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This article summarises results of the 17 October 2020 New Zealand general election, including both party vote and electorate vote outcomes.

Release of results

Preliminary results were released gradually after polling booths closed at 19:00 (NZDT) on 17 October. The preliminary count only includes advance ordinary and election day ordinary votes; it does not include any special votes, which have a deadline ten days later (27 October). Special votes include votes from those who enrolled after the deadline of 13 September, those who voted outside their electorate (including all overseas votes), voters in hospital or prison, and those voters enrolled on the unpublished roll. The votes in the cannabis referendum and the euthanasia referendum were counted after election day, with preliminary results released on 30 October.

All voting papers, counterfoils and electoral rolls are returned to the electorate's returning officer for a mandatory recount; this also includes approving and counting any special votes, and compiling a master roll to ensure no voter has voted more than once. To simplify processing and counting, overseas votes will be sent to and counted at the Electoral Commission's central processing centre in Wellington, rather than to electorate returning officers. Official results, including all recounted ordinary votes and special votes, as well as the official results of the two referendums, are expected to be released by the Electoral Commission on 6 November 2020.

Parties and candidates have three working days after the release of the official results to apply for a judicial recount. These recounts take place under the auspices of a District Court judge (the Chief District Court Judge in case of a nationwide recount), and may delay the return of the election writ by a few days.

Party vote

Party vote percentage

Summary of the 17 October 2020 election for the House of Representatives

Party		Party vote				Electorate vote sum				Total seats	+/-
		Votes	%	Change (pp)	Seats	Votes	%	Change (pp)	Seats
	Labour	1,443,545	50.01	13.12	19	1,357,501	48.07	10.19	46	65	19
	National	738,275	25.58	18.87	10	963,845	34.13	9.92	23	33	23
	Green	226,757	7.86	1.59	9	162,245	5.74	1.17	1	10	2
	ACT	219,031	7.59	7.08	9	97,697	3.46	2.45	1	10	9
	NZ First	75,020	2.60	4.60	0	30,209	1.07	4.38	0	0	9
	Opportunities (TOP)	43,449	1.51	0.94	0	25,181	0.89	0.14	0	0
	New Conservative	42,613	1.48	1.24	0	49,598	1.76	1.52	0	0
	Māori Party	33,630	1.17	0.01	1	60,837	2.15	0.04	1	2	2
	Advance NZ	28,429	0.98	new	0	25,054	0.89	new	0	0	new
	Legalise Cannabis	13,329	0.46	0.15	0	8,044	0.28	0.12	0	0
	ONE	8,121	0.28	new	0	6,830	0.24	new	0	0	new
	Vision NZ	4,237	0.15	new	0	2,139	0.08	new	0	0	new
	Outdoors	3,256	0.11	0.05	0	7,982	0.28	0.23	0	0
	TEA	2,414	0.08	new	0	2,764	0.10	new	0	0	new
	Sustainable NZ	1,880	0.07	new	0	2,421	0.09	new	0	0	new
	Social Credit	1,520	0.05	0.02	0	2,699	0.11	0.09	0	0
	Heartland	914	0.03	new	0	8,462	0.30	new	0	0	new
	Unregistered parties	—	—	—	—	3,391	0.12	0.08	0	0
	Independent	—	—	—	—	7,299	0.26	0.24	0	0
Valid votes		2,886,420	98.88	0.34		2,824,198	96.75	0.58
Informal votes		21,372	0.73	0.32		57,138	1.96	0.80
Disallowed votes		11,281	0.39	0.66		37,737	2.66	1.37
Below electoral threshold		225,182	7.71			—	—	—
Total		2,919,073	100		48	2,919,073	100		72	120
Eligible voters and turnout		3,549,580	82.24	2.49		3,549,580	82.24	2.49

Party vote by electorate

The following is a breakdown of the party vote received in each electorate, for parties receiving at least 1% of the nationwide party vote.

Electorate vote

The table below shows the results of the 2020 general election:

Key

  National
  Labour
  ACT
  Green
  NZ First
  New Conservative
  Opportunities
  Māori Party
  Heartland
  Advance NZ
  Legalise Cannabis
  Vision NZ
  Independent

List results

MP changes

Based on preliminary results, there were 40 new MPs: 22 for Labour, 5 for National, 9 for ACT, 3 for the Greens, and 1 for the Māori Party. When final results were announced on 6 November, this rose to 42 new members, the two additional new members being Emily Henderson (Labour) and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer (Māori).

Notes

1. Was Andrew Falloon until his immediate resignation on 21 July 2020.
2. The David Seymour who contested the electorate of Whangārei for ACT is a different person from ACT party leader, David Seymour, who re-contested and won his Auckland seat of Epsom.
3. The resignation of Andrew Falloon was effective immediately, but since it took place less than six months before the general election, a by-election to fill the vacancy was not required.

References

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