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election</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/50px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/75px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/100px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span><hr /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><table style="width:100%; margin:1px; display:inline-table;"><tbody><tr> <td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0 0.5em 0 0;width:20%;" class="noprint">← <a href="/wiki/1990_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1990 New Zealand general election">1990</a></td> <td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;; padding:0 1px;width:60%;" class=""><b>6 November 1993<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1993-11-06</span>)</span></b></td> <td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:middle;; padding:0 0 0 0.5em;width:20%;" class="noprint"><a href="/wiki/1996_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1996 New Zealand general election">1996</a> →</td> </tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><div style="width:100%"><div style="float: left; text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;width:40%; text-align:center;" class="noprint">← <a href="/wiki/43rd_New_Zealand_Parliament" title="43rd New Zealand Parliament">outgoing members</a></div><div style="float: right; text-align:right;padding-left:0.5em;width:40%; text-align:center;" class="noprint"><a href="/wiki/44th_New_Zealand_Parliament" title="44th New Zealand Parliament">elected members</a> →</div></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><hr />All 99 seats in the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_House_of_Representatives" title="New Zealand House of Representatives">House of Representatives</a><br />50 seats needed for a majority</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_1993_New_Zealand_general_election" title="Opinion polling for the 1993 New Zealand general election">Opinion polls</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Turnout</th><td class="infobox-data">1,922,796 (82.82%)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <table style="background:transparent; color: inherit; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr class="sr-only"> <th style="text-align:left;">  </th> <th style="text-align:center">First party </th> <th style="text-align:center">Second party </th></tr> <tr> <td>  </td> <td class="notheme" style="text-align:center;border-bottom: 6px solid #00529F;"><div class=""> <div style="width: 120px; height: 160px; overflow: hidden;"> <div style="position: relative; top: -0px; left: -0px; width: 125px"><div class="noresize"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Jim_Bolger,_1990s.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Jim Bolger,_1990s.jpg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Jim_Bolger%2C_1990s.jpg/125px-Jim_Bolger%2C_1990s.jpg" decoding="async" width="125" height="164" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Jim_Bolger%2C_1990s.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="165" data-file-height="217" /></a></span></div></div> </div> </div> </td> <td class="notheme" style="text-align:center;border-bottom: 6px solid #D82A20;"><div class=""> <div style="width: 120px; height: 160px; overflow: hidden;"> <div style="position: relative; top: -5px; left: -20px; width: 155px"><div class="noresize"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Mike_Moore,_1992_(crop).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Mike Moore, 1992 (crop).jpg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Mike_Moore%2C_1992_%28crop%29.jpg/155px-Mike_Moore%2C_1992_%28crop%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="155" height="194" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Mike_Moore%2C_1992_%28crop%29.jpg/233px-Mike_Moore%2C_1992_%28crop%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Mike_Moore%2C_1992_%28crop%29.jpg/310px-Mike_Moore%2C_1992_%28crop%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="742" data-file-height="927" /></a></span></div></div> </div> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Leader </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Jim_Bolger" title="Jim Bolger">Jim Bolger</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Mike_Moore_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="Mike Moore (New Zealand politician)">Mike Moore</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="width:75px;text-align:left">Party </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Leader since </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/1986_New_Zealand_National_Party_leadership_election" title="1986 New Zealand National Party leadership election">26 March 1986</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/1990_New_Zealand_Labour_Party_leadership_election" title="1990 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election">4 September 1990</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Leader's seat </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/King_Country_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="King Country (New Zealand electorate)">King Country</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Christchurch_North_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Christchurch North (New Zealand electorate)">Christchurch North</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Last election </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">67 seats, 47.82% </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">29 seats, 35.14% </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seats before </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">63 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">29 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seats won </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><b>50</b> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">45 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seat change </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 13 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 16 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Popular vote </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><b>673,892</b> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">666,759 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Percentage </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><b>35.05%</b> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">34.68% </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Swing </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 12.77% </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 0.46% </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4"><hr /> </td></tr> <tr class="sr-only"> <th style="text-align:left;">  </th> <th style="text-align:center">Third party </th> <th style="text-align:center">Fourth party </th></tr> <tr> <td>  </td> <td class="notheme" style="text-align:center;border-bottom: 6px solid #33CC66;"><div class=""> <div style="width: 120px; height: 160px; overflow: hidden;"> <div style="position: relative; top: -0px; left: -10px; width: 190px"><div class="noresize"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Jim_Anderton,_2010.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Jim Anderton, 2010.jpg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Jim_Anderton%2C_2010.jpg/190px-Jim_Anderton%2C_2010.jpg" decoding="async" width="190" height="243" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Jim_Anderton%2C_2010.jpg/285px-Jim_Anderton%2C_2010.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Jim_Anderton%2C_2010.jpg/380px-Jim_Anderton%2C_2010.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2676" data-file-height="3423" /></a></span></div></div> </div> </div> </td> <td class="notheme" style="text-align:center;border-bottom: 6px solid #000000;"><div class=""> <div style="width: 120px; height: 160px; overflow: hidden;"> <div style="position: relative; top: -0px; left: -10px; width: 150px"><div class="noresize"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Winston_Peters_cropped.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Winston Peters cropped.PNG" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Winston_Peters_cropped.PNG/150px-Winston_Peters_cropped.PNG" decoding="async" width="150" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Winston_Peters_cropped.PNG/225px-Winston_Peters_cropped.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Winston_Peters_cropped.PNG/300px-Winston_Peters_cropped.PNG 2x" data-file-width="431" data-file-height="497" /></a></span></div></div> </div> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Leader </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Jim_Anderton" title="Jim Anderton">Jim Anderton</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Winston_Peters" title="Winston Peters">Winston Peters</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="width:75px;text-align:left">Party </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Alliance_(New_Zealand_political_party)" title="Alliance (New Zealand political party)">Alliance</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_First" title="New Zealand First">NZ First</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Leader since </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">1 December 1991 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">18 July 1993 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Leader's seat </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Sydenham_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Sydenham (New Zealand electorate)">Sydenham</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Tauranga_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Tauranga (New Zealand electorate)">Tauranga</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Last election </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">1 seat, 14.28%<sup id="cite_ref-Alliance_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Alliance-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><i>New party</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seats before </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">2 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">2 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seats won </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">2 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">2 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seat change </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Popular vote </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">350,063 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">161,481 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Percentage </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">18.21% </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">8.40% </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Swing </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 3.93%<sup id="cite_ref-Alliance_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Alliance-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 8.40% </td></tr> </tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><hr /><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1993_New_Zealand_general_election.