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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] Special votes include votes from those who enrolled after the deadline of 10 September, those who voted outside their electorate (including all overseas votes ...
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 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]
List MP 2017–2020; contested electorate in 2020 4 [20] NZ Loyal: Fred Roberts Contested electorate for Advance NZ in 2020 [34] Independent: David Webber Contested electorate in 2020 [193] Green: Scott Willis: Contested electorate in 2020 12 [196] [11] Retiring incumbents and withdrawn candidates National: Stephen Jack
^1 This change occurred as a result of the elevation of Andrew Bayly, who had previously been elected as a list MP at the 2023 general election, to an electorate seat on 25 November 2023 at the Port Waikato by-election. Bayly resigned his list seat on 13 December 2023, creating a list vacancy.
At the 1996 election, there were 44 North Island electorates. By the 2023 election, this had increased to 49 electorates. In October 2024, Statistics New Zealand announced that population changes necessitated reducing the number of North Island general electorates by one, bringing the total number of North Island general electorates to 48. [9]
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]
The next New Zealand general election will be held after the current 54th New Zealand Parliament is dissolved or expires. The current Parliament was elected on Saturday, 14 October 2023. The last possible date for the election to be held is Saturday, 19 December 2026.