12 in 2014. ACT retained its one seat. Election-night counts had National with 58 seats, Labour with 45 seats, and the Greens with 7 seats, but when special votes were counted, National lost one list seat each to the Greens and Labour.[7][8]

The election saw five parties return to Parliament, down from seven in 2014 and the lowest number since the introduction of MMP in 1996.

Ōhāriu and his successor failed to win the seat. The party voted to dissolve less than two months later.[9]

Even with support partner ACT retaining its sole seat, the existing National minority government were short of the 61 seats needed to govern, and Bill English declared that the arrangement would not be continued.[10] New Zealand First's nine seats gave it the balance of power between the National Party and the Labour–Green bloc.[11][12] On 19 October 2017, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters announced that the party was intending to form a minority coalition government with the Labour Party of 55 seats, with confidence and supply agreement from the Green Party.[13] This is the first Government in New Zealand under MMP where the most popular party is not part of the Government. The election resulted in Ardern becoming New Zealand's third female Prime Minister, and Peters being reappointed Deputy Prime Minister, a role he had first held in 1996–98. This marked an end to nine years under the Fifth National Government, and the beginning of the Sixth Labour Government of New Zealand.

Electoral system

New Zealand uses the

United Future Party was entitled to zero seats under the party vote.[14]

The majority of members in the House will form a Government. Since it is difficult for any single party to win a majority of seats under MMP, parties must generally negotiate with other parties either to form a majority coalition government or to obtain sufficient confidence and supply to operate as a minority government.[15]

Electorate boundaries in the 2017 election were the same as at the 2014 election, with 64 general electorates (48 in the North Island and 16 in the South Island), and 7 Māori electorates.[citation needed]

Electoral law changes

The Electoral Amendment Act 2017 and the Broadcasting (Election Programmes and Election Advertising) Amendment Act 2017 made a number of changes to the conduct of general elections, including:[16][17]

  • Voters no longer have to complete and sign a new enrolment form if they are already enrolled and notify of a change of address, for example, through
    New Zealand Post
    's mail redirection service.
  • The Electoral Commission no longer is required to send out nominations and polling place information to every voter by post; instead the Commission may use its discretion on how to advertise nominations and polling places.
  • Polling booths may now use electronic electoral rolls to mark off voters.
  • Counting of advance votes may now start earlier at 9:00 am (previously 2:00 pm), to take into account the increase in people voting in advance.
  • The contact information of sitting MPs, such as business cards and signage on out-of-Parliament offices, has been clarified as not constituting election advertising.
  • Election advertising is now legally prohibited in or near advance polling booths.
  • Election hoardings may now be erected nine weeks before the election (previously two months), so the first day always falls on a Saturday.
  • Parties are no longer allocated free airtime on
    Television New Zealand
    to broadcast opening and closing addresses.

Eligibility to vote

To vote in the general election, one must:

Election schedule

Unless an early election is called or the election date is set to circumvent holding a by-election, a general election is held every three years. The previous election was held on Saturday, 20 September 2014.[19]

The Governor-General must issue writs for an election within seven days of the expiration or dissolution of the current Parliament.[20] Under section 17 of the Constitution Act 1986, Parliament expires three years "from the day fixed for the return of the writs issued for the last preceding general election of members of the House of Representatives, and no longer." The writs for the 2014 election were returned on 10 October 2014, a day late due to a judicial recount of the Te Tai Tokerau electorate.[21] As a result, the 51st Parliament would have expired, if not dissolved earlier, on Tuesday, 10 October 2017. Consequently, the last day for issuance of writs of election would have been 17 October 2017. The writs must be returned within 50 days of their issuance (save for any judicial recount or death of a candidate), which would have been Wednesday, 6 December 2017.[22] Because polling day must be a Saturday[22] and two weeks is generally required for the counting of special votes, the last possible date for the 2017 general election would have been Saturday, 18 November 2017.

On 1 February 2017, Prime Minister Bill English announced that the election would be held on Saturday 23 September 2017.[23] This was the first election since 1975 that both major parties, Labour and National, contested under new leadership.

Key dates relating to the general election were as follows.[24]

1 February 2017 (Wednesday) Prime Minister Bill English announces election to be held on 23 September.
23 June 2017 (Friday) The regulated election advertising period begins.
22 July 2017 (Saturday) Election hoardings may be erected (subject to local council rules).
17 August 2017 (Wednesday) Last sitting day for the 51st Parliament.
22 August 2017 (Tuesday) The 51st Parliament is dissolved with a short ceremony on the steps of Parliament House.[25]
23 August 2017 (Wednesday) Writ day – Governor-General issues formal direction to the Electoral Commission to hold the election.
Last day to ordinarily enrol to vote (late enrolments must cast special votes).
Official campaigning begins; radio and television advertising begins.
28 August 2017 (Monday) Deadline (12:00) for registered parties to lodge bulk nominations of candidates and party lists.[26]
29 August 2017 (Tuesday) Deadline (12:00) for individual candidates to lodge nominations.[26]
30 August 2017 (Wednesday) Details of candidates for election and polling places released.
6 September 2017 (Wednesday) Overseas voting begins.
11 September 2017 (Monday) Advance voting begins.
22 September 2017 (Friday) Advance voting ends; overseas voting ends at 16:00 local time.
Last day to enrol to vote.
The regulated election advertising period ends; all election advertising must be taken down by midnight.
23 September 2017 (Saturday) Election day – polling places open 09:00 to 19:00.
Preliminary results released progressively after 19:00.
7 October 2017 (Saturday) Official results declared.
12 October 2017 (Thursday) Writ for election returned; official declaration of elected members (subject to judicial recounts).

Parties and candidates

Political parties registered with the Electoral Commission can contest the general election as a party. To register, parties must have at least 500 financial members, an auditor, and an appropriate party name.[27] A registered party may submit a party list to contest the party vote, and can have a party campaign expenses limit in addition to limits on individual candidates' campaigns. Unregistered parties and independents can contest the electorate vote only.

The following registered parties contested the general election:[28]

Party Leader(s) Founded Ideology 2014 election
% party vote Seats
National Bill English 1936 Conservatism, classical liberalism 47.04 60
Labour Jacinda Ardern 1916 Social democracy 25.13 32
Green James Shaw 1990 Green politics 10.70 14
NZ First Winston Peters 1993 Conservatism, nationalism, populism 8.66 11
Māori Party
Te Ururoa Flavell/Marama Fox 2004 Indigenous rights 1.32 2
ACT David Seymour 1994 Classical liberalism, right-libertarianism 0.69 1
United Future Damian Light 2000 Social liberalism, centrism 0.22 1
Conservative
Leighton Baker 2011 Conservatism, fiscal conservatism, social conservatism 3.99
Internet Suzie Dawson 2014
copyright reform
1.42
Mana
Hone Harawira 2011
Māori rights
1.42
Legalise Cannabis Jeff Lye 1996
Cannabis legalisation
0.46
Ban 1080 Mike Downard/Bill Wallace 2014
Opposition to 1080 poison
0.21
Democrats
Stephnie de Ruyter 1985 Social credit, economic democracy, left-wing nationalism 0.07
Opportunities Gareth Morgan 2016 Radical centrism, environmentalism not founded
Outdoors
David Haynes/Alan Simmons 2015 Environmentalism not founded
People's Party Roshan Nauhria 2015 Minority rights, cultural rights not founded

MPs who did not stand for re-election

Twenty-two members of parliament announced that they would not stand for re-election.

