Special Votes: National and ACT lose majority in largest ever Parliament
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Special votes have given Te Pāti Māori two more electorates, and the Greens an extra list seat, with National losing two.

National has lost 2 seats, while TMP has gained 2, and the Green party has gained 1. NACT now need NZF to govern.

Rachel Boyack has won Nelson by 21 votes, and Phil Twyford has won Te Atatū by 131 votes.

122 seats because of the overhang, which will rise to 123 after the Port Waikato by-election.

  • @[email protected]
    9•8 months ago

    I’m so happy with this. NZF screw everything they touch so making National and Act work with NZF is going to stick on their craw. its beautiful. but then a right wing government truly sucks. expect more asset sales and more crappy policies helping the rich and screwing the poor. just a shame we didn’t get enough for labour/tmp/green coalition hopefully they’ll fuck up so badly everyone goes green/red next election

    • @TagMeInSkipIGotThis
      6•8 months ago

      Winston’s never really been one to go for asset sales etc. Setting aside his current populism around the covid, trans rights etc he’s usually been relatively centrist in an old fashioned Conservative type of way. Ie, not really that centrist if you’re a marxist, but usually not a full on beneficiary basher like NAct.

      I do really worry about his even more extreme populist bent this time around, and really worry for the marginalised communities that a lot of that shittiness gets directed at.