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/1993_New_Zealand_general_election.svg/350px-1993_New_Zealand_general_election.svg.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="505" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/1993_New_Zealand_general_election.svg/525px-1993_New_Zealand_general_election.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/1993_New_Zealand_general_election.svg/700px-1993_New_Zealand_general_election.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1335" data-file-height="1927" /></a></span><div>Results by electorate, shaded by winning margin</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><hr /> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="background:transparent; color: inherit; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width:50%; text-align:left;"><b><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_New_Zealand" title="Prime Minister of New Zealand">Prime Minister</a> before election</b><br /> <p><a href="/wiki/Jim_Bolger" title="Jim Bolger">Jim Bolger</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </p> </td> <td style="width:50%; text-align:right;"><b>Subsequent Prime Minister</b> <br /> <p><a href="/wiki/Jim_Bolger" title="Jim Bolger">Jim Bolger</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>1993 New Zealand general election</b> was held on 6 November 1993 to determine the composition of the <a href="/wiki/44th_New_Zealand_Parliament" title="44th New Zealand Parliament">44th New Zealand Parliament</a>. Voters elected 99 members to the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="House of Representatives (New Zealand)">House of Representatives</a>, up from 97 members at the 1990 election. The election was held concurrently with an <a href="/wiki/1993_New_Zealand_electoral_reform_referendum" title="1993 New Zealand electoral reform referendum">electoral reform referendum</a> to replace the <a href="/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting" title="First-past-the-post voting">first-past-the-post</a> system, with all members elected from single-member <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_electorates" title="New Zealand electorates">electorates</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Mixed-member_proportional_representation" title="Mixed-member proportional representation">mixed-member proportional representation</a>. It saw the governing <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National Party</a>, led by <a href="/wiki/Jim_Bolger" title="Jim Bolger">Jim Bolger</a>, win a second term in office, despite a major swing away from National in both seats and votes, and the carrying of the referendum by 53.9% to 46.1%.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Having broken electoral campaign promises and embarked on supply-side economics and wide-sweeping cuts during his first term, Bolger led the most unpopular government since the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression_in_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Depression in New Zealand">Great Depression</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The neoliberal actions of <a href="/wiki/Ruth_Richardson" title="Ruth Richardson">Ruth Richardson</a>, his Minister of Finance, were termed <a href="/wiki/Ruthanasia" title="Ruthanasia">Ruthanasia</a> by the media, and her <a href="/wiki/Mother_of_all_Budgets" title="Mother of all Budgets">Mother of all Budgets</a> in 1991 caused huge protests.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By September 1991, <a href="/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_1993_New_Zealand_general_election" title="Opinion polling for the 1993 New Zealand general election">support for National had plummeted</a> to a hitherto unprecedented polling low of 22%. Mike Moore, ousted by Bolger in a landslide just three years before, attacked National's caucus as dangerous right-wing extremists, and enjoyed considerable personal popularity. While the high unemployment Ruthanasia had caused had recovered somewhat by 1993, Bolger's approval ratings remained dire against Moore up until election day.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With a vote difference of just 7,133 between the two major parties, the election was one of the closest in New Zealand history. Bolger's 17-seat majority gained in 1990 was pared back to a bare majority of one seat. The <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour Party</a>, led by former Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Mike_Moore_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="Mike Moore (New Zealand politician)">Mike Moore</a>, enjoyed a 16-seat rise and almost won outright. The two smaller parties - <a href="/wiki/Winston_Peters" title="Winston Peters">Winston Peters</a>' <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_First" title="New Zealand First">New Zealand First</a>, which he formed after leaving National over conflict with their economic policy, and <a href="/wiki/Jim_Anderton" title="Jim Anderton">Jim Anderton's</a> <a href="/wiki/Alliance_(New_Zealand_political_party)" title="Alliance (New Zealand political party)">Alliance</a> of parties to the left of Labour - both outperformed expectations and won significant shares of the vote. However, the first-past-the-post system kept them from gaining more than two seats each. </p><p>If MMP had been in use, the left-wing bloc of Labour and the Alliance – having secured a larger share of the vote than National or New Zealand First – would likely have formed a government. This was the last time prior to the <a href="/wiki/2020_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2020 New Zealand general election">2020 election</a> where a party won an absolute majority of seats. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1993_New_Zealand_general_election&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Before the election, the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National Party</a> governed with 64 seats, while the opposition <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour Party</a> held only 29. The <a href="/wiki/1990_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1990 New Zealand general election">1990 election</a> had been a major victory for the National Party, with the unpopular <a href="/wiki/Fourth_Labour_Government_of_New_Zealand" title="Fourth Labour Government of New Zealand">Fourth Labour Government</a> being decisively defeated. The Labour Party had become unpopular for its ongoing economic reforms, nicknamed <a href="/wiki/Rogernomics" title="Rogernomics">Rogernomics</a> after Minister of Finance <a href="/wiki/Roger_Douglas" title="Roger Douglas">Roger Douglas</a>, which were based around <a href="/wiki/Liberalisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberalisation">liberalisation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Privatisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Privatisation">privatisation</a>, and the removal of <a href="/wiki/Tariff" title="Tariff">tariffs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Subsidy" title="Subsidy">subsidies</a>. The National Party divided as to the merits of the reforms, with conservatives generally opposed and libertarians generally in favour. The party had fought the 1990 election saying that the Labour government's program was too radical, and was being carried out without any thought of the social consequences – <a href="/wiki/Jim_Bolger" title="Jim Bolger">Jim Bolger</a> spoke about "the Decent Society", promising a return to a more moderate and balanced platform. </p><p>Once in government, however, the key <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Finance_(New_Zealand)" title="Minister of Finance (New Zealand)">Minister of Finance</a> role was taken not by a moderate but by <a href="/wiki/Ruth_Richardson" title="Ruth Richardson">Ruth Richardson</a>, who wished to expand, not end, the economic reforms. Upon gaining power, Richardson intensified the deregulation, creating an portfolio of neoliberal policies popularly known as <a href="/wiki/Ruthanasia" title="Ruthanasia">Ruthanasia</a>. Richardson's "<a href="/wiki/Mother_of_all_Budgets" title="Mother of all Budgets">Mother of all Budgets</a>", released in 1991, slashed available unemployment, sickness and welfare benefits. The families benefit by $25.00 to $27.00, unemployment benefit was cut by $14.00 a week, sickness benefit by $27.04. Universal payments for family benefits were completely abolished, and <a href="/wiki/User_pays" title="User pays">user pay</a> schemes were introduced in a <a href="/wiki/Libertarianism" title="Libertarianism">libertarian</a> fashion.<sup id="cite_ref-Revolution_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Revolution-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Employment_Relations_Act_2000" title="Employment Relations Act 2000">Employment Contracts Act</a> sought to weaken trade unions, by meaning employees had to have individual contracts or be on a single-employer collective agreement.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Richardson also ended free <a href="/wiki/Tertiary_education_in_New_Zealand" title="Tertiary education in New Zealand">tertiary education</a> altogether, after the Fourth Labour Government had ended bursaries.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>These policies, a steep departure even from Rogernomics, led to a major backlash in multiple aspects of society, both on the left and the right.<sup id="cite_ref-Revolution_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Revolution-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Students and trade unionists led protests and marches in Wellington and Auckland against university cuts and the Employment Contracts Bill.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many of the voters who had felt betrayed by Labour's reforms now felt betrayed by the National Party as well. The Mother of all Budgets not only caused widespread public contempt for the National Party but also wreaked havoc internally.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The budget was lamented by the conservative wing of the National Party; former Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Sir_Robert_Muldoon" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Robert Muldoon">Sir Robert Muldoon</a> resigned from his <a href="/wiki/T%C4%81maki_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Tāmaki (New Zealand electorate)">Tamaki</a> electorate in protest of Richardson's policies, <a href="/wiki/1992_Tamaki_by-election" title="1992 Tamaki by-election">triggering a by-election</a>. Polling declined massively for National, and <a href="/wiki/Mike_Moore_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="Mike Moore (New Zealand politician)">Mike Moore</a> shot up in <a href="/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_1993_New_Zealand_general_election" title="Opinion polling for the 1993 New Zealand general election">approval ratings</a> while attacking National's caucus as right-wing extremists.