Phil Goff: Former Labour Leader unpacks the election campaign to date

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Oct 29, 2026 · 3m · transcript

Possible overhangs, high voter turnout, lower enrolment, and the Opportunity Party all mean the outcome of the election is too close to call, former Labour leader Phil Goff says.

“Come Election Night, by midnight we may well not know who is going to govern New Zealand and that may take a couple of weeks after that, probably up to the edge of Christmas,” Goff told Ryan Bridge.

While National could get a “huge overhang” if people split their candidate and party votes, it wasn’t clear if that campaign was working, Goff said.

He also believed turnout this year would be better than in 2023, based…