Name Party Electorate/List Term in office Date announced
Todd Barclay National
Clutha-Southland
2014–2017 21 June 2017[29]
Chester Borrows National Whanganui 2005–2017 29 November 2016[30]
Steffan Browning Green List 2011–2017 15 December 2016[31]
David Clendon Green List 2009–2017 7 August 2017[32]
Clayton Cosgrove Labour List 1999–2017 10 April 2016[33]
David Cunliffe Labour New Lynn 1999–2017 1 November 2016[34]
Catherine Delahunty Green List 2008–2017 15 December 2016[31]
Peter Dunne United Future Ōhāriu 1984–2017 21 August 2017[35]
Craig Foss National Tukituki 2005–2017 14 December 2016[36]
Paul Foster-Bell National List 2013–2017 26 February 2017[37]
Jo Goodhew National Rangitata 2005–2017 25 January 2017[38]
Kennedy Graham Green List 2008–2017 7 August 2017[32]
John Key National Helensville 2002–2017 5 December 2016[39]
Annette King Labour Rongotai 1984–1990; 1993–2017 1 March 2017[40]
Sam Lotu-Iiga National Maungakiekie 2008–2017 13 December 2016[41]
Murray McCully National East Coast Bays 1987–2017 15 December 2016[42]
Sue Moroney Labour List 2005–2017 30 April 2017[43]
Jono Naylor National List 2014–2017 3 November 2016[44]
Hekia Parata National List 2008–2017 19 October 2016[45]
Barbara Stewart NZ First List 2002–2008; 2011–2017 7 March 2017[46]
Lindsay Tisch National Waikato 1999–2017 20 June 2016[47]
Maurice Williamson National Pakuranga 1987–2017 26 July 2016[48]

Electorate-only or list-only MPs

  • Bill English, Steven Joyce, David Carter, and Jian Yang of National stood as list-only candidates (as in 2014).[49]
  • Andrew Little announced in January 2017 that he would not contest New Plymouth, but would run as a list-only candidate.[50]
  • Trevor Mallard announced in July 2016 that he would not contest Hutt South, but run as a list-only candidate, with the intention of becoming Speaker of the House.[51]
  • Labour announced in March 2017 that the party's six incumbent Maori electorate MPs would not contest the party list but would run as electorate-only candidates, in a challenge to the Māori Party, and to increase the number of Maori MPs in the Labour caucus.[52] After the August 2017 leadership change, it was announced that new deputy leader and Te Tai Tokerau MP Kelvin Davis would now contend the party list, as required by the constitution of the party.[53]
  • Metiria Turei stepped down as co-leader of the Green Party and after announcing that she would retire from politics at the election, withdrew her name from the party list.[54] She appeared in the list of candidates for the Te Tai Tonga electorate.[55]

Results

Preliminary results were gradually released after polling booths closed at 19:00 (

NZST) on 23 September. The preliminary count only includes advance ordinary and election day ordinary votes; it does not include any special votes. Special votes include votes from those who enrolled after the deadline of 23 August, those who voted outside their electorate (this includes all overseas votes), hospital votes, and those voters enrolled on the unpublished roll.[56]

All voting papers, counterfoils and electoral rolls are returned to the electorate's returning officer for a mandatory recount; this also includes approving and counting any special votes, and compiling a master roll to ensure no voter has voted more than once. Official results, including all recounted ordinary votes and special votes, were released by the Electoral Commission on Saturday 7 October 2017.[11]

Parties and candidates have three working days after the release of the official results to apply for a judicial recount. These recounts take place under the auspices of a District Court judge (the Chief District Court Judge in case of a nationwide recount),[57] and may delay the return of the election writ by a few days.

Party vote percentage

  
Conservative
(0.24%)
  Other (0.52%)
The House of Representatives after the election, showing the resulting kingmaker position held by NZ First.
Highest polling party in each electorate.
Summary of the 23 September 2017 election for the House of Representatives[58]
Party Party vote Electorate vote Seats
Votes % Change
(
pp
)
Votes % Change
(
pp
)
List Electorate Total +/-
National 1,152,075 44.45 Decrease2.59 1,114,367 44.05 Decrease2.0 15 41 56 Decrease4
Labour 956,184 36.89 Increase11.76 958,155 37.88 Increase3.75 17 29 46 Increase14
NZ First 186,706 7.20 Decrease1.46 137,816 5.45 Increase2.32 9 0 9 Decrease2
Green 162,443 6.27 Decrease4.43 174,725 6.91 Decrease0.15 8 0 8 Decrease6
ACT 13,075 0.50 Decrease0.19 25,471 1.01 Decrease0.17 0 1 1 Steady
Opportunities 63,261 2.44 new 26,034 1.03 new 0 0 0 new
Māori Party
30,580 1.18 Decrease0.14 53,247 2.11 Increase0.32 0 0 0 Decrease2
Legalise Cannabis 8,075 0.31 Decrease0.14 4,144 0.16 Decrease0.05 0 0 0 Steady
Conservative
6,253 0.24 Decrease3.75 6,115 0.24 Decrease3.21 0 0 0 Steady
Mana 3,642 0.14 Decrease1.28[a] 8,196 0.32 Decrease1.26[a] 0 0 0 Steady
Ban 1080 3,005 0.12 Decrease0.10 3,003 0.12 Decrease0.07 0 0 0 Steady
People's Party 1,890 0.07 new 0 0 0 new
United Future 1,782 0.07 Decrease0.15 1,285 0.05 Decrease0.58 0 0 0 Decrease1
Outdoors
1,620 0.06 new 1,357 0.05 new 0 0 0 new
Democrats
806 0.03 Decrease0.04 1,794 0.20 Decrease0.13 0 0 0 Steady
Internet 499 0.02 Decrease1.40[a] Decrease1.58[a] 0 0 0 Steady
Unregistered Parties 1,073 0.04 Steady 0 0 Steady
Independent 12,749 0.50 Increase0.34 0 0 Steady
Valid votes 2,591,896 98.54 Increase0.20 2,529,531 96.17 Increase0.20
Informal votes 10,793 0.41 Decrease0.03 30,554 1.16 Increase0.02
Disallowed votes 27,484 1.04 Decrease0.18 70,088 2.66 Decrease0.23
Below electoral threshold 121,413 4.62
Total 2,630,173 100 2,630,173 100 49 71 120 Decrease1
Eligible voters and Turnout 3,298,009 79.75 Increase1.85 3,298,009 79.75 Increase1.85
Constituency Vote
National
44.05%
Labour
37.88%
Green
6.91%
NZ First
5.45%
Māori
2.11%
Opportunities
1.03%
ACT
1.01%
Others
1.56%
Party vote
National
44.45%
Labour
36.89%
NZ First
7.20%
Green
6.27%
Opportunities
2.24%
Māori
1.18%
ACT
0.50%
Others
1.07%
Parliament seats
National
46.67%
Labour
38.33%
NZ First
7.50%
Green
6.67%
ACT
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 40. Labour held 27 seats, and NZ First, ACT, and United Future held one seat each. Between the 2014 and 2017 elections, one seat changed allegiance: in the 2015 Northland by-election, NZ First leader Winston Peters won the seat off National, after MP Mike Sabin resigned.

