Results of the 2020 New Zealand general election explained

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.^[1] 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).^[2] 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outside their electorate (including all overseas votes), voters in hospital or prison, and those voters enrolled on the unpublished roll.^[3] The votes in the cannabis referendum and the euthanasia referendum were counted after election day, with preliminary results released on 30 October.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.^[4] 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),^{[5] [6]} and may delay the return of the election writ by a few days.^[7]

Party vote

| colspan=12 align=center| |- style="text-align:center;"! colspan=2 rowspan=2 style="width:213px;" | Party! colspan=4 | Party vote! colspan=4 | Electorate vote sum! rowspan=2 | Total
seats! rowspan=2 | +/-|- style="text-align:center;"! Votes! %! Change
(pp)! Seats! Votes! %! Change
(pp)! Seats|-| | 1,443,545| 50.01| 13.12| 19| 1,357,501| 48.07| 10.19| 46| 65| 19|-| | 738,275| 25.58| 18.87| 10| 963,845| 34.13| 9.92| 23| 33| 23|-|

| 226,757| 7.86| 1.59| 9| 162,245| 5.74| 1.17| 1| 10| 2|-|

| 219,031| 7.59| 7.08| 9| 97,697| 3.46| 2.45| 1| 10| 9

|-| | 75,020| 2.60| 4.60| 0| 30,209| 1.07| 4.38| 0| 0| 9|-| (TOP)

| 43,449| 1.51| 0.94| 0| 25,181| 0.89| 0.14| 0| 0| |-| | 42,613| 1.48 | 1.24| 0| 49,598| 1.76| 1.52| 0| 0| |-|

| 33,630| 1.17| 0.01| 1| 60,837| 2.15| 0.04| 1| 2| 2|-| | 28,429| 0.98| new| 0| 25,054| 0.89| new| 0| 0| new|-| | 13,329| 0.46| 0.15| 0| 8,044| 0.28| 0.12| 0| 0| |-|

| 8,121| 0.28| new| 0| 6,830| 0.24| new| 0| 0| new|-| | 4,237| 0.15| new| 0| 2,139| 0.08| new| 0| 0| new|-| | 3,256| 0.11| 0.05| 0| 7,982| 0.28| 0.23| 0| 0| |-|

| 2,414| 0.08| new| 0| 2,764| 0.10| new| 0| 0| new|-| | 1,880| 0.07| new| 0| 2,421| 0.09| new| 0| 0| new|-| | 1,520| 0.05| 0.02| 0| 2,699| 0.11| 0.09| 0| 0| |-| | 914| 0.03| new| 0| 8,462| 0.30| new| 0| 0| new|-| style="background-color:#ffffff" || style="text-align:left;" |Unregistered parties| —| —| —| —| 3,391| 0.12| 0.08| 0| 0| |-| | —| —| —| —| 7,299| 0.26| 0.24| 0| 0| |-! colspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | Valid votes

! 2,886,420! 98.88! 0.34!! 2,824,198! 96.75! 0.58! Colspan=3 ||-| colspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | Informal votes| 21,372| 0.73| 0.32!| 57,138| 1.96| 0.80| Colspan=3 ||-| colspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | Disallowed votes| 11,281| 0.39| 0.66!| 37,737| 2.66| 1.37| Colspan=3 ||-| colspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | Below electoral threshold| 225,182| 7.71| !| —| —| —| Colspan=3 ||-! colspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | Total! 2,919,073! 100!! 48! 2,919,073! 100!! 72! 120!|-| colspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | Eligible voters and turnout| 3,549,580| 82.24| 2.49!| 3,549,580| 82.24| 2.49| Colspan=3 ||}

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.^[8]

