NZ Election 2026: What Every Voter Needs To Know About MMP
You've got two ticks on the ballot paper. One chooses your local MP. The other largely determines how many seats your chosen party gets, if it qualifies.
I work through the room-of-chairs example, the 5% or one-electorate rule, why TOP received more than 63,000 votes but no MPs in 2023, and how ACT qualified below 5% in 2008. Then we get to the part after election night: who can put together the support to govern.
You can give both votes to the same party or split them. What matters is understanding what each tick does. These are examples of the rules, not recommendations about who to vote…
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