[ad_1] Labor Liz Craig is waiting until each special vote is counted before placing a call on the election results. Interim results with 100 percent counted (minus special votes) placed national candidate Penny Simmonds in the lead with 16,372 and Craig with 15,687. After watching his game’s big win against …
Read More »Election 2020: the Maori Party could return from political death to seize the seat
[ad_1] While other political dynasties fell on election night, one came back from the dead. After a full period in the desert, it seems that the Maori Party has returned to Parliament. Labor, in one of the few turns against its favor in the 2020 elections, appears to have lost …
Read More »Election Results 2020 – Playing Election Night Bingo – What Will Our Politicians Say Next?
[ad_1] New Zealand|Politics October 17, 2020 06:00 am3 minutes to read The video will play in Play now Don’t play automatically Never auto game Watch it live – We’re live from the Newstalk ZB studio, the NZ Herald newsroom, and the party venue, as we bring you all the results …
Read More »2020 Election: Labor’s Ginny Andersen Takes National’s Chris Bishop’s Hutt South ‘Roller Coaster’
[ad_1] Joel MacManus / Stuff Ginny Andersen is hugged by her daughter after winning Hutt South. After a “roller coaster” election night, Ginny Andersen won Hutt South, reclaiming the traditional Labor stronghold from Chris Bishop of National. Despite a landslide Labor victory in the party vote, the electorate vote appeared …
Read More »Covid 19 coronavirus: New Zealand traveler tests positive in Malaysia
[ad_1] There were four cases in managed isolation yesterday and three today. Photo / Archive A person who flew to Malaysia from New Zealand tested positive for Covid-19, according to local media reports. The New Straits Times reported today that Tan Sri Chief Health Officer Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah confirmed …
Read More »2020 Election Results: Labor’s Jacinda Ardern Wins Second Term, Crushes National’s Judith Collins; Winston Peters and NZ First out; David Seymour of Act and James Shaw and Marama Davidson of Greens get 10 MPs each
[ad_1] LAST CHOICE* It’s a red sea! Labor comes to victory and can govern with only 97% of the votes counted* Jacinda Ardern praises historic victory, promises to rule for “all New Zealanders”* Judith Collins crushed, says she has congratulated Ardern on an “outstanding result”* National Deputy Leader Gerry Brownlee …
Read More »Election 2020: Complete National Party bloodbath, but Judith Collins stays
[ad_1] The National Party faces a bloodbath only equaled by its beating in 2002. With most of the votes counted, the party had only 26.8 percent of the party’s votes, meaning it would lose 19 of its current deputies. The party will lose many seats it has held for years, …
Read More »Election Results: The Dance of Defeat as Shane Jones Dances the Night
[ad_1] New Zealand|Politics October 17, 2020 09:55 am2 minutes to read The video will play in Play now Don’t play automatically Never auto game Watch it live – We’re live from the Newstalk ZB studio, the NZ Herald newsroom, and the party venue, as we bring you all the results …
Read More »Summary: 2020 Elections Offer Big Victory for Labor | 1 NEWS
[ad_1] Summary of NEWS 1 coverage as the 2020 general election results were announced. You can see the coverage on TVNZ1, TVNZ OnDemand, 1NEWS.co.nz and 1 NEWS Facebook, Youtube and Twitter. See the results here on the 1 NEWS website. Preliminary results for the 2020 elections: National – 35 seats …
Read More »Election 2020: Greens’ Chlöe Swarbrick takes Auckland Central in surprising victory
[ad_1] Chlöe Swarbrick is “happy” to have secured the first Green Party electorate seat in the elections in a surprising victory in Auckland Central. Swarbrick, 26, beat out her closest rival, Labor Helen White, who polls predicted would take the seat, by just a few hundred votes. National’s Emma Mellow …
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