Fifty-five electorates saw the incumbent MP re-elected, while another 11 saw a new MP elected from the same party as the retiring incumbent.

In three electorates, the incumbent MP was defeated. Labour candidate and lawyer

Christchurch Central off National MP Nicky Wagner; Labour previously held the electorate continuously from its formation in 1946 until Wagner won it in 2011. After National lost Northland to NZ First leader Winston Peters in 2015, candidate Matt King claimed the electorate back for National from Peters. Labour candidate and former television presenter Tāmati Coffey claimed Waiariki off Māori Party MP Te Ururoa Flavell
; Flavell's defeat saw the Māori Party without an electorate seat and with the party polling below 5% in the party vote, saw the party voted out of Parliament. Coffey's win also saw Labour claim a clean sweep of the Māori electorates for the first time since the 2002 election.

In

Ōhāriu, incumbent United Future MP Peter Dunne stepped down after holding the electorate in various incarnations since 1984. Labour candidate and former police officer Greg O'Connor
subsequently claimed the electorate.

Overall, National gained one electorate to hold 41, Labour gained two electorates to hold 29, while ACT retained its one electorate seat.

Hamilton West was considered to be New Zealand's bellwether seat.[59][60] Since the formation of the electorate in 1969, the winning candidate was from the party that went on to form the government, with the exception of 1993 when it elected a Labour MP while National went on to form the government (albeit with a one-seat majority). Hamilton West, Maungakiekie and Rotorua were also regarded as bellwethers in the MMP era, swinging with the government at every election since 1996. All three electorates in the 2017 election were won by National candidates.

The table below shows the results of the 2017 general election:

Key:

  National   Labour   Green   NZ First   Opportunities
  ACT   United Future   
Māori Party
  Mana   Independent
Electorate results of the 2017 New Zealand general election
Electorate Incumbent Winner Majority Runner up Third place
Auckland Central Nikki Kaye 1,581 Helen White Denise Roche
Bay of Plenty Todd Muller 13,996 Angie Warren-Clark Lester Gray
Botany Jami-Lee Ross 12,839 Tofik Mamedov Julie Zhu
Christchurch Central
Nicky Wagner Duncan Webb 2,871 Nicky Wagner Peter Richardson
Christchurch East
Poto Williams 7,480 Jo Hayes Cathy Sweet
Clutha-Southland
Todd Barclay Hamish Walker 14,354 Cherie Chapman Mark Patterson
Coromandel Scott Simpson 14,326 Nathaniel Blomfield Scott Summerfield
Dunedin North David Clark 11,754 Michael Woodhouse Niki Bould
Dunedin South
Clare Curran 8,717 Matt Gregory Shane Gallagher
East Coast Anne Tolley 4,807 Kiri Allan Julian Tilley
East Coast Bays Murray McCully Erica Stanford 16,290 Naisi Chen Nicholas Mayne
Epsom
David Seymour
5,519 Paul Goldsmith David Parker
Hamilton East David Bennett 5,810 Jamie Strange Sam Taylor
Hamilton West Tim Macindoe 7,731 Gaurav Sharma Jo Wrigley
Helensville Vacant[b] Chris Penk 14,608 Kurt Taogaga Hayley Holt
Hunua Andrew Bayly 19,443 Baljit Kaur Jon Reeves
Hutt South
Trevor Mallard[er 1]
Chris Bishop
1,530 Ginny Andersen Virginia Horrocks
Ilam Gerry Brownlee 8,256 Raf Manji Anthony Rimell
Invercargill Sarah Dowie 5,579 Liz Craig Ria Bond
Kaikoura
Stuart Smith 10,553 Janette Walker Jamie Arbuckle
Kelston Carmel Sepuloni 7,269 Bala Beeram Nicola Smith
Mana Kris Faafoi 10,980
Euon Murrell
Jan Logie
Māngere William Sio 14,597 Agnes Loheni Elaine Dyett
Manukau East
Jenny Salesa 12,589 Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi William Flesher
Manurewa Louisa Wall 8,374 Katrina Bungard John Hall
Maungakiekie Sam Lotu-Iiga Denise Lee 2,157 Priyanca Radhakrishnan Chlöe Swarbrick
Mount Albert Jacinda Ardern 15,264 Melissa Lee Julie Anne Genter
Mount Roskill Michael Wood 6,898 Parmjeet Parmar Ricardo Menéndez March
Napier Stuart Nash 5,220 David Elliott Damon Rusden
Nelson Nick Smith 4,283 Rachel Boyack Matt Lawrey
New Lynn David Cunliffe Deborah Russell 2,825 Paulo Garcia Leilani Tamu
New Plymouth Jonathan Young 7,733 Corie Haddock Murray Chong
North Shore Maggie Barry 12,716 Romy Udanga Josh Hubbard
Northcote Jonathan Coleman 6,210 Shanan Halbert Rebekah Jaung
Northland Winston Peters Matt King 1,389 Winston Peters Willow-Jean Prime
Ōhāriu Peter Dunne Greg O'Connor 1,051 Brett Hudson
Jessica Hammond Doube
Ōtaki Nathan Guy 6,156 Rob McCann Sam Ferguson
Pakuranga Maurice Williamson Simeon Brown 14,886 Barry Kirker Suzanne Kelly
Palmerston North Iain Lees-Galloway 6,392 Adrienne Pierce Darroch Ball
Papakura Judith Collins 7,486 Jesse Pabla Toa Greening
Port Hills Ruth Dyson 7,916 Nuk Korako Eugenie Sage
Rangitata Jo Goodhew Andrew Falloon 6,331 Jo Luxton Olly Wilson
Rangitīkei Ian McKelvie 10,290 Heather Warren Rob Stevenson
Rimutaka
Chris Hipkins 8,609 Carolyn O'Fallon Stefan Grand-Meyer
Rodney Mark Mitchell 19,561 Marja Lubeck Tracey Martin
Rongotai Annette King Paul Eagle 10,900 Chris Finlayson Teall Crossen
Rotorua Todd McClay 7,901 Ben Sandford Fletcher Tabuteau
Selwyn Amy Adams 19,639 Tony Condon Chrys Horn
Tāmaki Simon O'Connor 15,402 Sam McDonald Richard Leckinger
Taranaki-King Country
Barbara Kuriger 15,259 Hilary Humphrey Robert Moore
Taupō Louise Upston 14,335 Al'a Al-Bustanji Julie Sandilands
Tauranga Simon Bridges 11,252 Jan Tinetti Clayton Mitchell
Te Atatū Phil Twyford 3,184 Alfred Ngaro David Wilson
Tukituki Craig Foss Lawrence Yule 2,813 Anna Lorck Joe Kairau
Upper Harbour Paula Bennett 9,556 Jin An James Goodhue
Waikato Lindsay Tisch Tim van de Molen 15,452 Brooke Loader Stu Husband
Waimakariri Matt Doocey 10,766 Dan Rosewarne Nikki Berry
Wairarapa Alastair Scott 2,872 Kieran McAnulty Ron Mark
Waitaki Jacqui Dean 12,816 Zélie Allan Pat Wall
Wellington Central Grant Robertson 9,963
Nicola Willis
James Shaw
West Coast-Tasman
Damien O'Connor 5,593 Maureen Pugh Kate Fulton
Whanganui Chester Borrows Harete Hipango 1,706 Steph Lewis Reginald Skipworth
Whangarei
Shane Reti 10,967 Tony Savage Shane Jones
Wigram Megan Woods 4,594 David Hiatt Richard Wesley
Māori electorates
Hauraki-Waikato
Nanaia Mahuta 9,223 Rahui Papa n/a
Ikaroa-Rāwhiti
Meka Whaitiri 4,210 Marama Fox Elizabeth Kerekere
Tāmaki Makaurau
Peeni Henare 3,809 Shane Taurima Marama Davidson
Te Tai Hauāuru
Adrian Rurawhe 1,039 Howie Tamati Jack McDonald
Te Tai Tokerau
Kelvin Davis 4,807 Hone Harawira Godfrey Rudolph
Te Tai Tonga
Rino Tirikatene 4,676 Metiria Turei
Mei Reedy-Taare
Waiariki Te Ururoa Flavell Tāmati Coffey 1,719 Te Ururoa Flavell n/a

