2008 Election Results – Overall Changes
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Party |
Party Vote Change % |
2008 Party Vote % |
2005 Party Vote % |
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National |
5.83% |
44.93% |
39.10% |
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Labour |
-7.11% |
33.99% |
41.10% |
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Greens |
1.42% |
6.72% |
5.30% |
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ACT |
2.14% |
3.65% |
1.51% |
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Maori |
0.27% |
2.39% |
2.12% |
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Progressive |
-0.25% |
0.91% |
1.16% |
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United Future |
-1.86% |
0.81% |
2.67% |
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SUB-TOTAL |
-5.28% |
93.40% |
98.68% |
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NZ First |
-1.65% |
4.07% |
5.72% |
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Others |
1.17% |
2.48% |
1.31% |
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TOTAL |
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100.00% |
100.00% |
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Right |
7.97% |
48.58% |
40.61% |
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Centre |
-7.31% |
3.26% |
10.51% |
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Left |
-5.94% |
41.62% |
47.56% |
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R – L |
13.91% |
6.96% |
-6.95% |
You can see above that National climbed 5.8% above its 2005 party vote and Labour dropped 7.11%.
Overall the right vote went up 8.0% and the left dropped 5.9%. Also the vote for centre parties that made the threshold dropped 7.3%.
So overall the right vote went from 7.0% behind in 2005 to 7.0% ahead in 2008.