The Hoon around the week to Nov 4
TL;DR: The five things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political economy that we wrote and spoke about via The Kākā and elsewhere for paying subscribers in the last week included:
* The Electoral Commission declared the final election results after counting special votes, including National (48) losing two election-night electorate seats to Labour (34), Te Pāti Māori (6) winning two more electorate seats from Labour (6), the Greens winning one more list seat (15), and ACT (11) and NZ First (8) unchanged;
* the final results mean National-ACT on 59 (soon to be 60 after National wins Port Waikato)…
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