Notes:

  1. ^ Mallard did not re-contest the electorate this election, instead contesting the party list only.

List results

The following MPs were elected from their respective party lists:

National Labour NZ First Green
Bill English (01)
David Carter (03)
Steven Joyce (04)
Chris Finlayson (09)
Michael Woodhouse (10)
Paul Goldsmith (18)
Alfred Ngaro (20)
Nicky Wagner (22)
Brett Hudson (30)
Melissa Lee (31)
Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi (32)
Jian Yang (33)
Parmjeet Parmar (34)
Jo Hayes (36)
Nuk Korako (42)
Anahila Kanongata'a-Suisuiki (37)
Kieran McAnulty (38)
Angie Warren-Clark
(39)
Winston Peters (01)
Ron Mark (02)
Tracey Martin (03)
Fletcher Tabuteau (04)
Darroch Ball (05)
Clayton Mitchell (06)
Mark Patterson (07)
Shane Jones (08)
Jenny Marcroft (09)
James Shaw (01)
Marama Davidson (02)
Julie Anne Genter (03)
Eugenie Sage (04)
Gareth Hughes (05)
Jan Logie (06)
Chlöe Swarbrick (07)
Golriz Ghahraman (08)

Changes in MPs

Two former MPs (Shane Jones and Willie Jackson) and 31 first-time MPs were elected to the 52nd Parliament, joining 87 incumbents from the 51st Parliament.

Following the retirement of Peter Dunne, Bill English (National, list) became the new Father of the House, having served as an MP continuously since 1990. While both Winston Peters and Trevor Mallard have served longer than English, their tenures have been non-continuous.

23-year-old Chlöe Swarbrick (Green, list) became the new Baby of the House. She was the youngest MP to be elected to Parliament since the election of the 23-year-old Marilyn Waring in 1975.[61]

Golriz Ghahraman (Green, list) became the first former refugee to be elected to the New Zealand Parliament.[62]

Government formation

Preliminary election results gave National 58 seats, Labour 45, New Zealand First 9, Green 7, and ACT 1,[56] leaving no party or obvious coalition able to command a parliamentary majority of 61 seats. Final results saw the National Party lose two further seats, one each to Labour and the Greens,[11] confirming New Zealand First as the election's kingmaker.[12] Both the National and Labour parties outlined planned negotiations with New Zealand First in the hope of forming a government.[10] A National–NZ First coalition would hold 65 seats, while a Labour–NZ First coalition would also need the support of the Green Party to form a majority government with 63 seats. National Party leader Bill English ruled out a formal governing arrangement with the ACT Party's sole MP David Seymour,[10][12] though such an agreement existed following the 2014 election.[63]

New Zealand First has held the balance of power in previous parliaments and its leader has served in several ministries.

Treasurer, an agreement that ended when Peters was sacked from Cabinet in August 1998.[65] Following the 2005 election, NZ First entered into a confidence and supply agreement with the minority Labour government that also saw Peters appointed as Foreign Minister but not as a member of the Cabinet.[65][66][67]

Shaw announced the Greens' negotiation team of himself, MP Eugenie Sage, acting chief of staff Tory Whanau, Green co-convenor Debs Martin and campaign staffer Andrew Campbell on 26 September.[68] Labour's negotiators were led by leader Ardern and deputy leader Davis.[69]

Negotiations concluded on 12 October, with "extensive dossiers" provided to NZ First from both Labour and National. The NZ First Board met alongside the parliamentary caucus on 16 October to begin the process of formally choosing a coalition partner.[70]

On 19 October, NZ First announced the formation of a minority coalition government with Labour. As part of the agreement, NZ First received four ministerial positions inside Cabinet and one parliamentary under-secretary position. Winston Peters also accepted an offer of the role of Deputy Prime Minister.

The Greens received three ministerial positions outside Cabinet and one parliamentary under-secretary position as a result of a confidence and supply agreement reached between them and Labour.[71]

Cabinet and ministerial roles

On 20 October 2017, the names of Labour's 16 Cabinet ministers were announced as Jacinda Ardern, David Clark, Clare Curran, Kelvin Davis, Chris Hipkins, Iain Lees-Galloway, Andrew Little, Nanaia Mahuta, Stuart Nash, Damien O'Connor, David Parker, Grant Robertson, Jenny Salesa, Carmel Sepuloni, Phil Twyford, and Megan Woods. The Labour ministers outside cabinet were Kris Faafoi, Peeni Henare, Willie Jackson, William Sio, and Meka Whaitiri.[72]

The Green Party announced on 21 October its three ministers outside cabinet and one parliamentary under-secretary slots as James Shaw, Julie Anne Genter, Jan Logie and Eugenie Sage.[73]

The final ministers to be named were from New Zealand First. On 25 October, it was announced that Ron Mark, Tracey Martin and Shane Jones would join the Cabinet, with Fletcher Tabuteau as a parliamentary under-secretary.[74][75]

Campaigning

Expense limits and broadcasting allocations

During the three-month regulated period prior to election day (i.e. 23 June to 22 September 2017), parties and candidates have limits on how much they may spend on election campaigning. It is illegal in New Zealand to campaign on election day itself.[76]

