Electorates contested

The Chief Electoral officer has released figures on parties and candidates. I find it interesting to look at how many seats a party is contesting as that gives some idea of their strength:

  1. Labour – 70
  2. National – 63 – all bar the Maori seats
  3. Green – 60
  4. ACT – 59
  5. United Future – 51
  6. Kiwi – 36
  7. Progressive – 26
  8. NZ First – 22

I think it says something that NZ First can’t find more candidates than than the Cult of Jim and the Kiwi Party.

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