When people voted matters
| Total | Advance | E-Day | Specials | |
| Lab | 26.9% | 26.5% | 27.5% | 26.9% |
| Nat | 38.1% | 40.9% | 35.9% | 34.7% |
| Gre | 11.6% | 10.9% | 10.6% | 14.8% |
| ACT | 8.6% | 8.9% | 9.1% | 7.3% |
| NZF | 6.1% | 5.9% | 7.3% | 4.7% |
| Maori | 3.1% | 2.6% | 2.6% | 4.9% |
| Left | 38.5% | 37.4% | 38.1% | 41.7% |
| Right | 46.7% | 49.8% | 45.0% | 42.0% |
| R-L Margin | 8.2% | 12.4% | 6.9% | 0.3% |
This table shows how the six main parties did on advance votes, e-day votes and special votes.
Overall the CR parties won by 8%. However on advance votes they had a 12% lead, on e-day votes only a 7% lead and it was almost tied on specials.
National did 5% better with advance votes than e-day votes.