Election 2020: 20 Fascinating 2020 Election Facts You May Have Missed

The election had more twists and turns than a Hollywood blockbuster.

Labor won the first outright majority in New Zealand’s MMP history, winning 64 seats in the House of 120 deputies.

Act increased its total number of MPs by 900 percent; Chlöe Swarbrick became Auckland Central Green and the Maori Party is back in Parliament, provincially.

But there are many other more fascinating facts:

1) In how many electorates did the Labor Party win?

Labor won the party vote in 68 of the country’s 72 electorates, meaning it lost the party vote in just four seats in this election, a record for Labor.

Those seats were:

Taranaki-King Country

Waikato

Auckland

Epsom

Labor won the party’s vote in every seat in the South Island.

2) Which candidate got the highest majority?

Remutaka – The Labor candidate, Chief Minister Chris Hipkins, won his electorate by the largest margin in the country.

It won 24,911 votes compared to 7,674 for its national rival, that’s a margin of 17,237.

Hipkins’ margin was even higher than that of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who won by a margin of 16,577 at Mt Albert.

3) Which candidate had the smallest majority?

Whangārei – National’s Shane Reti won it by just 164 votes. Most likely the margin would have been much higher, if it weren’t for Act’s David Seymour standing in the seat.

That is not the leader of the Act, David Seymour, but a candidate with the same name.

It is likely that several voters of the Law got confused and gave the leader of the Law their candidate vote, as well as the vote of their party.

4) Which candidate got the most votes?

Chris Hipkins also wins in this category.

Of the 36,331 votes cast in his Remutaka electorate, he won 24,911.

The second highest was Jacinda Ardern who got 23,198 votes. But his seat has 3,744 fewer voters than Hipkins.

5) Which deputy obtained the least number of votes?

As for the candidates with the fewest total number of votes entering Parliament, that crown goes to Act’s Wellington Central candidate and deputy party leader Brooke van Velden, who only received 678 votes.

But when it comes to which candidate got the lowest overall vote, that’s Prince Bhavik, who ran in Kaikōura for the Money Free party.

He won only 10 votes.

6) Which electorate had the largest margin in voting for the party?

Numerically, it was Taieri. Of the 39,182 votes cast, 23,210 were for Labor. That means there was a margin of 14,705.

In terms of the largest margin represented as a percentage, the title goes to Māngere, where the margin was 65.5 percent (15,818 Labor votes compared to 2,134 for Nacional).

7) Which electorate had the lowest division?

Waikato, of the 34,658 votes cast, 13,472 were for National and 13,434 were for Labor, that’s a margin of 38, or just 0.1 percent.

8) What were the five greenest seats?

Wellington Central – 11,697 party votes

Rongotai – 8872

Dunedin – 7001

Mount Albert – 6503

Banks Peninsula – 6022

9) What were the top five positions for Act?

Selwyn – 4,717 party votes

Waitaki – 4555

Kaikōura – 4359

Southland – 4371

Rangitīkei – 4204

10) What were the first five seats of NZ First?

Northland – 2,351 party votes

Whangarei – 2012

North – 1583

Tauranga – 1406

Wairarapa – 1364

11) What was the most unpopular party in the elections?

HeartlandNZ received the lowest total number of votes in the elections, winning just 987 nationwide, or 0.0414 percent of the total vote.

In Auckland Central, Maungakiekie and Whanganui, the party received no votes.

12) How many women are there now in Parliament?

There are now 57 women in the New Zealand Parliament, or 47% of the 120 MPs in the House.

That number was significantly reinforced by the number of new women MPs entering Parliament: 23 out of 40.

13) How many seats are there where a candidate leads by less than 1000 votes?

Auckland – margins 902

Tukituki – 772

Northland – 729

Auckland Central – 492

Invercargill – 685

Maungakiekie – 580

Whangarei – 164

Geothermal – 415

14) How many members of the rainbow community are there in Parliament now?

With 11 MPs identified as part of the LGBTQ + community, New Zealand’s Parliament is now the “weirdest in the world.”

15) How much will the special votes change the result?

Most likely, the special votes will give the left bloc in Parliament, Labor and Los Verdes, another pair of deputies.

This would likely mean that National will lose at least one MP and the person at the bottom of its list is Maureen Pugh.

If this happens, it will mean that for the third time in a row, Maureen Pugh will lose her seat due to special voting.

The other two elections in which he returned after other national deputies resigned.

16) Which electorate received the most advanced votes?

The Bay of Plenty – Received 29,706 votes earlier. On Election Day, about 7,084 votes were cast, meaning that 80.7 percent of the votes cast in the Bay of Plenty were cast earlier.

In fact, there was not a single electorate in the country where early voting was not below 55 percent; the national total was 70 percent.

17) Which party got the most votes in advance?

The Green Party, of which 75.5 percent was made in advance. It was followed by labor with 73.3 percent, the national 67.1 percent and the law 66 percent.

New Zealand First was the lowest, at just 62 percent.

18) What was the most popular polling place in New Zealand?

The Mall at 185 Main St in the Remutaka electorate was the polling place that received the highest number of total votes.

In total, there were 10,898 votes cast at the old T&T store: 10,242 were anticipated and 656 were cast on Election Day.

19) What was the least popular polling place in New Zealand?

The NZ Bloodstock Center, at 10 Hinau Rd in Port Waikato, had the fewest votes cast of any polling place in the country.

Only 120 votes were cast there: 107 were cast early and 13 on election day.

20) How many seats did National lose?

It depends on how you define loss.

Compared to 56 in the last elections, its current 35 seats are 21 fewer.

He lost 15 seats in the electorate he previously held, 14 to Labor and one to the Greens (four MPs who lost electorate seats are back on the list: Gerry Brownlee, David Bennett, Chris Bishop and Nick Smith); five MPs from the national electorate are out of Parliament, Harete Hipango in Whanganui, Jonathan Young in New Plymouth, Tim Macindoe in Hamilton West, Lawrence Yule in Tukituki and Dan Bidois in Northcote; seven MPs from the seat list are out: Kanwaljiit Singh Bakshi, Paulo Garcia, Agnes Loheni, Alfred Ngaro, Brett Hudson and Jo Hayes.