<sup id="cite_ref-pollednz_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pollednz-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to an episode of <i>Frontline</i> on <a href="/wiki/TVNZ_1" title="TVNZ 1">TVNZ 1</a> that aired less than two weeks before the election, Bolger led the most unpopular government since the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression_in_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Depression in New Zealand">Great Depression</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By September 1991, support for National had plummeted to a hitherto unprecedented polling low of 22%. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Alliance_(New_Zealand_political_party)" title="Alliance (New Zealand political party)">Alliance</a>, the largest "<a href="/wiki/Third_party_(politics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Third party (politics)">third party</a>", was a broad coalition of five smaller groups – the <a href="/wiki/NewLabour_Party_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="NewLabour Party (New Zealand)">NewLabour Party</a> (a Labour splinter), the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_of_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic Party of New Zealand">Democrats</a> (a <a href="/wiki/Social_credit" title="Social credit">social credit</a> party), the <a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand">Greens</a> (an <a href="/wiki/Environmentalism" title="Environmentalism">environmentalist</a> party), <a href="/wiki/Mana_Motuhake_(political_party)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mana Motuhake (political party)">Mana Motuhake</a> (a <a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_people" title="Māori people">Māori</a> party), and the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Liberal_Party_(1991)" title="New Zealand Liberal Party (1991)">Liberal Party</a> (a National splinter). The Alliance held three seats in Parliament – one belonged to <a href="/wiki/Jim_Anderton" title="Jim Anderton">Jim Anderton</a>, who had been re-elected under a NewLabour banner in the seat he had formerly held for Labour, while the other two belonged to the National MPs who formed the Liberal Party. In its first electoral test, the <a href="/wiki/1992_Tamaki_by-election" title="1992 Tamaki by-election">1992 by-election in Tamaki</a>, the Alliance had performed well, taking second place. Another smaller group was <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_First" title="New Zealand First">New Zealand First</a>, a party established by former National MP <a href="/wiki/Winston_Peters" title="Winston Peters">Winston Peters</a>. Peters had broken with his party after a number of policy disputes with its leadership, and resigned from parliament to contest his seat as an independent. After being overwhelmingly re-elected, Peters established New Zealand First to promote his views. Peters was the party's sole MP. </p><p>Another consequence of dissatisfaction with both major parties was the referendum conducted alongside the 1993 election. The culmination of the larger decade-long <a href="/wiki/Electoral_reform_in_New_Zealand" title="Electoral reform in New Zealand">New Zealand electoral reform</a> process, the referendum was held following the September 1992 indicative referendum, which saw 85% of voters voting for change from the existing First Past The Post (FPP) system, and 70% choosing the <a href="/wiki/Mixed-member_proportional_representation" title="Mixed-member proportional representation">Mixed Member Proportional</a> (MMP) as its preferred replacement: a <a href="/wiki/Proportional_representation" title="Proportional representation">proportional</a> system which would make it easier for smaller parties to win seats. It asked voters to choose whether to keep the existing FPP system or change to MMP, with 53.9% of voters opting to change to MMP. </p><p>While National and Labour usually stood candidates in every seat, National was one candidate short as their <a href="/wiki/Southern_Maori" title="Southern Maori">Southern Maori</a> candidate apparently did not apply in time. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="MPs_retiring_in_1993">MPs retiring in 1993</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1993_New_Zealand_general_election&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: MPs retiring in 1993"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Four MPs, including three National MPs and one Labour MP, intended to retire at the end of the 43rd Parliament. </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2">Party</th> <th>Name</th> <th>Electorate </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3" style="background-color: #00529F"> </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jeff_Grant" title="Jeff Grant">Jeff Grant</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Awarua_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Awarua (New Zealand electorate)">Awarua</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Jeff_Whittaker" title="Jeff Whittaker">Jeff Whittaker</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hastings_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Hastings (New Zealand electorate)">Hastings</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Gail_McIntosh" title="Gail McIntosh">Gail McIntosh</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lyttelton_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Lyttelton (New Zealand electorate)">Lyttlelton</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #D82A20"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sonja_Davies" title="Sonja Davies">Sonja Davies</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pencarrow_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Pencarrow (New Zealand electorate)">Pencarrow</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_election">The election</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1993_New_Zealand_general_election&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: The election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The election was held on 6 November. 2,321,664 people were registered to vote, and 85.2% turned out. This turnout was almost exactly the same as for the previous election, although slightly less than what would be seen for the following one. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Summary_of_results">Summary of results</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1993_New_Zealand_general_election&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Summary of results"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>With a vote difference of just 7,133 between the two major parties, the election was one of the closest in New Zealand history. Preliminary results based on election night counts saw the country facing its first <a href="/wiki/Hung_parliament" title="Hung parliament">hung parliament</a> since 1931, with no party gaining the 50 seats required for a majority. The National Party won 49 seats, a drop of 15 from before the election, and Labour had won 46 seats, with the balance of power held with the Alliance and New Zealand First, which won two seats each.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nathistory_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nathistory-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This led to <a href="/wiki/Jim_Bolger" title="Jim Bolger">Jim Bolger</a> saying on public television, "Bugger the pollsters", as polls had predicted a comfortable National victory.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bolger reacted to the election results by giving a conciliatory speech, while Labour leader <a href="/wiki/Mike_Moore_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="Mike Moore (New Zealand politician)">Mike Moore</a> delivered a speech later described by political scientist Jack Vowles as "damaging" and "more appropriate for a decisive Labour win than a narrow defeat."<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On election night result with the two major parties tied, the Governor-General Dame <a href="/wiki/Catherine_Tizard" title="Catherine Tizard">Catherine Tizard</a> asked her predecessor Sir <a href="/wiki/David_Beattie" title="David Beattie">David Beattie</a> to form a committee, along with three retired appeal court judges, to decide whom to appoint as prime minister.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However National won one more seat and was returned to power when the official count saw the seat of <a href="/wiki/Waitaki_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Waitaki (New Zealand electorate)">Waitaki</a> swing from Labour to National, giving National 50 seats and Labour 45 seats. Labour's Sir <a href="/wiki/Peter_Tapsell_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="Peter Tapsell (New Zealand politician)">Peter Tapsell</a> agreed to become <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_New_Zealand_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives">speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives</a> (so that National would not lose a vote in the house). Hence National had a majority of one seat.<sup id="cite_ref-nathistory_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nathistory-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 1993–1996 parliamentary term would see a number of defections from both major parties, meaning that National would eventually be forced to make alliances to retain power. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Detailed_results">Detailed results</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1993_New_Zealand_general_election&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Detailed results"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Party_totals">Party totals</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1993_New_Zealand_general_election&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Party totals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:right; font-size: 95%;"> <caption>Summary of the 6 November 1993 <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_House_of_Representatives" title="New Zealand House of Representatives">New Zealand House of Representatives</a> election results<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <td colspan="7"><figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:NZ_Parliament_Make-Up_1993.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/NZ_Parliament_Make-Up_1993.svg/360px-NZ_Parliament_Make-Up_1993.svg.png" decoding="async" width="360" height="185" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/NZ_Parliament_Make-Up_1993.svg/540px-NZ_Parliament_Make-Up_1993.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/NZ_Parliament_Make-Up_1993.svg/720px-NZ_Parliament_Make-Up_1993.