For the 2017 election, every registered party contending the party vote is permitted to spend $1,115,000 plus $26,200 per electorate candidate on election campaigning during the regulated period, excluding radio and television campaigning (broadcasting funding is allocated separately). A party contesting all 71 electorates is therefore permitted to spend $2,975,200 on election campaigning.[77] All electorate candidates are permitted to spend $26,200 each on campaigning over and above their party's allocation.[78]

Registered parties are allocated a separate broadcasting budget for radio and television campaigning. Only money from the broadcasting allocation can be used to purchase airtime; the actual production costs of advertisements can come from the general election expenses budget. The Electoral Commission sets the amount of broadcasting funds each party gets; generally the allocation is based on the number of seats in the current Parliament, previous election results, and support in opinion polls. The initial broadcasting allocation was released on 26 May 2017.[79] The broadcasting allocation was revised on 23 August 2017, redistributing funds from parties that failed to register in time for the election.[80]

Party Broadcasting allocation
National $1,370,860
Labour $1,105,533
Green $530,656
NZ First $420,102
Māori Party
$132,664
ACT $99,498
United Future $99,498
Conservative
$55,277
Internet $55,277
Mana
$55,277
Ban 1080 $44,221
Democrats
$44,221
Legalise Cannabis $44,221
Opportunities $44,221
Outdoors
$44,221

Third party promoters, such as trade unions and lobby groups, can campaign during the regulated period. The maximum expense limit is $315,000 for those promoters registered with the Electoral Commission,[81] and $12,600 for unregistered promoters.[82] As of 19 August 2017, the following third party promoters were registered:[83]

Issues

In a January 2017 poll conducted by Roy Morgan Research, 26 percent of respondents named housing supply and affordability as the most important issue facing New Zealand, while another 17 percent named poverty and income inequality.[84]

Education

On 27 August 2017, National pledged a $379 million education package. New "digital academies" focused on IT training and similar to existing trades academies, would be introduced for 1,000 year-12 and 13 students at a cost of $48 million. There would also be investments of $126 million to improve maths achievements for primary school students and $160 million to give all primary school students the opportunity to learn a second language if they wished. There would be an expansion of the National Standards scheme that would allow parents to check the progress of their child via their mobile phone.[85]

Labour leader Jacinda Ardern announced on 14 August 2017 that the party had reinstated a 2015 pledge to assist school students to learn to drive and budget. Five driving lessons and the fees for the licence test would be free, and students would be taught life skills and budgeting.[86] On 29 August, Ardern announced that Labour would implement its 2016 policy of three years free tertiary education, starting with one year in 2018 and expanding to two years in 2021 and three years in 2024. She also announced a $50 per week increase in the student allowance and student loan living costs.[87]

The ACT party continued to support partnership (charter) schools, with intentions to allow state schools to convert into partnership schools.[88] ACT leader David Seymour said on 2 September 2017 that the party would give schools $975 million more, so long as they abandon nationally negotiated union contracts. Schools would be funded $93,000 per teacher in a bulk funding arrangement and would be free to allocate the grant how they wanted, with principals able to decide how much to pay individual teachers. Teachers' pay would be boosted by $20,000 on average, and the payments would reward good teachers and attract "our brightest graduates" to careers in teaching.[89][90]

Housing

According to

Quotable Value, residential house prices across New Zealand increased 34.2% between June 2014 and June 2017, from an average of $476,000 to an average of $639,000. In the Auckland metro area, the increase was 45.5% in the same period, from $718,000 to $1,045,000.[91]

ACT announced its housing policy on 6 August 2017, proposing to scrap the urban rural boundary to free up land for those who want to subdivide and build, claiming that this would create room for 600,000 possible houses.[92]

Green Party leader James Shaw reaffirmed on 22 August the party's intention to introduce a capital gains tax, saying that it was "a priority" for the party and a measure "we want to see addressed in a first term of a new government." Shaw said the fact that New Zealand was one of the only countries in the developed world without a consistent capital gains tax had helped fuel inequality between "those who don't own a home and those who now own ten".[93]

Labour's flagship housing policy was the KiwiBuild scheme, which would aim to build 100,000 homes over 10 years.[94] Labour announced on 3 September it would extend the landlords' termination notice period to 90 days (from 42 days), abolish termination without cause, and limit rent increases to once every 12 months (from 6 months). This was in addition to previously announced policies of extending the "bright-line test" for taxing capital gains on residential properties from two years to five years, and abolishing negative gearing on investment properties.[95]

Immigration

According to Statistics New Zealand estimates, New Zealand's net migration (long-term arrivals minus long-term departures) in the June 2016/17 year was 72,300.[96] That was up from 38,300 in the June 2013/14 year.[97] Of those migrants specifying a region of settlement, 61 percent settled in the Auckland region.[98]

Labour promised to reduce net immigration by about 20–30,000 annually, partly by reducing the number of students enrolled in "low value" courses that were susceptible to being used as a subterfuge for immigration. The party said it would introduce a stricter test regime to ensure employers seek to hire New Zealanders before recruiting overseas applicants, and would require skilled migrants to stay and work in the region their visa was issued for.[99]

National planned to count migrants as "skilled" only if the job they were coming to paid more than about $49,000 a year, but the plan was opposed by employers who said their businesses would be put at risk by the blocking of foreign workers. Immigrants only needed to be paid over $41,859 a year – resulting in about 6000 more workers being able to stay in the country longer. Those earning less would be considered low-skilled and can stay in the country for a maximum of three years, after which a stand-down period applies before they can apply to come back. National planned to introduce legislation in 2018 that would raise the residency requirements for superannuation from 10 to 20 years.[99]

NZ First leader Winston Peters vowed to reduce net immigration to around 10,000 per year. Peters said that unemployed New Zealanders would be trained to take jobs as the number was reduced, and the number of older immigrants would be limited, with more bonded to the regions.[99]

The Green Party proposed that migration should be capped to 1 per cent of population growth, but later abandoned that policy due to the perception that the Greens were pandering to anti-immigrant rhetoric.

ACT had "long opposed populist attacks on immigrants", according to David Seymour.[100] ACT wanted immigrants to "demonstrate they've earned above the average wage in their field" to get residency, and it would put an end to foreigners leaving their kids in New Zealand while paying taxes overseas by implementing an "infrastructure charge" of $10 per day for a maximum of a year for all migrants.[101]

The Opportunities Party (TOP) wanted a change so that immigration would not be driven by student visas or reciprocal visitor working visas. The party also wanted to abandon the requirement for highly skilled migrants to have a job to come to.[99]

Rail transport

National Party leader and Prime Minister Bill English announced on 6 August 2017 that there would be a $267 million investment in Auckland and Wellington commuter rail, which would include (in Auckland) electrification of the line between

Upper Hutt, and several other improvements.[102]

Labour announced on 6 August 2017 that it would accelerate the building of a proposed

North Shore, a bus network between Howick and the airport, electrification from Papakura to Pukekohe, a third main line between Westfield and Papakura, and other rail and road improvements.[103][104] On 21 August 2017, the party's leader Jacinda Ardern announced a $20 million plan for a passenger rail service linking Auckland, Hamilton and Tauranga. She said that the region would grow by 800,000 people in the next 25 years, and that rail was historically a fundamental travel mode and it was time that it was again.[105]

