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Full Coverage: NZ Election Night 2008
- Post-Election wrangling and official results - Full Coverage: Post-Election NZ 2008
Election 08: Key Urges NZ To Work Together - Clark Stands Down - ACT in Box Seat - Winston Is Gone & Roger Douglas Returns
Alastair Thompson blogs: 1am - At the
end of the night tonight the MP count is National 59
: Labour 43 : Green 8 : ACT 5 : Maori 5 : Progressive 1
:United Future 1 - in a 122 seat Parliament. The
Government elect block looks likely to lose one more seat to
the Greens on special
votes (of which there are 240,000), after which
National, ACT and United will have 64 MPs - two votes over
the 62 majority required. United's Peter Dunne has indicated
his concerns around working with Roger Douglas already.
Clearly the new opposition are also alarmed at the return of
Roger. All of which begs a few questions: While this is an
electoral landslide in MMP terms, is it a mandate for
radical change? More
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ALSO:
- Chief Electoral Office - Preliminary Results For The 2008 General Election
- Election Results 2008: Electorate Status Table
- Earlier - National's 100-day action plan
- Election 08: Gordon Campbell Counts Down To The Poll
- Roy Morgan Poll - Nats 42% Lab 34.5%
- Lyndon Hood - The Campaign In Pictures
- Labour - Where Is English In The last Week Of Campaign?
- Maori Party - Sharples takes issue with media advice on voting
- Maori Party - Party reports further electoral irregularities
- Greens - Fitzsimons visits the future at campaign's end
- Libertarianz Party - Why Vote Libertarianz?
- MetService - Sunny And On The Cool Side For Election Day
- KiwiFM Audio - Wammo & Helen Clark & David Slack: On The Eve...
- TV3 Video - Full interview with John Key following victory speech
- Maori Party hopes for cabinet posts
- Key pledges National Govt will work for all NZers
- Full news conference with Helen Clark
- Winston Peters and NZ First gone from parliament
- Clark concedes the election, stands down as Labour leader
- Greens pick up two extra seats
- Peter Dunne responds to United Future's election results
- Watch United Future leader Peter Dunne's full interview
- Roger Douglas back in Parliament
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