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="185" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" rowspan="2" width="200">Party </th> <th rowspan="2">Votes </th> <th colspan="2">% of votes </th> <th colspan="2">Seats </th></tr> <tr style="background-color:#E9E9E9; text-align:center"> <th>% </th> <th>change </th> <th>total </th> <th>change </th></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#00529F; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">673,892 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">35.05 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">-12.78 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">50 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">-17 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#D82A20; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">666,759 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">34.68 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">-0.46 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">45 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+16 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#33CC66; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Alliance_(New_Zealand_political_party)" title="Alliance (New Zealand political party)">Alliance</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">350,064 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">18.21 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+3.93<sup><b>a</b></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+1<sup><b>b</b></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#000000; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_First" title="New Zealand First">NZ First</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">161,481 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">8.40 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+8.4 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+2 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#878FB8; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Christian_Heritage_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian Heritage New Zealand">Christian Heritage</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">38,749 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2.02 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+1.49 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">– </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFC0CB; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/McGillicuddy_Serious_Party" title="McGillicuddy Serious Party">McGillicuddy Serious</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">11,706 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.61 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.06 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">– </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#333366; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Natural_Law_Party_of_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Natural Law Party of New Zealand">Natural Law</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6,056 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.31 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.31 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">– </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#964B00; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Mana_M%C4%81ori_Movement" title="Mana Māori Movement">Mana Māori</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,342 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.17 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.17 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">– </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#DCDCDC; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td style="text-align:left;">minor parties and independents </td> <td style="text-align:right;">10,747 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.56 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.34 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">– </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#E9E9E9; text-align:right"> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"><b>total votes</b> </td> <td>1,922,796 </td> <td>100.00 </td> <td> </td> <td>99 </td> <td>+2 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> </td> <td> </td> <td colspan="6"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center;" colspan="2">total registered electors </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,321,664 </td> <td colspan="4"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;" colspan="2">turnout </td> <td style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" colspan="5">82.82% </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><sup><b>a</b></sup> Increase over Alliance's constituent member parties' (<a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand">Greens</a>, <a href="/wiki/NewLabour_Party_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="NewLabour Party (New Zealand)">NewLabour</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Democratic_Party_for_Social_Credit" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand Democratic Party for Social Credit">Democrats</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mana_Motuhake" title="Mana Motuhake">Mana Motuhake</a>) combined vote share in <a href="/wiki/1990_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1990 New Zealand general election">1990</a>.<br /> <sup><b>b</b></sup> Increase of one over Alliance's constituent party, <a href="/wiki/NewLabour_Party_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="NewLabour Party (New Zealand)">NewLabour</a>'s result in <a href="/wiki/1990_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1990 New Zealand general election">1990</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Votes_summary">Votes summary</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1993_New_Zealand_general_election&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Votes summary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table style="margin:0; border:none;"><tbody><tr><td style="border:none; padding:0;"><div class="barbox" style="overflow-x: auto;"> <div style="border:1px solid silver; font-size:88%; padding:0.4em; width:600px; background: var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,white); color: var(--color-base,black)"> <table style="text-align:left; border-collapse:collapse; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr style="background:#ddd"><th style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">Popular Vote</th></tr> <tr style="font-size:88%; height:4px;"> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; text-align:left;"></td> <td style="width:410px; text-align:left;"></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; width:1em; text-align:right;"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><b>National</b></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#00529F; width:35.05%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">35.05%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Labour</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#D82A20; width:34.68%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">34.68%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Alliance</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#33CC66; width:18.21%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">18.21%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">NZ First</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#000000; width:8.40%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">8.40%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Christian Heritage</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#878FB8; width:2.02%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">2.02%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Others</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#777777; width:1.65%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">1.65%</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="margin:0; border:none;"><tbody><tr><td style="border:none; padding:0;"><div class="barbox" style="overflow-x: auto;"> <div style="border:1px solid silver; font-size:88%; padding:0.4em; width:600px; background: var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,white); color: var(--color-base,black)"> <table style="text-align:left; border-collapse:collapse; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr style="background:#ddd"><th style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">Parliament seats</th></tr> <tr style="font-size:88%; height:4px;"> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; text-align:left;"></td> <td style="width:410px; text-align:left;"></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; width:1em; text-align:right;"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><b>National</b></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#00529F; width:50.50%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">50.50%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Labour</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#D82A20; width:45.45%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">45.45%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Alliance</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#33CC66; width:2.02%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">2.02%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">NZ First</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#000000; width:2.02%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">2.02%</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Electorate_results">Electorate results</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1993_New_Zealand_general_election&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Electorate results"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:NewZealandElectorates1993-Labeled.