2008 Election Results – Overall Results
|
Party |
Party Votes |
% of all Party Votes |
% of effective party vote |
|
|
|
|
|
|
National |
1,053,398 |
44.93% |
48.08% |
|
Labour |
796,880 |
33.99% |
36.37% |
|
Greens |
157,613 |
6.72% |
7.19% |
|
ACT |
85,496 |
3.65% |
3.90% |
|
Maori |
55,980 |
2.39% |
2.55% |
|
Progressive |
21,241 |
0.91% |
0.97% |
|
United Future |
20,497 |
0.87% |
0.94% |
|
SUB-TOTAL |
2,191,105 |
93.40% |
100.00% |
|
NZ First |
95,356 |
4.07% |
|
|
Bill & Ben |
13,016 |
0.56% |
|
|
Kiwi |
12,755 |
0.54% |
|
|
Legalise Cannabis |
9,515 |
0.41% |
|
|
Pacific |
8,640 |
0.37% |
|
|
Family |
8,176 |
0.35% |
|
|
Alliance |
1,909 |
0.08% |
|
|
Democrats |
1,208 |
0.05% |
|
|
Libertarianz |
1,176 |
0.05% |
|
|
Workers |
932 |
0.04% |
|
|
RAM |
465 |
0.02% |
|
|
Republic of NZ |
313 |
0.01% |
|
|
TOTAL |
2,344,566 |
100.00% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Right |
1,138,894 |
48.58% |
|
|
Centre |
76,477 |
3.26% |
|
|
Left |
975,734 |
41.62% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
R – L |
163,160 |
6.96% |
|
National is I think the first party to ever get more than one million votes – around 164,000 more than in 2005. Labour got around 138,000 fewer votes than in 2008. The Greens got 37,000 more than 2005 but their percentage of the votes is less than what they got in 2002.
There was a very large 6.6% wasted vote. This saw National’s 44.9% of the total vote become 48.1% of the effective vote, and hence they got 58 seats.
The Bill & Ben Party beat all the other non parliamentary parties, except NZ First. Neither Kiwi, Family nor Pacific make 1%, let alone close to 5%.