The Green Party announced on 17 August 2017 that it would introduce a passenger rail service between Auckland, Hamilton and Tauranga on a trial basis from 2019. The party had previously said that its policy was to complete the

Epuni via central Lower Hutt and south to Island Bay.[107]

Poverty

During the leaders' debate held on 4 September 2017, National leader Bill English committed his party to a target to bring 100,000 children out of poverty within the next term. The National party policy was mainly built around their Families Package, due to be introduced in April 2018, which English said would bring 50,000 children out of poverty.[108] They would increase the tax credits for 310,000 families who receive Working for Families, and the abatement level for the tax credits would decrease from $36,350 to $35,000.[109]

At the same debate Labour leader Jacinda Ardern committed to changing the law to require that every government budget update would have to include a measurement of child poverty.[108] Labour promised to extend Working for Families to another 30,000 families, by raising the abatement threshold and increasing the tax credits. They introduced the Best Start package that would give $60 a week for each child in their first year and extend paid parental leave to 26 weeks.[110]

On 16 July 2017, the Green Party announced at their AGM that they would increase all benefits by 20% and remove all penalties and excessive sanctions to those on the benefit, looking to change the “punitive culture” at MSD.[111] They would boost the Working for Families package and raise the minimum wage to $17.75.[112]

The Māori Party set a target to eliminate all poverty by 2025, introducing a living wage for all workers and making cost of living adjustments to all benefits.[113] The party promised to increase support to grandparents raising grandchildren and expand Whānau Ora.[112]

TOP proposed an introduction of a universal basic income of $200 a week to all families with children under 3 (or under 6 if adopted), which would replace paid maternity leave. Low income families regardless of employment would get $72 a week and free child care.[114]

ACT campaigned on implementing lifetime limits of five years for the sole parent benefit and three years for the jobseeker benefit. They proposed cutting Working for Families and paid parental leave for upper income earners.[115] On 12 July 2017, ACT deputy leader Beth Houlbrooke made a Facebook post criticising Labour's Best Start package, stating "The fact is, parents who cannot afford to have children should not be having them. ACT believes in personal responsibility, meaning we stand with the majority of parents who wait and save before having children."[116]

Party campaigns

National

National was campaigning for a fourth term in government. If successful, it would have been the first four-term government since the Second National Government (1960–72), and the first four-term government under MMP.[117] National revealed the design of its first tranche of party hoardings in early July, featuring leader Bill English and the slogan "Delivering for New Zealanders".[118]

On 20 August 2017, English announced that the government, if re-elected, planned to build ten new "

Whangarei were included.[120][121]

The party announced on 13 August 2017 that it would create a new bootcamp for youth offenders at the Waiouru Military Camp. English said that there were about 150 "very serious young offenders". The justice minister said that a new Young Serious Offender (YSO) classification would be established for the group.[122]

Prime Minister Bill English and Health Minister Jonathan Coleman announced on 19 August 2017 that a new hospital costing more than $1.2 billion would be built to replace Dunedin Hospital, rather than refurbishing the existing building. It would be expected to open in 7–10 years.[123] On 21 August, English and Coleman announced a pledge that 600,000 low income people would have access to $18 doctors' visits. The Community Services Card would also be expanded to an additional 350,000 people with low incomes and high housing costs.[124]

The party's infrastructure spokesman

Whangarei Boys' High School, but several other large projects totalling several billion dollars were also being considered.[125]

Labour

Ardern campaigning at the University of Auckland, 1 September 2017

Labour announced it would reverse the tax cuts included in the 2017 Budget and instead increase Working for Families rates and introduce a new benefit for families with children under 3 years old. It also would introduce a winter heating supplement for people on superannuation and benefits.[126]

On 1 August 2017, party leader Andrew Little resigned on the back of poor opinion polling performance. Deputy leader Jacinda Ardern was unanimously elected leader by the party caucus, while Kelvin Davis was unanimously elected deputy leader to replace Ardern.[127] The leadership change saw a large boost in the Labour Party's support – the party had received $250,000 in donations and signed up 1000 volunteers within 24 hours of the leadership change, according to party secretary Andrew Kirton.[128]

The design for Labour's first tranche of party hoardings was released in early July, featuring both Little and Ardern with the slogan "A fresh approach".[118] After the change of leadership, the new hoardings solely featured Ardern with the new slogan "Let's do this".[129]

On 26 August, Ardern announced a plan to cut fees for visits to doctors. Community Services Card holders would be charged $8 for a visit to a doctor, teenagers would be charged $2, and under–13s would still pay nothing. The cost for an average adult would fall from $42 to $32.[130]

Labour's finance spokesman Grant Robertson announced on 14 September 2017, nine days before the election, that there would be "no new taxes or levies" until after the 2020 election. Any changes arising from its tax working group would not take effect until 2021. Robertson's announcement reversed the position taken by leader Jacinda Ardern who had reserved the right to implement changes before obtaining a mandate at the 2020 election, and came as a Newshub-Reid Research poll showed National rising at the expense of Labour. Labour had gone into the previous two general elections with a capital gains tax policy.[131]

Green

The Green Party launched its election campaign on 9 July in Nelson. Bryce Edwards writing for The New Zealand Herald claimed the party's policies announced in the run up to the election showed that: "After years of watering down policies and desperately trying to make themselves more respectable to the mainstream, they have made an abrupt shift to the left". One of the major announcements was the party's new radical welfare reform proposals. Social policy academic and welfare campaigner Susan St John gave the social welfare reforms a "definite thumbs up", pointing to two "breathtakingly bold policies" within the reforms. These two aspects included in the reforms were, one: "sole parents to keep their sole parent support when they attempt to repartner. She is the one to say, not WINZ [Work and Income New Zealand], when she is in a partnership in the nature of marriage". A second aspect would be to make "the In–Work Tax Credit available to all low income families".[132]

The party also announced as part of its 'Families Package' it would lower the bottom rate of tax to 9%, introduce a new top rate of tax of 40% on those with an income over $150,000 and increase all core benefits by 20%.[133]

Another policy announced by the party was the proposed introduction of an interim $0.10 per litre excise levy on bottled water. This would be in place until "a proposed working party helped develop a system to charge all commercial water users 'a fair amount'".[134]

On 16 July 2017, co-leader Metiria Turei publicly admitted that she had not disclosed to Work and Income New Zealand that she was accepting rent from flatmates while on the Domestic Purposes Benefit in the early 1990s,[135] and admitted on 3 August 2017 that she had registered a false residential address to vote for a friend who was running in the Mount Albert electorate in 1993.[136] On 7 August 2017,[137] MPs David Clendon and Kennedy Graham announced that they planned to resign as Green Party candidates for the 2017 election, due to Turei's revelations and her handling of the resulting situation.[138] Both Clendon and Graham resigned from the party caucus the following day,[139] after the party made moves to remove them involuntarily.[138]

