More election stats
Some more election stats:
- Labour won the party vote in only five general electorates, down from 14 last time
- National beat Labour by 23.4% nationwide, 22.7% in Auckland, 13.7% in Wellington, 24.9% in Christchurch, 25.0% in provincial NZ and 40.9% in rural NZ
- Labour’s party vote dropped by 3.4% in Auckland and Wellington and 2.4% in Christchurch
- Greens got 16.6% party vote in Wellington. Conservatives got 5.2% in rural NZ
- Internet Mana went up 0.5% the three main cities but dropped 3.3% party vote in the Maori seats. Maori did not like selling out to Kim Dotcom.
- The best party vote for National was Tamaki at 66.6%
- National got over 50% party vote in 35 seats while Labour were below 20% in 23 seats and unbelievably below 15% in 13 seats!
- NZ First got over 5% in 66 of 71 seats
- Greens got 28.1% party vote in Wellington Central
- The Conservatives got over 5% party vote in
five19 seats (typo) - Labour came third in the party vote in four seats – Bay of Plenty, Helensville, Tauranga and Wellington Central