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/NewZealandElectorates1993-Labeled.png/650px-NewZealandElectorates1993-Labeled.png" decoding="async" width="650" height="579" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/NewZealandElectorates1993-Labeled.png 1.5x" data-file-width="678" data-file-height="604" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <p>The table below shows the results of the 1993 general election by electorate:<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>Key</b> </p><p><span class="legend nowrap" style="page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column"><span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;border:1px solid black;background-color:#00529F"> </span> <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a></span> <span class="legend nowrap" style="page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column"><span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;border:1px solid black;background-color:#D82A20"> </span> <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a></span> <span class="legend nowrap" style="page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column"><span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;border:1px solid black;background-color:#33CC66"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Alliance_(New_Zealand_political_party)" title="Alliance (New Zealand political party)">Alliance</a></span> <span class="legend nowrap" style="page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column"><span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;border:1px solid black;background-color:#000000"> </span> <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_First" title="New Zealand First">NZ First</a></span> <span class="legend nowrap" style="page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column"><span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;border:1px solid black;background-color:#DCDCDC"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a></span> </p> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption>Electorate results for the 1993 New Zealand general election </caption> <tbody><tr style="text-align:center;"> <th>Electorate </th> <th colspan="2">Incumbent </th> <th colspan="2">Winner </th> <th>Majority </th> <th colspan="2">Runner up </th></tr> <tr> <td colspan="8" style="background-color:#FFDEAD"><b>General electorates</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Albany_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Albany (New Zealand electorate)">Albany</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Don_McKinnon" title="Don McKinnon">Don McKinnon</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">3,651 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#33CC66"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Jill Jeffs </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Auckland_Central_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Auckland Central (New Zealand electorate)">Auckland Central</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Prebble" title="Richard Prebble">Richard Prebble</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#33CC66"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#EEFFBB"><a href="/wiki/Sandra_Lee-Vercoe" title="Sandra Lee-Vercoe">Sandra Lee</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">1,291 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Prebble" title="Richard Prebble">Richard Prebble</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Avon_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Avon (New Zealand electorate)">Avon</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Larry_Sutherland" title="Larry Sutherland">Larry Sutherland</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">5,643 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#33CC66"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Marie Venning </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Awarua_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Awarua (New Zealand electorate)">Awarua</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Jeff_Grant" title="Jeff Grant">Jeff Grant</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Eric_Roy_(politician)" title="Eric Roy (politician)">Eric Roy</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">2,236 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Olivia Scaletti-Longley </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Birkenhead_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Birkenhead (New Zealand electorate)">Birkenhead</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Ian_Revell" title="Ian Revell">Ian Revell</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">104 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Ann_Hartley" title="Ann Hartley">Ann Hartley</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Christchurch_Central_(New_Zealand_electorate)" class="mw-redirect" title="Christchurch Central (New Zealand electorate)">Christchurch Central</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Lianne_Dalziel" title="Lianne Dalziel">Lianne Dalziel</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">6,189 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Andrew Rowe </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Christchurch_North_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Christchurch North (New Zealand electorate)">Christchurch North</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Mike_Moore_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="Mike Moore (New Zealand politician)">Mike Moore</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">6,024 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Lee Morgan </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Clutha_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Clutha (New Zealand electorate)">Clutha</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Robin_Gray_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="Robin Gray (New Zealand politician)">Robin Gray</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">4,117 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Jeff Buchanan </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Dunedin_North_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Dunedin North (New Zealand electorate)">Dunedin North</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Pete_Hodgson" title="Pete Hodgson">Pete Hodgson</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">3,794 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Hugh Perkins </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Dunedin_West_(New_Zealand_electorate)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dunedin West (New Zealand electorate)">Dunedin West</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Clive_Matthewson" title="Clive Matthewson">Clive Matthewson</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">4,477 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Ollie Turner </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/East_Coast_Bays_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="East Coast Bays (New Zealand electorate)">East Coast Bays</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Murray_McCully" title="Murray McCully">Murray McCully</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">4,516 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#33CC66"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Heather-Anne McConachy </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Bay_of_Plenty_(New_Zealand_electorate)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Bay of Plenty (New Zealand electorate)">Eastern Bay of Plenty</a> </td> <td colspan="2" data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">New electorate </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold;background:#CCDDFF;"><a href="/wiki/Tony_Ryall" title="Tony Ryall">Tony Ryall</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">806 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Diane Collins </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Hutt_(New_Zealand_electorate)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Hutt (New Zealand electorate)">Eastern Hutt</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Swain_(politician)" title="Paul Swain (politician)">Paul Swain</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">4,718 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Peter MacMillan </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Eden_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Eden (New Zealand electorate)">Eden</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Christine_Fletcher" title="Christine Fletcher">Christine Fletcher</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">3,394 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Verna Smith </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Far_North_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Far North (New Zealand electorate)">Far North</a> </td> <td colspan="2" data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">New electorate </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold;background:#CCDDFF;"><a href="/wiki/John_Carter_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="John Carter (New Zealand politician)">John Carter</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">3,425 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#000000"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Maryanne Baker </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Fendalton_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Fendalton (New Zealand electorate)">Fendalton</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Philip_Burdon" title="Philip Burdon">Philip Burdon</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">4,982 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Tony Day </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Franklin_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Franklin (New Zealand electorate)">Franklin</a> </td> <td colspan="2" data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">New electorate </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold;background:#CCDDFF;"><a href="/wiki/Bill_Birch" title="Bill Birch">Bill Birch</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">3,543 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#33CC66"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Judy Bischoff </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Gisborne_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Gisborne (New Zealand electorate)">Gisborne</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Wayne_Kimber" title="Wayne Kimber">Wayne Kimber</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Janet_Mackey" title="Janet Mackey">Janet Mackey</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">1,068 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Wayne_Kimber" title="Wayne Kimber">Wayne Kimber</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Glenfield_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Glenfield (New Zealand electorate)">Glenfield</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Peter_Hilt" title="Peter Hilt">Peter Hilt</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">1,983 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Ann_Batten" title="Ann Batten">Ann Batten</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hamilton_East_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Hamilton East (New Zealand electorate)">Hamilton East</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Tony_Steel" title="Tony Steel">Tony Steel</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Dianne_Yates" title="Dianne Yates">Dianne Yates</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">80 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Tony_Steel" title="Tony Steel">Tony Steel</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hamilton_West_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Hamilton West (New Zealand electorate)">Hamilton West</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Grant_Thomas_(politician)" title="Grant Thomas (politician)">Grant Thomas</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Martin_Gallagher" title="Martin Gallagher">Martin Gallagher</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">449 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Grant_Thomas_(politician)" title="Grant Thomas (politician)">Grant Thomas</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hastings_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Hastings (New Zealand