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Final Election Results
Final Election Results
The final election results including special
votes has confirmed that National has lost one seat to
have 59 MPs and the Greens have gained one to make caucus of
14.
There was heavy trading across many of the iPredict 2011
2011 election stocks ahead of the public announcement
with many traders picking the change in the overall
composition of Parliament.
Other close results
included Labour's Brendon Burns losing Christchurch Central
to National's Nicky Wagner by 45 votes after a dead heat on
Election Day and Labour's Carmel Sepuloni taking Waitakere
off Cabinet Minister Paula Bennett by 11 votes.
Sepuloni's win means Labour list MP Raymond Huo
will not be an MP and National’s drop in vote share leaves
Aaron Gilmore out of Parliament as well.
The Green
Party vote share climbed to 11.06 percent and brought in
Mojo Mathers on their list.
National’s deals with
United Future and ACT means it holds a single vote majority
of 61 seats in a 121 seat Parliament, but this may increase
if the Maori Party’s three MPs strike a
deal.
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