2020 New Zealand general election

The 2020 New Zealand general election was held after the currently elected 52nd New Zealand Parliament is dissolved or expires. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the election date as Saturday 17 October 2020.

2020 New Zealand general election

17 October 2020
All 120 seats in the House of Representatives 61 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout	2,919,073 (82.24%; 2.49 pp)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Jacinda Ardern Judith Collins James Shaw Marama Davidson Party Leader since 1 August 2017 14 July 2020 30 May 2015 8 April 2018 Leader's seat Mount Albert Papakura List Last election 46 seats 36.89% 56 seats 44.45% 8 seats 6.27% Seats before 46 56 8 Seats won 65 33 10 Seat change 19 23 2 Electorate vote 1,357,501 48.07% 10.19 pp 963,845 34.13% 9.92 pp 162,245 5.74% 1.17 pp Party vote 1,443,545 50.01% 13.12 pp 738,275 25.58% 18.87 pp 226,757 7.86% 1.59 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   ma‾-o•ri Leader David Seymour John Tamihere Debbie Ngarewa-Packer Winston Peters Party ACT Leader since 4 October 2014 15 April 2020 18 July 1993 Leader's seat Epsom Ran in Tāmaki Makaurau (lost) List List (lost) Last election 1 seat 0.50% 0 seats 1.18% 9 seats 7.20% Seats before 1 0 9 Seats won 10 2 0 Seat change 9 2 9 Electorate vote 97,697 3.46% 2.45 pp 60,837 2.15% 0.04 pp 30,209 1.07% 4.38 pp Party vote 219,031 7.59% 7.08 pp 33,630 1.17% 0.01 pp 75,020 2.60% 4.60 pp
Map of the general election. Electorate results are shown on the left, Māori electorate results in the centre, and the list members on the right.
Prime Minister before election Jacinda Ardern Labour Subsequent Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Labour

In the last election, Labour Party, led by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, formed a minority coalition government with the New Zealand First party.

Incumbent Prime Minister Ardern was re-elected with a Labour landslide victory.

Candidates

• Prime Minister
  Jacinda Ardern
  (Labour Party)
  from Mount Albert

• Opposition Leader
  Judith Collins
  (National Party)
  from Papakura

• Deputy Prime Minister
  Winston Peters
  (NZ First)
  from Northland

• Members of Parliament
  James Shaw and Marama Davidson
  (Green Party)
  for List

• Member of Parliament
  David Seymour
  (ACT)
  from Epsom

Election changes

Electorate boundaries for the next election are due to be redrawn in 2019, after the 2018 census and Māori electoral option. This means that unless a snap election is called before 2019, the next general election will be the first to use boundaries based on the 2018 census.

Opinion polling

Seat projections

Party		2017 election result	Roy Morgan 30 Oct – 12 Nov 2017 poll	1 News Colmar Brunton 19–23 May 2018 poll	Radio NZ 5 Jun 2018 poll of polls	Newshub Reid Research 17–24 May 2018 poll
National Party	56	51	58	57	58
Labour Party	46	49	55	54	55
New Zealand First	9	6	0	0	0
Green Party	8	13	6	8	8
ACT	1	1	1	1	1*
Seats in Parliament		120	120	120	120	122
Overall result (majority)		National−NZ First (65)	Labour−Green (62)	Labour−Green (61)	Labour−Green (62)	Labour–Green (63)
		Labour−Green−NZ First (63)
Note: Forecasted seats are currently calculated using the Electoral Commission's MMP seat allocation calculator, based on polling results.

2020 New Zealand General Election Media

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  2020 New Zealand general election - List Results

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  The 2014 electoral boundaries showing electorates out of tolerance following the 2018 census and Māori electoral option. Orange electorates were more than 5% above quota and therefore had to drop population. Blue electorates were more than 5% below quota and therefore had to add population.

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  Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy (right) issues the writ for the election before the chief electoral officer, Alicia Wright (left), on 13 September 2020.

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  Election hoardings lining the Dunedin Northern Motorway, August 2020

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  Map of party votes in each electorate. Labour won the most party votes in 71 of the 72 electorates, losing only Epsom.

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  Party affiliation of winning electorate candidates.

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  Depiction of the government formation. While Labour formed a majority government, they chose to invite the Greens to participate in an idiosyncratic "cooperation agreement", which gave the latter two ministers outside cabinet.