Electorate	Labour	National	Green	ACT	NZ First	New Conservative	TOP	Māori
	46.22	21.19	19.14	7.52	1.72	0.54	2.14	0.31
Banks Peninsula	50.47	21.03	14.26	7.00	1.99	1.26	2.18	0.29
	42.80	32.57	4.76	10.09	2.95	2.14	1.66	0.43
Botany	47.59	37.14	3.29	6.81	1.44	1.44	0.63	0.19
Christchurch Central	53.64	19.60	12.78	6.20	2.13	1.18	2.19	0.35
Christchurch East	60.26	16.58	8.46	6.16	2.49	2.03	1.43	0.35
Coromandel	43.55	32.76	5.63	9.74	3.03	1.63	0.85	0.25
Dunedin	55.39	14.14	17.82	5.29	1.72	0.91	2.82	0.33
East Coast	50.40	26.96	5.53	7.78	3.44	1.09	0.91	0.75
East Coast Bays	40.25	38.38	6.16	8.81	1.72	1.79	1.14	0.17
Epsom	36.05	37.46	10.99	10.41	1.46	0.50	1.97	0.26
Hamilton East	49.14	27.44	8.00	6.92	2.11	2.01	2.19	0.49
Hamilton West	52.65	25.31	5.68	6.92	2.56	2.05	2.08	0.53
	55.14	21.99	9.43	5.63	2.35	1.16	2.16	0.44
	44.93	29.64	10.34	8.77	1.77	1.23	1.97	0.25
Invercargill	48.09	29.97	3.46	9.61	3.04	2.15	1.08	0.19
Kaikōura	44.60	30.28	5.31	11.45	2.90	1.86	1.15	0.16
Kaipara ki Mahurangi	40.31	33.97	6.31	11.27	2.58	1.49	1.29	0.28
Kelston	62.50	17.33	8.29	4.37	2.59	1.37	1.15	0.52
Mana	58.55	18.48	9.70	5.57	2.21	0.98	1.99	0.56
Mangere	77.37	9.11	3.99	1.55	2.76	1.73	0.41	0.90
Manurewa	73.91	13.03	3.03	1.73	2.87	1.69	0.46	0.82
Maungakiekie	50.75	25.97	9.14	7.14	2.10	1.12	1.87	0.43
Mount Albert	48.90	18.75	20.06	6.00	1.83	0.58	2.53	0.49
Mount Roskill	56.17	24.44	8.02	4.99	1.92	1.20	1.31	0.37
Napier	50.94	28.10	5.86	8.18	2.16	1.47	1.29	0.28
Nelson	53.98	20.71	9.08	8.20	1.90	1.56	1.75	0.20
New Lynn	53.33	21.88	11.45	6.31	2.33	1.16	1.30	0.46
New Plymouth	48.46	30.21	4.63	8.00	2.27	1.73	1.78	0.48
North Shore	41.35	34.05	8.34	9.86	1.90	1.21	1.90	0.25
Northcote	49.56	27.67	8.69	7.32	1.93	1.34	1.85	0.23
Northland	43.98	27.48	6.10	9.51	5.83	1.85	1.01	0.40
Ōhariu	51.07	22.30	13.61	6.10	1.89	0.86	2.80	0.35
Ōtaki	52.56	26.60	6.45	7.18	2.66	1.38	1.06	0.31
Pakuranga	42.05	38.53	4.64	8.57	2.16	1.33	0.93	0.20
Palmerston North	54.89	21.92	7.41	6.76	2.98	1.81	1.95	0.46
Panmure-Ōtāhuhu	73.66	12.75	4.12	2.39	2.48	1.23	0.75	0.65
Papakura	42.74	37.11	4.04	8.81	2.78	1.58	0.82	0.32
Port Waikato	40.38	36.40	3.35	10.71	2.94	1.69	0.92	0.32
Rangitata	48.85	31.48	3.12	9.66	2.00	2.01	0.97	0.13
Rangitīkei	44.56	30.25	4.61	11.39	3.37	1.98	1.41	0.43
Remutaka	58.55	19.11	7.17	6.02	2.99	1.58	1.90	0.39
	52.61	13.25	23.72	3.88	1.95	0.51	2.80	0.44
Rotorua	46.68	28.65	4.75	9.06	3.62	1.84	1.59	0.91
Selwyn	42.12	34.01	4.87	12.56	2.00	1.77	1.31	0.14
Southland	38.85	36.07	5.28	12.70	2.01	1.49	1.56	0.15
Taieri	59.43	21.29	5.45	7.37	2.63	1.12	1.28	0.12
	55.00	30.08	3.31	4.64	1.98	1.70	0.60	0.44
Tāmaki	38.61	37.06	7.68	11.73	1.62	0.69	1.34	0.30
Taranaki-King Country	37.71	36.50	4.82	11.42	2.76	2.74	1.23	0.46
Taupō	45.27	32.75	3.80	9.83	2.78	1.54	1.34	0.37
Tauranga	42.33	32.75	5.49	9.02	3.64	2.36	1.93	0.35
Te Atatū	58.05	22.72	6.51	5.13	2.54	1.41	1.06	0.67
Tukituki	48.29	29.79	5.41	8.91	2.07	2.15	1.08	0.39
Upper Harbour	48.31	31.39	5.33	7.59	1.97	1.86	1.38	0.36
Waikato	39.48	37.72	3.52	10.52	2.71	2.55	1.26	0.35
Waimakariri	49.69	28.50	4.67	9.31	2.13	3.01	0.94	0.16
Wairarapa	48.18	29.27	5.18	9.19	3.43	1.49	1.09	0.28
Waitaki	44.08	31.26	5.66	11.65	1.98	1.92	1.30	0.12
	43.57	14.48	30.44	4.88	1.12	0.43	3.74	0.53
West Coast-Tasman	47.34	25.22	8.24	9.77	2.96	1.68	1.28	0.20
Whanganui	51.71	26.37	4.88	7.94	3.33	1.68	0.95	0.54
Whangaparāoa	40.04	36.70	4.89	10.61	2.15	2.29	1.22	0.20
Whangārei	47.28	26.19	6.18	8.24	5.12	1.84	1.50	0.34
Wigram	55.17	21.57	9.11	5.78	2.03	1.64	2.46	0.32
Hauraki-Waikato	64.73	3.73	6.35	1.31	3.66	0.41	1.02	12.26
Ikaroa-Rāwhiti	67.33	2.33	6.48	0.88	3.76	0.38	0.74	12.16
Tāmaki Makaurau	61.09	3.16	10.65	1.08	4.28	0.52	1.04	12.93
Te Tai Hauāuru	61.98	3.04	6.82	1.22	3.57	0.33	1.01	15.69
Te Tai Tokerau	61.10	3.67	7.48	1.33	7.23	0.40	1.02	10.35
Te Tai Tonga	59.54	5.72	11.70	2.79	3.50	0.71	1.86	8.81
Waiariki	60.67	2.39	5.95	0.94	3.67	0.38	0.90	17.75

Electorate vote

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

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