On 9 August 2017, Turei resigned as co-leader and as a list candidate for the 2017 election, saying that the "scrutiny on [her] family has become unbearable".[140] She campaigned in the Te Tai Tonga Māori electorate,[141] and retired from Parliament at the election.[140] Per their constitution, the Green Party will choose a replacement co-leader at the next annual general meeting in 2018, leaving James Shaw as the sole party leader through the election campaign.[140][142]

On 21 August 2017, the party promised free public transport for students and those aged under 19, to be achieved by means of a "green card". Green Party transport spokeswoman Julie Anne Genter said the cost of the card would be $70–80 million.[143]

The party announced plans on 2 September 2017 to counter pollution by introducing a tax on farmers of $2 per kilogram of nitrate (fertiliser), which it said would raise about $136 million per year. The party would also distribute funds and allow concessions to the agricultural sector in response to declining water quality.[144]

Leader James Shaw said on 17 September 2017 that the party wanted a capital gains tax, exclusive of the family home, to be implemented in the first year after the election, if Labour and the Greens formed a coalition government. Labour had already said that if it became the government, any capital gains tax recommendations made by its tax working group would not be implemented until after the 2020 election.[145]

New Zealand First

New Zealand First launched its campaign in Palmerston North on 25 June 2017. Announced policies included ring-fencing GST to the regions it is collected from, writing off student loans of people willing to work outside major centres,[146] cutting net immigration to 10,000 per year, retaining the superannuation age at 65, and holding two binding referendums on whether Māori electorates should be abolished and whether the number of MPs should be reduced to 100.[147]

New Zealand First also campaigned on increasing the minimum wage to $17.[148] They would later increase it to $20.[149]

On 31 August 2017, party leader Winston Peters announced a policy of relocating the

Port of Auckland to Marsden Point by 2027.[150] Peters had vowed in July that a Northport rail connection to Marsden Point at a cost of up to $1 billion was non-negotiable in any post–election coalition between NZ First and either National or Labour.[151]

Māori

The Māori Party election campaign focused on protecting indigenous rights by providing an independent voice for Māori. The party's whānau based policies focuses on obtaining affordable housing to help Māori in low-wage jobs,[152] strengthening employment-support for Māori beneficiaries[153] and making Te Reo Māori and Māori history core curriculum subjects in all schools up to year 10.[154]

The party's policies on

rangatiratanga focused on combating climate change in the Pacific to alleviate environmental destruction of our neighbouring Pacific nation and scholarships for Māori and Pasifika students to strengthen recruitment and retention of these students in tertiary institutions.[155]

The party's policies on

tāonga[156] and growing iwi economic resources.[157] They released a policy for a new rail scheme called IwiRail[158] which they said would open up the regions to freight and tourism. Since the 2008 general election, the party provided parliamentary support to the Fifth National Government
.

In previous elections their policies included improving public transport with fewer emissions, giving tax breaks to lower income earners, taking GST off food products, and banning the use of controversial 1080 poison.[159]

ACT

Since the 2008 general election, the party provided parliamentary support to the Fifth National Government.

ACT announced policies including tax cuts, with the top personal tax bracket reducing from 33% to 25%,[160][161][non-primary source needed] and raising the age of superannuation[162] from 65 to 67 gradually every 2 months starting in 2020.[163][non-primary source needed]

The Opportunities Party (TOP)

In taxation, the party proposed to deem a minimum rate of return for all assets (including housing, land and business assets) and charge a tax on it. At the same time, reduce income tax rates so that the total tax take would remain unchanged. The changes would be done gradually to ensure house prices remain stable while incomes grow.[164] The party considered the existing tax regime to favour owners of capital and to over-tax wage earners, to favour home-owners and to disadvantage those who rent their home, and to encourage investment in real estate rather than productive businesses.[165]

They would tighten immigration laws and shift the focus to attracting highly skilled migrants. Criteria for immigrants would involve demonstrating they can help improve the living standards of all New Zealanders, limiting net immigration to 1% population growth per annum (i.e. 47,900 based on June 2017 population),[166] and making access to permanent residency harder and longer.[167]

The party's founder, Gareth Morgan, announced plans to almost halve the number of prison inmates by 2027. Morgan said "New Zealand has some of the world's worst and most outdated criminal justice policies", and to reduce the prison population by 40%, the party wanted to scrap the 'three strikes' law, extend eligibility for the Youth Court to offenders under 20, and increase funding for restorative justice.[168]

United Future

On 21 August 2017, United Future leader and sole MP Peter Dunne announced that he was quitting politics at the election, citing recent polling and his perception that there was a mood for change in his seat of Ōhāriu.[169] United Future's candidate for the Botany electorate took over as leader shortly after, promising to move his party towards Labour because of its stance on social issues.[170]

Major debates

Television New Zealand (

Breakfast host Jack Tame.[172]

To be able to participate in their multiparty leaders debate, TVNZ requires a party to have an MP already in parliament, or be polling above 3% in the most recent One News/Colmar Brunton poll. Polling at 1.9%, new party TOP met neither of those criteria. Party leader Gareth Morgan filed an urgent judicial review, arguing that as he was polling higher than ACT, United Future and the Mãori party (who all fit the criteria by having at least one MP in parliament), his party had a right to be involved in the debates and TOP's exclusion was problematic. The case was heard at the Auckland High Court on 7 September, with the judge ultimately ruling against Morgan.[173][174]

Three hosted one television leaders' debate between the National and Labour leaders on 4 September. The debate was moderated by Newshub political editor Patrick Gower.[175]

Stuff Leaders Debate (formerly called The Press Leaders Debate), between the National and Labour leaders on 7 September. It was moderated by Fairfax's South Island editor-in-chief Joanna Norris and Stuff political editor Tracy Watkins, and was streamed online.[176]

Date Organiser(s) Subject Participants
National Labour Green NZ First
Māori
ACT United Future Mana TOP
22 August
Māori TV[177]
Māori voters Absent Present
Davis
Present
Shaw
Absent Present
Flavell
Absent Absent Present
Harawira
Present
Morgan
26 August
Three[178]
Not invited Not invited Present
Shaw
Absent Present
Fox
Present
Seymour
Absent Present
Harawira
Present
Morgan
30 August ASB / Newshub[179] Finance Present
Joyce
Present
Robertson
Present
Shaw
Present
Peters
Not invited Present
Seymour
Not invited Not invited Not invited
31 August
TVNZ[172]
Present
English
Present
Ardern
Not invited Not invited Not invited Not invited Not invited Not invited Not invited
4 September
Three[175]
Present
English
Present
Ardern
Not invited Not invited Not invited Not invited Not invited Not invited Not invited
6 September The Spinoff[180] Present
Bennett
Present
Davis
Present
Davidson
Present
Jones
Present
Fox
Present
Seymour
Not invited Not invited Present
Morgan
7 September
Stuff[176]
Present
English
Present
Ardern
Not invited Not invited Not invited Not invited Not invited Not invited Not invited
8 September Absent Absent Present
Shaw
Absent Present
Fox
Present
Seymour
Present
Light
Not invited Not invited[173]
14 September
Stuff[182]
Finance Present
Joyce
Present
Robertson
Not invited Not invited Not invited Not invited Not invited Not invited Not invited
14 September
TVNZ[172]
Young voters Present
Bishop
Present
Faafoi
Present
Swarbrick
Present
Ball
Present
Stoddart-Smith
Present
Seymour
Present
Light
Not invited Not invited
19 September WWF NZ[183] Environment Present
Bayly
Present
Woods
Present
Shaw
Present
O'Rourke
Present
Stoddart-Smith
Absent Present
Light
Absent Present
Moore
20 September
TVNZ[172]
Present
English
Present
Ardern
Not invited Not invited Not invited Not invited Not invited Not invited Not invited

