2023 New Zealand general election

The 2023 New Zealand general election was held on 14 October 2023 to determine the 54th Parliament of New Zealand. Voters elected 120 members to the New Zealand House of Representatives under the mixed-member proportional (MMP) voting system, a proportional representation system in which 72 members were elected from single-member electorates and 48 members from closed party lists.

2023 New Zealand general election

14 October 2023
All 123 seats in the House of Representatives, including three overhang seats. 62 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout	2,883,412 (78.2%; 4.04 pp)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Christopher Luxon Chris Hipkins James Shaw Marama Davidson Party Leader since 30 November 2021 22 January 2023 30 May 2015 8 April 2018 Leader's seat Botany Remutaka List Last election 33 seats, 25.58% 65 seats, 50.01% 10 seats, 7.86% Seats before 34 62 9 Seats won 48 34 15 Seat change 14 28 6 Electorate vote 984,148 43.45% 9.32 692,832 31.23% 16.84 160,200 8.26% 2.52 Party vote 1,085,016 38.06% 12.48 767,236 26.91% 23.10 330,883 11.60% 3.74   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   ma‾-o•ri Leader David Seymour Winston Peters Debbie Ngarewa-Packer Rawiri Waititi Party ACT Te Pāti Māori Leader since 4 October 2014 18 July 1993 15 April 2020 28 October 2020 Leader's seat Epsom List Te Tai Hauāuru (won seat) Waiariki Last election 10 seats, 7.59% 0 seats, 2.60% 2 seats, 1.17% Seats before 10 0 2 Seats won 11 8 6 Seat change 1 8 4 Electorate vote 118,953 5.45% 1.99 64,797 2.80% 1.73 76,421 3.89% 1.73 Party vote 246,409 8.64% 1.05 173,425 6.08% 3.48 87,973 3.08% 1.91
Prime Minister before election Chris Hipkins Subsequent Prime Minister Christopher Luxon

The incumbent centre-left Labour majority government, led by Chris Hipkins, tried to win a third term in government. However, they were defeated by the centre-right National Party, led by Opposition Leader Christopher Luxon, in a landslide. National will need support from the ACT party (and possibly also New Zealand First) to form government.

At the 2020 election, the centre-left Labour Party, led by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, won an outright majority in the House. The main opponents to the Labour government is the centre-right National Party, led by Christopher Luxon, and the right-wing ACT party, led by David Seymour.

On 19 January 2023, Ardern announced she would resign as Labour leader and prime minister before 7 February.

Candidates

• Prime Minister
  Chris Hipkins
  (Labour Party)
  from Remutaka

• Opposition Leader
  Christopher Luxon
  (National Party)
  from Botany

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

• Member of Parliament
  David Seymour
  (ACT)
  from Epsom

• Member of Parliament
  Debbie Ngarewa-Packer
  (Māori Party)
  for List

Opinion polls

Graph of opinion polls conducted; smoothing is set to span = 0.65

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2023 New Zealand General Election Media

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  The governor-general, Dame Cindy Kiro, signs the writ for the general election at Government House, Auckland, on 10 September 2023, watched by the chief electoral officer, Karl Le Quesne

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  Hipkins in Lower Hutt announcing Labour's policy of removing GST for fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables and increases to Working for Families

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  Green Party campaign sign for the 2023 general election

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  Seymour in Palmerston North for an ACT public meeting on 30 July 2023

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  Map of party vote by left/right bloc split

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  2023 NZ House of Representatives

Other websites

• Electoral Commission website