Election Results 2020 – Playing Election Night Bingo – What Will Our Politicians Say Next?

Looking for a fun way to follow the election as the results roll in tonight?

Wherever you are, watching our live coverage on your phone, tablet or desktop at nzherald.co.nz or listening to NewstalkZB or iHeart Radio, use our handy election bingo card below to mark those vital moments as they happen.

We have listed some of the classic phrases you are likely to hear and the events you were able to see from our politicians and the presenters and panelists on the NZ Herald / NewstalkZB live coverage.

You can print the bingo card below or click the link above to play online.

Warning: you may need to have soft drinks on hand.

Click here to download and play Election Night Bingo

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And while you play, be sure to keep checking back on our coverage, because tonight we will unveil the shape of New Zealand’s political and social landscape for the next three years.

Follow NZ Herald’s full coverage of Election Night 2020 (watch or follow live above) or listen live to Newstalk ZB, as Mike Hosking and Heather du Plessis-Allan, along with New Zealand’s best journalists and political commentators , analyze the great results of tonight.

Tonight, two women, both born in Hamilton and raised in rural Waikato farming towns, just 14 miles away, face off. Who will serve as Prime Minister in New Zealand’s 53rd Parliament and who will occupy the opposition seats?

And while Jacinda Ardern and Judith Collins know their fate, five critical questions will be answered for their parties:

The Labor Party and Ardern have skyrocketed in pre-election polls: have they done enough to govern, and perhaps even govern alone?

Or did Collins, the newly appointed National Party leader, crushed the pundits to send Labor back to the crusader benches after just one term?

Is this the end of Winston Peters after 35 years in Parliament and the NZ First party that he formed in 1993? Have you paid the price for your coalition decision three years ago?

The law’s leader, David Seymour, will arrive in Parliament riding his Epsom constituency, but how many MPs could join him?

And perhaps one of the most intriguing questions: Will the Greens first exceed the party’s 5 percent vote threshold and then hold the key to unlocking a second term for Labor? And what price will they put on power?

New Zealanders also voted today in two landmark referendums: the legalization of cannabis and euthanasia. But the results of these surveys will not be known for several weeks.

Tonight, it’s about politics. Tonight we get the answers.

We will go live from our multipurpose NZ Herald-Newstalk ZB newsroom in central Auckland, from the Election Night headquarters of all major parties and from NZME newsrooms throughout New Zealand.

With Hosking at the Newstalk ZB studio and du Plessis Allan leading a panel of expert commentators and analysts, we’ve got you covered from every angle and on every news platform.

Stay with us as we bring you full coverage, breaking news, in-depth analysis and all the aftermath of an election campaign like no other, delayed and heavily influenced by a global pandemic that has killed more than a million people.