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Preliminary results were released gradually after polling booths closed at 19:00 on 14 October. [1]The preliminary count only includes advance ordinary and election day ordinary votes; it does not include any special votes, which have a deadline ten days later (24 October). [2]
The 2023 New Zealand general election was held on 14 October 2023 to determine the composition of the 54th Parliament of New Zealand.Voters elected 122 members to the unicameral New Zealand House of Representatives under the mixed-member proportional (MMP) voting system, with 71 members elected from single-member electorates and the remaining members elected from closed party lists. [1]
According to Elections New Zealand, "having the printed electoral rolls available for the public to view is a part of the open democratic process of New Zealand". [13] The Electoral Commission, in their report on the 2017 general election, recommended that roll sales be discontinued for anything other than electoral purposes. [14]
ACT New Zealand released their list on 16 July 2023. [3] [4] Anto Coates, 33rd on the list, withdrew in July. [5] Elaine Naidu Franz, 29th on the list, stood down on 23 August due to controversial social media comments. [6] Brent Miles, 57th on the list, and contesting Taranaki-King Country, withdrew in September for "personal reasons". [7]
The New Zealand parliamentary electoral system has been based on the principle of mixed-member proportional (MMP) since the 1996 election. MMP was introduced following a referendum in 1993 . It replaced the first-past-the-post (FPP) system New Zealand had previously used for most of its history.
Bay of Plenty has been a safe seat for National's Tony Ryall, who has been returned easily at every election since the seat's re-establishment in 1996.The upper central North Island is an area where New Zealand First has done well, frequently getting a higher vote share in seats in both the Bay of Plenty region and in the Waikato than it does nationally.
New Zealand Sovereignty Party: Tony Corbett Contested Tauranga in 2022 [222] Green: Thea Doyle 33 [28] Opportunities: Shai Navot: Contested North Shore in 2020 5 [12] [13] NZ Loyal: Chris Newman [223] Vision NZ: Bernadette Soares Contested electorate for New Conservative in 2020 [39] Labour: Vanushi Walters: 30 [44] [9] NZ First: David Wilson
Kelston was proposed in the 2013/14 electorate boundary review and confirmed by the Electoral Commission on 17 April 2014. [2] The increase in population in the Auckland region as recorded in the 2013 census meant an extra electorate was required to keep all electorates within five percent of their quota.