{"id":3977,"date":"2026-11-07T13:03:57","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T08:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3977"},"modified":"2026-11-07T13:03:57","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T08:03:57","slug":"new-zealand-ruling-coalition-leads-as-election-count-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3977","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand ruling coalition leads as election count begins"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New Zealand\u2019s ruling centre-right National Party and main opposition Labour were running neck \u200band neck as counting began in the nationwide general election, but early projections \u200cshowed the incumbent coalition would win enough seats to retain power.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Results from the Electoral Commission show that with 14.4% of the results counted, the National Party has 30.90% of the party vote, with the centre-left Labour \u200bon 28.39% of the vote.<\/p>\n

A seat projection from New Zealand\u2019s Electoral Commission showed the current \u200bthree-party ruling coalition led by National was heading toward remaining in control \u2060after an election dominated by a struggling economy and voter disillusionment with the two biggest contenders.<\/p>\n

\u201cI \u200bthink the (National Party) are a bit higher than we expected, in complete honesty with you,\u201d Labour \u200blawmaker Kieran McNulty said in an interview with public broadcaster TVNZ.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not reading too much into it because it\u2019s a relatively low level of votes that have been declared.\u201d<\/p>\n

Left-leaning parties, including Labour, are aiming to make the \u200bNational Party coalition the first one-term government in nearly 50 years.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Government could take weeks<\/strong><\/h3>\n

While the \u200bElectoral Commission expects to report preliminary results from 50% of voting places by 10pm, there may be \u200cno \u2060new government until after official results are released on November 27 and coalition negotiations are concluded.<\/p>\n

New Zealand\u2019s electoral system makes coalitions the norm, and the tightness of this year\u2019s race means one or more of the country\u2019s smaller parties will almost certainly participate in a governing coalition.<\/p>\n

The country \u200bswitched to a mixed \u200bmember proportional system in \u20601996, which means people vote for both the party and a local constituency candidate.<\/p>\n

There are 71 constituency seats and at least 49 party seats \u200b, and a party or coalition needs a majority to form a government.<\/p>\n

Special \u200bvotes, which \u2060include those from overseas voters or people outside their electorate, will not be included in the vote count until November 27. Historically, special votes have favoured the left, with parties on the right \u2060losing support \u200bfollowing the count.<\/p>\n

New Zealand has emerged only slowly from \u200ba prolonged economic downturn, with growth subdued, household budgets strained and unemployment rising to 5.7% in the third quarter, its highest \u200blevel in 11 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Zealand\u2019s ruling centre-right National Party and main opposition Labour were running neck \u200band neck as counting began in the nationwide general election, but early projections \u200cshowed the incumbent coalition would win enough seats to retain power. Results from the Electoral Commission show that with 14.4% of the results counted, the National Party has 30.90% of the party vote, with the centre-left Labour \u200bon 28.39% of the vote. A seat projection from New Zealand\u2019s Electoral Commission showed the current \u200bthree-party ruling coalition led by National was heading toward remaining in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}