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The 2005 Election Weekend’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: NEWSFLASH:
It's Labour, Now The Talking
Begins
While technically the center-right and center-left remain tied on 61 seats each, Winston Peters promise to support the party with the most seats looks likely to make Labour the Government come Monday morning.
2:
Images:
Aircraft Threatens Attack On
SkyTower
Images: A Piper Cherokee aircraft taken from Ardmore Aerodrome’s Massy University flying school crashed into the sea off Kohimarama beach last night. Police allege the pilot had threatened to crash the aircraft into Auckland’s Sky Tower.
3:
Scoop
Election Results - Electorate Status
Table
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4:
Video:
Election05 Helen Clark’s Speech @ Labour
HQ
Video: See Labour Leader Helen Clark's post-election speech. While for now technically the center-right and center-left remain tied on 61 seats each, Winston Peters has promised to support the party with the most seats.
5:
Images:
Don Brash At National’s HQ
Auckland
National, with 49 seats, failed to achieve the highest number of MPs in the Parliament. However, its leader, Don Brash, did not concede defeat in Saturday’s General Election. Labour will take 50 MPs into the new Parliament.
6:
Culture
Jammng: Election Night Drinking
Game
By an anonymous wit, distributed via email… IN PDF FORMAT… http://img.scoop.co.nz/media/pdfs/0509/drinkinggame.pdf Click for big version IN PDF FORMAT… http://img.scoop.co.nz/media/pdfs/0509/drinkinggame.pdf
7:
Scoop
Audio: Laidlaw Scoop & Ors. On Election
'05
This morning Scoop Co-Editor Alastair Thompson joined Radio New Zealand 's Sunday Morning host Chris Laidlaw's Sunday Group to discuss the election result. Also on the show were The Listener 's Gordon Campbell, The Political Review 's Chris Trotter ...
8:
NEWSFLASH:
Labour Passes National In Votes &
Seats
The Labour Party MMP Party vote, 740,246 has just overtaken the National Party Party vote on 739,640, making it almost certain that Labour will form the next Government.
9:
Video:
Helen Clark Post-Election Press
Conference
Scoop Video: Labour leader and caretaker prime minister, Helen Clark held a press conference in Auckland Sunday to detail her views on how political parties ought to conduct post-election coalition talks over the next two weeks. Subjects include: ...
10:
Anderton
Wants Answers Over Dirty Tricks
Campaign
Progressive leader Jim Anderton is asking the National Party to confirm that none of its members are behind a dirty tricks leafleting and advertising campaign being conducted in his Wigram electorate.
11:
Election
Campaign Reporting & Unfinished
Business
Unfinished business: that's the feeling the remains as this election campaign comes to a close. Unfinished from a media point of view in that proper and in-depth analysis of National and Labour's social policy has yet to be concluded. Unfinished too in ...
12:
Eyewitness:
Hurricane Katrina-Our Experience
Eyewitness Report From New Orleans Hurricane Katrina-Our Experiences By Larry Bradshaw, Lorrie Beth Slonsky
13:
Galloway
Vs Hitchens; Progressives Vs
Ourselves
Man, it just felt so good watching George Galloway rip Senator Coleman an extra exit hole. In May 2005, you'll remember, while most American politicians were mincing and cowering, the Honorable Member of the British Parliament, George Galloway, told ...
14:
Destiny
NZ Leader Thwarts Knife
Attack
Destiny NZ leader Richard Lewis has helped thwart a violent, alcohol fuelled gang attack yesterday afternoon (4.00 pm) by at least 12 youths in Otahuhu, some of them brandishing knives and hammers.
15:
A
Week of It: Winston Peters IV
Transcript
Just before the election A Week of It thought it worthwhile to leave the funny stuff (or at least attempts at funny stuff) and furnish the public with a transcript of an interview with Winston Peters – conducted earlier this week.
16:
Sludge
Report #169 – Polls, Pundits &
Consultants
In This Edition: - Video Clip: Spot The Puppet Strings… - Election 2005 In The Media - Bouquets - Bugger The Pollsters… - Bugger The Pundits… - & Bugger The Consultants… - Bottom line analysis: There are only really two possibilities.. Labour Victory ...
17:
National
admit real health policy kept
secret
Don Brash must immediately release National's detailed health policy that Paul Hutchinson has admitted the party is keeping secret says Cabinet Minister Pete Hodgson.
18:
New
Zealand First's 15 Fundamental
Principles
Parliament will be reduced to 80 Members and the numbers of consultancies and Government Advisors will be cut by over 50%. Only on a vote of confidence in a Government (in which New Zealand First is a member) will New Zealand First's Members of Parliament ...
19:
Keith
Locke To Run Down Epsom Main Street Naked
The Newmarket Business Association is paving the way to make it very easy for Green MP Keith Locke to deliver on his promise to run naked through the streets of Epsom if ACT MP Rodney Hide was victorious in Epsom on election night.
20:
Post-Election
Negotiations - Maori Party
"Neither National nor Labour will achieve an absolute majority and each of these parties will want to talk with the Mäori Party" says the President of the Party, Professor Whatarangi Winiata.
21:
Maori
Party confirm it’ll support
National
Tamaki Makaurau MP John Tamihere is calling on Maori to ensure they use both of their votes for Labour tomorrow to keep Don Brash and National out of government.
22:
Last
Beehive Bulletin Before Election
2005
New Zealand has been rated first ahead of 154 other countries, for ease of doing business, by the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation, Finance Minister Michael Cullen said this week. The rating, published in the Doing Business in 2006 ...
23:
National
Picked To Win 45% Of Party Vote
National are predicted to win 45% of the party vote according to a poll of 16,918 New Zealanders run by online marketplace Trade Me.
24:
Scoop:
Top Scoops ** ELECTION EVE SPECIAL
**
SLUDGE: POLLS PUNDITS & CONSULTANTS - Selwyn Manning: Informed Choice & Unfinished Business - ELECTION BRIEFINGS - SCOOP TALKS TO THE PLAYERS - Labour Says Nats Keeping Its Health Policy Secret - The Moral Agenda Behind The Exclusive Brethren's Campaign ...
25:
NEWSFLASH:
It's A Draw! So Far
With 84% of the polling places counted the election result in terms of seats is now an exact draw between the parties of the left and those of the right with 61 seats each, the Maori Party having a two seat overhang.
26:
Needed:
Tax Cuts But Not National's Other
Policies
Tomorrow's election feels like 1975, 1987 and 1996. The common thread for these three was the economic recession that followed. In each case the macroeconomic situation was critical, but not correctly understood. In 1975, 1987 and 1996 New Zealand had ...
27:
Scoop
Election Sweepstake – Scoop's
Picks
So far we have 150 odd entries in the Scoop guess the election result sweepstake. You have to be in to win!
28:
New
Zealand technology company takes on
world
In a few weeks New Zealand mobile solutions specialist, Datasquirt, will be putting itself on the world platform with a new product that cashes in on the thriving mobile phone texting market.
29:
Greens virtually win election
The Green Party is claiming an 'e-victory' after running the most creative and technologically advanced election campaign, Co-Leader Rod Donald says.
30:
Don
Brash, Civil Unions & The Exclusive
Brethren
Last year Dr Don Brash after careful consideration of select committee submissions on the Civil Union Bill changed his mind on supporting the controversial legislation. Dr Brash stated in a press release in November 2004:
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