Endorsements

Unlike in some other countries, political endorsements in New Zealand by media and people outside the political sphere are rare.[184] The following people and organisations endorsed parties and candidates:

National Party
Labour Party
Green Party
EpsomDavid Seymour for ACT
ŌhāriuPeter Dunne for United Future (until his resignation on 21 August 2017)

Opinion polling

Opinion polls have been undertaken periodically since the 2014 election, primarily by

Television New Zealand
. The graph on the left below shows the collated results of all polls for parties that polled above the 5% electoral threshold at the 2014 election; the graph on the right shows results for parties that polled between 1% and 4.9%, or won an electorate seat, at the 2014 election.

Seat predictions

The use of mixed-member proportional representation allows ready conversion of a party's support into a party vote percentage and therefore a number of seats in Parliament. Projections generally assume no changes to electorate seats each party holds (ACT retains Epsom, Māori retains Waiariki, Labour retains Te Tai Tokerau, etc.) unless there is a specific reason to assume change. For example, after Peter Dunne announced his retirement, projections stopped assuming United Future would retain Ōhāriu. Other parties that do not pass the 5% threshold are assumed to not to win an electorate and therefore gain no seats.

Radio New Zealand takes a "poll of polls" average to produce their forecast. The New Zealand Herald bases theirs on a predictive model incorporating poll data as well as past election results and past poll accuracy.[196] Newshub and 1 News and produce projections based on their own polls only.

When determining the scenarios for the overall result, the minimum parties necessary to form majority governments are listed (provided parties have indicated openness to working together). Actual governments formed may include other parties beyond the minimum required for a majority. This happened after the

2014 election
, when National only needed one seat from another party to reach a 61-seat majority, but they formed a 64-seat government with Māori, ACT and United Future.

Party Newshub[197]
13–20 Sep 2017 poll [final]
1 News[198]
15–19 Sep 2017 poll [final]
Roy Morgan[199]
28 Aug–10 Sep 2017 poll [final]
Radio NZ[200]
as of 21 Sep 2017 [final]
NZ Herald[201]
as of 22 Sep 2017 [final]
Stuff[202]
as of 22 Sep 2017 [final]
Official result
National 56 58 50 55 56 (±2) 54 56
Labour 45 46 49 46 47 (±3) 46 46
NZ First 9 6 7 8 9 (±2) 7 9
Green 9 9 11 9 7 (±2) 10 8
ACT 1 1* 1 1 1 1 1
Māori Party
2** 1 2 1 1 1 0
Seats in Parliament 122 121 120 120 120[nb 1] 120[nb 2] 120
Overall result (majority) National−NZ First (65) National−NZ First (64) Labour−Green−Māori (62) National–NZ First (63) National–NZ First (65) National–NZ First (61) National–NZ First (65)
Labour−Green−NZ First (63) Labour−Green−NZ First (61) Labour−Green−NZ First (63) Labour−Green–NZ First (62) Labour−Green–NZ First (63) Labour−Green–NZ First (63)
* indicates an overhang seat
  1. ^ The Herald's forecasted numbers are the medians of all likely outcomes for that party. The sum of the parties' forecasted seats does not necessarily equal the total likely seats in Parliament. In this table, "Seats in Parliament" is calculated by adding the number of forecast overhang seats to 120, even if the individual parties' seat projections do not add up to this number.
  2. ^ Stuff's projected numbers add up to 119, but this outcome is impossible. Calculation (based on exact percentage) shows that 120th and last seat would be allocated to Labour. Taking into account that the polling average have three significant figures it is not possible to decide which party get the last seat.

Post-election events

Leadership changes

Metiria Turei stepped down as co-leader of the Green Party during the campaign period and the party did not elect a replacement before the election.[203] In 2018 she was succeeded by Marama Davidson.

Local by-elections

The following local by-elections were required due to the resignation of an incumbent local body politician following their election to Parliament:

Electoral offences

On 2 October 2017, the

TVNZ re-broadcasting a bulletin of Te Karere during the silence period.[211]

Election donations

On 13 May 2021, the Serious Fraud Office charged six people in relation to election donations made to the Labour Party during the 2017 general election. The six individuals are all charged with obtaining at least NZ$34,840 by deception or without claim of right, with the donation being paid to the Labour Party via an intermediary bank account.[212][213]

In late July 2022, the NZ$34,840 Labour Party donation court case was combined with a second case involving two donations worth NZ$100,000 each that were made to the National Party between 2017 and 2018. Seven defendants were charged in the two combined political donations cases. Four of the defendants were named as former National MP and Advance New Zealand founder Jami-Lee Ross, and businessmen Yikun Zhang, Shijia (Colin) Zheng, Hengjia (Joe) Zheng. All defendants pleaded not guilty to charges of assisting Zhang in concealing his political donations. Under the Electoral Act 1993, all donations worth more than NZ$15,000 must be reported to the Electoral Commission. The trial is scheduled to last ten weeks. The Crown has summoned 51 witnesses including former National MP Simon Bridges, Labour MPs Andrew Little and Michael Wood , former Labour President Nigel Haworth, the National Party's general manager Greg Hamilton, Lee-Ross's wife Lucy Schwaner and his assistant Katja Kershaw.[214][215][216]

In early September 2022, lawyers for the defendants delivered closing arguments. Closing arguments ranged from asserting that the defendants had not broken electoral law, were unaware of Electoral Act requirements, or that defendants were unaware of the alleged scheme to conceal large donations.[217][218] Ross's lawyer Ron Mansfield KC also argued that Ross had lied to the Serious Fraud Office in an attempt to implicate former National leader Bridges.[219]

In early October 2022, High Court Justice Ian Gault delivered his verdict. While Ross was acquitted of the fraud charges relating to the National and Labour parties' donations, Yikun Zhang was convicted of a 2018 donation made to the National Party. Colin Zheng was also convicted over the 2017 and 2018 donations to the National Party while his brother Joe Zheng was convicted over the 2018 donation to the National Party and obstructing a Serious Fraud Office investigation. In addition Zhang, the Zheng brothers and three people with name suppression were acquitted in relations to donations made to the Labour Party in 2017.[220][221]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Contested the 2014 election as part of Internet Mana.
  2. ^ Was John Key until his resignation on 14 April 2017.

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