Is the overhang a threat to MMP itself?

Nights · Oct 5, 2026 · 14m

Extra seats being added to Parliament because a party has one more electorate seat than its share of the party vote would normally give it is nothing new. But this year, the possibility of parties and their supporters, deliberately trying to engineer an overhang to skew the proportionality of Parliament in their favour has put the issue firmly in the spotlight.