electorate)">Hastings</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Jeff_Whittaker" title="Jeff Whittaker">Jeff Whittaker</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Rick_Barker" title="Rick Barker">Rick Barker</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">2,571 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Cynthia Bowers </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hauraki_(New_Zealand_general_electorate)" title="Hauraki (New Zealand general electorate)">Hauraki</a> </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background-color:#ececec;">New electorate </td> <td style="background-color:#00529F;"> </td> <td style="text-align:center;background-color:#CCDDFF;"><b><a href="/wiki/Warren_Kyd" title="Warren Kyd">Warren Kyd</a></b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,870 </td> <td style="background-color:#33CC66;"> </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Jeanette_Fitzsimons" title="Jeanette Fitzsimons">Jeanette Fitzsimons</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hawkes_Bay_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Hawkes Bay (New Zealand electorate)">Hawkes Bay</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Laws" title="Michael Laws">Michael Laws</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">3,143 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Peter Reynolds </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Henderson_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Henderson (New Zealand electorate)">Henderson</a> </td> <td colspan="2" data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">New electorate </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold;background:#FFBAA8;"><a href="/wiki/Jack_Elder_(politician)" title="Jack Elder (politician)">Jack Elder</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">2,130 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">David Jorgensen </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Heretaunga_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Heretaunga (New Zealand electorate)">Heretaunga</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Peter_McCardle" title="Peter McCardle">Peter McCardle</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">832 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Heather_Simpson_(civil_servant)" title="Heather Simpson (civil servant)">Heather Simpson</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hobson_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Hobson (New Zealand electorate)">Hobson</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Ross_Meurant" title="Ross Meurant">Ross Meurant</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">2,697 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#33CC66"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Frank_Grover" title="Frank Grover">Frank Grover</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Horowhenua_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Horowhenua (New Zealand electorate)">Horowhenua</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Hamish_Hancock" title="Hamish Hancock">Hamish Hancock</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Judy_Keall" title="Judy Keall">Judy Keall</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">2,347 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Hamish_Hancock" title="Hamish Hancock">Hamish Hancock</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Howick_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Howick (New Zealand electorate)">Howick</a> </td> <td colspan="2" data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">New electorate </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold;background:#CCDDFF;"><a href="/wiki/Trevor_Rogers_(politician)" title="Trevor Rogers (politician)">Trevor Rogers</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">5,754 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">James Clarke </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Invercargill (New Zealand electorate)">Invercargill</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Rob_Munro_(politician)" title="Rob Munro (politician)">Rob Munro</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Mark_Peck" title="Mark Peck">Mark Peck</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">1,174 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Rob_Munro_(politician)" title="Rob Munro (politician)">Rob Munro</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Island_Bay_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Island Bay (New Zealand electorate)">Island Bay</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Tennet" title="Elizabeth Tennet">Elizabeth Tennet</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">5,422 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Chris Shields </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kaimai_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Kaimai (New Zealand electorate)">Kaimai</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Anderson_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="Robert Anderson (New Zealand politician)">Robert Anderson</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">372 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#000000"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Peter_Brown_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="Peter Brown (New Zealand politician)">Peter Brown</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kaipara_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Kaipara (New Zealand electorate)">Kaipara</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Lockwood_Smith" title="Lockwood Smith">Lockwood Smith</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">2,958 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#33CC66"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Rosalie Steward </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kapiti_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Kapiti (New Zealand electorate)">Kapiti</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Roger_Sowry" title="Roger Sowry">Roger Sowry</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">1,038 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Rob Calder </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/King_Country_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="King Country (New Zealand electorate)">King Country</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Jim_Bolger" title="Jim Bolger">Jim Bolger</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">4,506 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Murray Simpson </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Lyttelton_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Lyttelton (New Zealand electorate)">Lyttelton</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Gail_McIntosh" title="Gail McIntosh">Gail McIntosh</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Ruth_Dyson" title="Ruth Dyson">Ruth Dyson</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">677 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/David_Carter_(politician)" title="David Carter (politician)">David Carter</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Manawatu_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Manawatu (New Zealand electorate)">Manawatu</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#33CC66"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Hamish_MacIntyre" title="Hamish MacIntyre">Hamish MacIntyre</a><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>nb 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Jill_White" title="Jill White">Jill White</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">164 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Gray Baldwin </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ngere_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Māngere (New Zealand electorate)">Māngere</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/David_Lange" title="David Lange">David Lange</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">5,958 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#33CC66"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Len Richards </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Manurewa_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Manurewa (New Zealand electorate)">Manurewa</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/George_Hawkins_(politician)" title="George Hawkins (politician)">George Hawkins</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">4,014 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Mark Chalmers </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Marlborough_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Marlborough (New Zealand electorate)">Marlborough</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Doug_Kidd" title="Doug Kidd">Doug Kidd</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">2,548 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Ron Howard </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Matakana_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Matakana (New Zealand electorate)">Matakana</a> </td> <td colspan="2" data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">New electorate </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold;background:#CCDDFF;"><a href="/wiki/Graeme_Lee_(politician)" title="Graeme Lee (politician)">Graeme Lee</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">893 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#33CC66"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">John Neill </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Matamata_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Matamata (New Zealand electorate)">Matamata</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/John_Luxton" title="John Luxton">John Luxton</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">5,977 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#33CC66"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">John Pemberton </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Miramar_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Miramar (New Zealand electorate)">Miramar</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Graeme_Reeves" title="Graeme Reeves">Graeme Reeves</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Annette_King" title="Annette King">Annette King</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">2,595 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Graeme_Reeves" title="Graeme Reeves">Graeme Reeves</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mount_Albert_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Mount Albert (New Zealand electorate)">Mount Albert</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Helen_Clark" title="Helen Clark">Helen Clark</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">4,656 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Vanessa Brown </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Napier_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Napier (New Zealand electorate)">Napier</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Geoff_Braybrooke" title="Geoff