2026 General Election - Preliminary Count

Advance Party Votes - 28.6% of advance votes counted

1,006 of 3,513 results counted, 745,267 votes counted.

This table shows advance ordinary votes excluding special declaration votes. The votes shown here are included in the total preliminary count results.

NOTE - The electorate, list and total seats are indicative of the make-up of parliament if ONLY the Advance votes were counted. These are not the preliminary count for ALL votes.

Party Votes % of Votes Electorate Seats List Seats Total seats
National Party 231,664 31.27 42 - 42
Labour Party 209,271 28.24 19 15 34
Green Party 94,204 12.71 3 12 15
ACT New Zealand 83,939 11.33 1 13 14
New Zealand First Party 72,152 9.73 - 12 12
Opportunity Party 41,521 5.60 - 7 7
Te Pāti Māori 2,825 0.38 5 - 5
Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party 1,036 0.13 - - -
Animal Justice Party Aotearoa New Zealand 729 0.09 - - -
New Zealand Loyal 700 0.09 - - -
NZ Outdoors & Freedom Party 607 0.08 - - -
Women’s Rights Party 546 0.07 - - -
Conservative Party NZ 497 0.06 - - -
Vision New Zealand 383 0.05 - - -
Alliance Party 340 0.04 - - -
Free Palestine 253 0.03 - - -
Te Tai Tokerau Party 158 0.02 - - -
Total 740,825 70 59 129

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This is not the formal declaration of results.
The Electoral Commission declares the results of the official count by publishing a notice in the NZ Gazette.

The Electoral Commission aims to have the official results published on Friday 27 November. Detailed information to be presented to the House of Representatives (E9), including allocation of list seats, voting place information and special vote statistics, is expected to be available by Monday 14 December.