New Zealand General election 2026 (MMP) β Live Results & Map
Election day: November 7, 2026 Β· voting from 20:00 UTC on November 6 (09:00 NZDT) to 06:00 UTC (19:00 NZDT)
Parties on the party vote
- National Party Β· Christopher Luxon β Leads the coalition government formed in 2023; won 48 seats in 2023, the most.
- Labour Party Β· Chris Hipkins β Main opposition party since 2023; won 34 seats, its worst result under MMP.
- Green Party Β· Marama Davidson, then ChlΓΆe Swarbrick β In opposition since 2023; the co-leaders head the list; won 15 seats in 2023.
- ACT New Zealand Β· David Seymour β In the coalition government since 2023, led by Seymour; won 11 seats in 2023.
- New Zealand First Party Β· Winston Peters β In the coalition government since 2023, led by Peters; won 8 seats in 2023.
- Te PΔti MΔori Β· Lance Norman β In opposition; won 6 MΔori electorates in 2023; stands a one-name party list.
- Opportunity Party Β· Qiulae Wong β Not in the last Parliament; stands a party list and electorate candidates.
Seventeen registered parties submitted a party list and 530 candidates are standing in all, the commission reported when nominations closed. The ten other registered parties seeking the party vote are the Alliance Party, Animal Justice Party Aotearoa New Zealand, Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party, Conservative Party NZ, Free Palestine, New Zealand Loyal, NZ Outdoors & Freedom Party, Te Tai Tokerau Party, Vision New Zealand and the Womenβs Rights Party. A further 65 electorate candidates are standing as independents or for unregistered parties, and so cannot win list seats.
Government and coalitions
In office now
Christopher Luxon (National) has been Prime Minister since 27 November 2023, in coalition with ACT and New Zealand First. In 2023 National won 48 seats, ACT 11 and New Zealand First 8 β 67 of 123 β against Labour 34, the Greens 15 and Te PΔti MΔori 6.
Possible coalitions
Luxon has ruled out working with Labour, the Greens, Te PΔti MΔori and the Opportunity Party, and is open to governing again with ACT and New Zealand First. Opportunity's leader, Qiulae Wong, says she will talk first to whichever party is largest on the night, but would not sit in a cabinet with Winston Peters as foreign minister. No party has published a coalition agreement.
About this election
How the vote works
New Zealand uses mixed-member proportional representation (MMP). Each voter casts a party vote, which sets each party's share of the 120 seats, and an electorate vote for a local MP. 72 seats are electorates, seven of them MΔori electorates; the rest are filled from party lists so that each party's total matches its party vote. A party shares in the list seats only if it wins 5% of the party vote or one electorate. A party that wins more electorates than its party vote entitles it to keeps them, enlarging Parliament. Preliminary results come on election night; the official count, which adds special votes, follows later.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
Understanding this election
- Why Turnout Figures Disagree — why two sources publish different turnout for one election
- D’Hondt vs Sainte-Laguë — how a divisor formula turns vote shares into seats
- How Electoral Systems Work Around the World — first-past-the-post, proportional and mixed systems, with real numbers