Braybrooke">Geoff Braybrooke</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">4,926 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Colleen Pritchard </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Nelson_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Nelson (New Zealand electorate)">Nelson</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/John_Blincoe" title="John Blincoe">John Blincoe</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">2,007 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Margaret Emerre </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/New_Lynn_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="New Lynn (New Zealand electorate)">New Lynn</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Hunt_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="Jonathan Hunt (New Zealand politician)">Jonathan Hunt</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">1,598 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#33CC66"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Cliff Robinson </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/New_Plymouth_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="New Plymouth (New Zealand electorate)">New Plymouth</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/John_Armstrong_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="John Armstrong (New Zealand politician)">John Armstrong</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Harry_Duynhoven" title="Harry Duynhoven">Harry Duynhoven</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">3,126 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/John_Armstrong_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="John Armstrong (New Zealand politician)">John Armstrong</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/North_Shore_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="North Shore (New Zealand electorate)">North Shore</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Bruce_Cliffe" title="Bruce Cliffe">Bruce Cliffe</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">4,723 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#33CC66"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Joel Cayford </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Onehunga_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Onehunga (New Zealand electorate)">Onehunga</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Grahame_Thorne" title="Grahame Thorne">Grahame Thorne</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Northey" title="Richard Northey">Richard Northey</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">407 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Grahame_Thorne" title="Grahame Thorne">Grahame Thorne</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Onslow_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Onslow (New Zealand electorate)">Onslow</a> </td> <td colspan="2" data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">New electorate </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold;background:#FFBAA8;"><a href="/wiki/Peter_Dunne" title="Peter Dunne">Peter Dunne</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">1,065 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">George Mathew </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Otago_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Otago (New Zealand electorate)">Otago</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Warren_Cooper" title="Warren Cooper">Warren Cooper</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">3,220 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Janet Yiakmis </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Otara_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Otara (New Zealand electorate)">Otara</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Trevor_Rogers_(politician)" title="Trevor Rogers (politician)">Trevor Rogers</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Taito_Phillip_Field" title="Taito Phillip Field">Taito Phillip Field</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">5,981 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Shane_Frith" title="Shane Frith">Shane Frith</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Pahiatua_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Pahiatua (New Zealand electorate)">Pahiatua</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/John_Falloon" title="John Falloon">John Falloon</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">5,178 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Margo Martindale </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Pakuranga_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Pakuranga (New Zealand electorate)">Pakuranga</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Williamson" title="Maurice Williamson">Maurice Williamson</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">5,460 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Heather MacKay </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Palmerston_North_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Palmerston North (New Zealand electorate)">Palmerston North</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Steve_Maharey" title="Steve Maharey">Steve Maharey</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">3,764 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Barbara Stones </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Panmure_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Panmure (New Zealand electorate)">Panmure</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Judith_Tizard" title="Judith Tizard">Judith Tizard</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">3,277 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#33CC66"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Bruce_Jesson" title="Bruce Jesson">Bruce Jesson</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Papakura_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Papakura (New Zealand electorate)">Papakura</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/John_Robertson_(New_Zealand_politician,_born_1951)" title="John Robertson (New Zealand politician, born 1951)">John Robertson</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">484 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Nancy Hawks </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Papatoetoe_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Papatoetoe (New Zealand electorate)">Papatoetoe</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Ross_Robertson" title="Ross Robertson">Ross Robertson</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">5,977 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Jim Wild </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Pencarrow_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Pencarrow (New Zealand electorate)">Pencarrow</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Sonja_Davies" title="Sonja Davies">Sonja Davies</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Trevor_Mallard" title="Trevor Mallard">Trevor Mallard</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">2,641 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Rosemarie Thomas </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Porirua_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Porirua (New Zealand electorate)">Porirua</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Graham_Kelly_(politician)" title="Graham Kelly (politician)">Graham Kelly</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">6,713 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Lagi Sipeli </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Raglan_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Raglan (New Zealand electorate)">Raglan</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Simon_Upton" title="Simon Upton">Simon Upton</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">4,540 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Bill Harris </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Rakaia_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Rakaia (New Zealand electorate)">Rakaia</a> </td> <td colspan="2" data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">New electorate </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold;background:#CCDDFF;"><a href="/wiki/Jenny_Shipley" title="Jenny Shipley">Jenny Shipley</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">4,540 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">John Howie </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Rangiora_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Rangiora (New Zealand electorate)">Rangiora</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Jim_Gerard" title="Jim Gerard">Jim Gerard</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">4,469 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Maureen Little </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Rangit%C4%ABkei_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Rangitīkei (New Zealand electorate)">Rangitīkei</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Denis_Marshall_(politician)" title="Denis Marshall (politician)">Denis Marshall</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">3,422 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#33CC66"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Bob Peck </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Remuera_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Remuera (New Zealand electorate)">Remuera</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Doug_Graham" title="Doug Graham">Doug Graham</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">8,619 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#33CC66"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Mary Tierney </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Roskill_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Roskill (New Zealand electorate)">Roskill</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#000000"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Myles" title="Gilbert Myles">Gilbert Myles</a><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>nb 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Phil_Goff" title="Phil Goff">Phil Goff</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">2,205 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Allan Spence </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Rotorua_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Rotorua (New Zealand electorate)">Rotorua</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Paul_East" title="Paul East">Paul East</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">429 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#33CC66"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Keith Ridings </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Selwyn_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Selwyn (New Zealand electorate)">Selwyn</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Ruth_Richardson" title="Ruth Richardson">Ruth Richardson</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">888 