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A post-election chorus: winners, losers, what it means and what happens next
TL;DR: National (38.9% and 50 seats) won the election overnight and will now have to decide how it forms a Government with both ACT (8.98% and 11 seats) and New Zealand First (6.46% and eight seats). National didn’t win quite enough seats to govern comfortably alone with ACT so will have to so something with Winston Peters, even if it is peripheral, outside Cabinet and includes a few baubles.
The details won’t be clear until the specials are counted and we find out what the baubles look like. They could include some sort of new Provincial Growth Fund and a ministerial role for Peters and…
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