New Zealand General election 2023 — Results
Election day: October 14, 2023
- National Party: 38.08%, 48 seats
- Labour Party: 26.92%, 34 seats
- Green Party: 11.61%, 15 seats
- ACT New Zealand: 8.64%, 11 seats
- New Zealand First: 6.09%, 8 seats
- Te Pāti Māori: 3.08%, 6 seats
- The Opportunities Party: 2.22%, 0 seats
- Others: 3.36%, 0 seats
Turnout: 78.20%
About this election
The electoral system
New Zealand elects its House of Representatives by mixed-member proportional representation: a party vote sets each party's proportional share and an electorate vote elects a local MP. In 2023, 72 electorates were contested (65 general, 7 Māori) alongside the party lists. Two overhang seats arose because Te Pāti Māori won six electorates while its party vote entitled it to four, taking Parliament to 122 members; a 123rd seat was added later at the Port Waikato by-election, held after a candidate's death forced that electorate's vote to be deferred. The 5%-or-one-electorate threshold applies, and turnout was 78.2%.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 11.16 points separated National Party from Labour Party — 318,311 votes.
- National Party converted 38.08% of the vote into 48 of 122 seats (39.34%), 1.26 points more than its vote share.
- The top two shared 65.00% of the vote between them, and 5 lists cleared 5%.
- National Party moved +12.50 points against the 2020 general election (25.58% → 38.08%).
- Turnout of 78.20% is the lowest of the 3 general elections covered here since 2017.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- How Electoral Systems Work Around the World — first-past-the-post, proportional and mixed systems, with real numbers
- Why Election Maps Look Different From the Popular Vote — why a map can look one-sided when the vote was close
- How a Constituency Map Gets Built — what happens when no boundary file matches the districts