✶ Aotearoa New Zealand · 3,633,546 electors
Two votes,
one House.
New Zealand elects its single chamber by mixed-member proportional representation: 71 MPs win electorates, 49 come from party lists, and the party vote decides how many seats each party gets in all. Only once since 1996 has one party won a majority alone (Labour, 2020); otherwise governments are negotiated.
The 54th Parliament · at dissolution, 1 October 2026
67
of 122.
National, ACT and New Zealand First have governed in coalition since November 2023. The House started with 122 MPs — Te Pāti Māori's two-seat overhang — reached 123 after the Port Waikato by-election, and ended at 122 after Judith Collins resigned in May 2026.
- 67GovernmentNational 48 · ACT 11 · NZ First 8
- 53Opposition partiesLabour 34 · Green 15 · Te Pāti Māori 4
- 2IndependentsTākuta Ferris, Mariameno Kapa-Kingi
- National 48
- Labour 34
- Green 15
- ACT 11
- NZ First 8
- Te Pāti Māori 4
- Independent 2
Composition from Wikipedia; not checked against Parliament's own lists, which our reader could not open.
Who holds office
The Crown,
and the House.
-
Sovereign King Charles III Since 8 September 2022 King of New Zealand; represented by the Governor-General -
Governor-General Dame Cindy Kiro Since 21 October 2021 Term extended to 31 March 2027 so the appointment does not fall at the election -
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon Since 27 November 2023 National; leads a National–ACT–NZ First coalition -
Leader of the Opposition Chris Hipkins Since 27 November 2023 Labour; Prime Minister January–November 2023
Photos: Dame Cindy Kiro — New Zealand Government, Office of the Governor-General, CC BY 4.0 · Chris Hipkins — New Zealand Labour Party., CC BY-SA 4.0 . Others public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.
How each is chosen →Last election · 14 October 2023
How the 2023
votes became seats.
| Party | Party vote | Electorates | List | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National | 38.08% | 43 | 5 | 48 |
| Labour | 26.92% | 17 | 17 | 34 |
| Green | 11.61% | 3 | 12 | 15 |
| ACT | 8.64% | 2 | 9 | 11 |
| NZ First | 6.09% | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| Te Pāti Māori | 3.08% | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| Opportunity | 2.22% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The threshold bites. Opportunity won 2.2% of the party vote and no seats: under 5% and no electorate. Te Pāti Māori won 3.1% — also under 5% — but six electorates, so it qualified anyway and kept all six, two more than its share: the House grew to 122.
Electorates don't decide the total. National won 43 electorates and 5 list seats; Labour 17 and 17. The party vote set each party's total; list seats topped it up.
Rerun 2023 in the calculator →Official result (Electoral Commission, 3 Nov 2023) as tabulated on Wikipedia; it reproduces exactly in our Sainte-Laguë code (see tests).
In this edition
- Live Election night Party vote, seats and all 71 electorates as the count comes in.
- Calendar How the election runs Writ day to the official count, and the final polls.
- MMP calculator Votes into seats Sainte-Laguë, the 5% threshold, coat-tails and overhang.
- Coalition builder 61 of 120 Who can form a government, and on what terms.
- Party lists Who gets in off the list All 530 candidates and every party's ranked list.
- Government King, Cabinet, one House How laws pass, the courts, the Treaty and 78 councils.
- Money Donations and broadcasting Spending limits, public broadcasting money, disclosure.
- Electorates Seventy-one seats General and Māori electorates on the 2025 boundaries.
- History Fifty-four Parliaments 1853 to 2023: women's suffrage in 1893, MMP from 1996.
- How to vote Two ticks Enrolment, the Māori roll, special votes, a practice ballot.