2014 election results

The Parliamentary Library has published an interesting analysis of the 2014 election results.

A couple of graphs from it:

Some big changes over time.

Interesting that the proportion of female electorate MPs is increasing, while decreasing for List MPs. Electorate seats tend to be longer lasting for MPs than list seats, so that is a good thing.

Parliament actually has a great proportion of Maori as MPs, than the overall population does. It’s good to see the House of Representatives is quite representative.