NZ election
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David 
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Understandably, this has flown under the radar a bit (occurring at the same time as the Voice referendum and the Israel–Gaza war), but the NZ Labour government has fallen and the conservative National–ACT coalition has won.
Some analysis here, for anyone who's interested:
https://insidestory.org.au/nzs-back-to-the-future-election/
| Quote: | While the world was watching the Middle East on the weekend and Australians were focused on the Voice referendum, New Zealanders were voting in a new national government. Although late polling had hinted at a closer race than initially thought, in the end Saturday’s result was clear-cut.
The centre-right National party — which won 46 per cent of the vote in 2017 but narrowly failed to form government, and managed just 26 per cent in 2020 — secured 39 per cent of the vote and fifty seats in the 121-seat parliament. Its habitual coalition partner, the ACT party, attracted 9 per cent and an additional electorate seat, for a likely total of eleven. Between them, these two parties of the right attracted 47 per cent of the vote, just two seats fewer than their combined result in 2017, giving National leader Christopher Luxon a clear mandate to form government.
This time it’s the turn of Labour, and its relatively new leader Chris Hipkins, to face devastation. The party won just 27 per cent of the vote and lost a number of previously safe seats in Auckland — results that echo its performance in the 2011 and 2014 elections. Polling had suggested a similar defeat in 2017 until Ardern took over the leadership and secured a solid 37 per cent, and government, through a coalition with New Zealand First and a support agreement from the Greens.
Some in the media are blaming the extent of the loss on Ardern’s unfulfilled promise of transformation and the extended lockdowns experienced by Aucklanders. But once the count is finalised (in three weeks or thereabouts) and the split voting patterns analysed, the causes may prove to be more complex. |
Something the article above doesn't mention is the decisive role played by the oddball / kinda far-right party NZ First – either the Pauline Hanson or Bob Katter of New Zealand politics, depending on who you ask – whose agreement with Labour enabled Jacinda Ardern to become prime minister in 2017. Had that alliance held, the election would seem to be on a knife's edge (with National and ACT provisionally holding 61 seats out of 121, Labour, the Greens and Te Pāti Māori holding 50, and NZ First winning the other 10). However, per Wikipedia, both stated in the lead-up to the election that they would refuse to enter into any arrangements with one another, and it's not hard to see why when you read up on the policies NZ First was campaigning on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_New_Zealand_general_election#New_Zealand_First
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| A few of my co-workers who live and work out of NZ hated Jacinta and lockdowns. They didn't believe in Covid and when the Nationals came out with a reduction in tax they all jumped at it. |
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stui magpie 
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NZ politics swings like a demented pendulum.
They have no state governments as I understand it, just federal and local, and no senate to keep the main house honest, so it just swings back and forth.
The Kiwis are a funny breed.
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