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Ron_Mark" title="Ron Mark">Ron Mark</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/St_Albans_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="St Albans (New Zealand electorate)">St Albans</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/David_Caygill" title="David Caygill">David Caygill</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">3,425 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Raewyn Dawson </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/St_Kilda_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="St Kilda (New Zealand electorate)">St Kilda</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Cullen_(politician)" title="Michael Cullen (politician)">Michael Cullen</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">5,071 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#33CC66"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Leah McBey </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sydenham_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Sydenham (New Zealand electorate)">Sydenham</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#33CC66"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#EEFFBB"><a href="/wiki/Jim_Anderton" title="Jim Anderton">Jim Anderton</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">7,476 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Greg Coyle </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/T%C4%81maki_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Tāmaki (New Zealand electorate)">Tāmaki</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Clem_Simich" title="Clem Simich">Clem Simich</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">7,951 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#33CC66"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Richard Green </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Taranaki_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Taranaki (New Zealand electorate)">Taranaki</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Roger_Maxwell_(politician)" title="Roger Maxwell (politician)">Roger Maxwell</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">4,871 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Stephen Wood </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Tarawera_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Tarawera (New Zealand electorate)">Tarawera</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Max_Bradford" title="Max Bradford">Max Bradford</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">4,155 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Gordon Dickson </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Tasman_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Tasman (New Zealand electorate)">Tasman</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Nick_Smith_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="Nick Smith (New Zealand politician)">Nick Smith</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">4,059 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Geoff Rowling </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Tauranga_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Tauranga (New Zealand electorate)">Tauranga</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#DCDCDC"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Winston_Peters" title="Winston Peters">Winston Peters</a><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>nb 3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#000000"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCCCCC"><a href="/wiki/Winston_Peters" title="Winston Peters">Winston Peters</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">7,924 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/John_Cronin_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="John Cronin (New Zealand politician)">John Cronin</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Te_Atat%C5%AB_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Te Atatū (New Zealand electorate)">Te Atatū</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Brian_Neeson" title="Brian Neeson">Brian Neeson</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Chris_Carter_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="Chris Carter (New Zealand politician)">Chris Carter</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">1,388 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#33CC66"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Laila_Harr%C3%A9" title="Laila Harré">Laila Harré</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Timaru_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Timaru (New Zealand electorate)">Timaru</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Maurice_McTigue" title="Maurice McTigue">Maurice McTigue</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Jim_Sutton" title="Jim Sutton">Jim Sutton</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">2,940 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Maurice_McTigue" title="Maurice McTigue">Maurice McTigue</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Titirangi_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Titirangi (New Zealand electorate)">Titirangi</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Marie_Hasler" title="Marie Hasler">Marie Hasler</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Suzanne_Sinclair_(New_Zealand_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Suzanne Sinclair (New Zealand politician)">Suzanne Sinclair</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">340 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Marie_Hasler" title="Marie Hasler">Marie Hasler</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Tongariro_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Tongariro (New Zealand electorate)">Tongariro</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Ian_Peters" title="Ian Peters">Ian Peters</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Mark_Burton_(politician)" title="Mark Burton (politician)">Mark Burton</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">1,951 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Ian_Peters" title="Ian Peters">Ian Peters</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Waikaremoana_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Waikaremoana (New Zealand electorate)">Waikaremoana</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Roger_McClay" title="Roger McClay">Roger McClay</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">4,021 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Gregg Sheehan </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Waikato_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Waikato (New Zealand electorate)">Waikato</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Rob_Storey" title="Rob Storey">Rob Storey</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">2,286 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Susan Moore </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Waipa_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Waipa (New Zealand electorate)">Waipa</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Katherine_O%27Regan" title="Katherine O'Regan">Katherine O'Regan</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">3,730 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#33CC66"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">John Kilbride </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Wairarapa_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Wairarapa (New Zealand electorate)">Wairarapa</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Wyatt_Creech" title="Wyatt Creech">Wyatt Creech</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">2,229 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Peter Teahan </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Waitakere_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Waitakere (New Zealand electorate)">Waitakere</a> </td> <td colspan="2" data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">New electorate </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold;background:#CCDDFF;"><a href="/wiki/Brian_Neeson" title="Brian Neeson">Brian Neeson</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">3,180 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Barbara Hutchinson </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Waitaki_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Waitaki (New Zealand electorate)">Waitaki</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Alec_Neill" title="Alec Neill">Alec Neill</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">53 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Bruce Albiston<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>nb 4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Waitotara_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Waitotara (New Zealand electorate)">Waitotara</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Peter_Gresham" title="Peter Gresham">Peter Gresham</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">4,545 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">K F Lehmstedt </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Wallace_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Wallace (New Zealand electorate)">Wallace</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Bill_English" title="Bill English">Bill English</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">5,578 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Lesley_Soper" title="Lesley Soper">Lesley Soper</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Wanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wanganui (New Zealand electorate)">Wanganui</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#DCDCDC"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Cam_Campion" title="Cam Campion">Cam Campion</a><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>nb 5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Jill_Pettis" title="Jill Pettis">Jill Pettis</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">3,371 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Gael Donoghue </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Wellington-Karori_(New_Zealand_electorate)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wellington-Karori (New Zealand electorate)">Wellington-Karori</a> </td> <td colspan="2" data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">New electorate </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold;background:#CCDDFF;"><a href="/wiki/Pauline_Gardiner" title="Pauline Gardiner">Pauline Gardiner</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">480 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Chris_Laidlaw" title="Chris Laidlaw">Chris Laidlaw</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/West_Coast_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="West Coast (New Zealand electorate)">West Coast</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Moir" title="Margaret Moir">Margaret Moir</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Damien_O%27Connor" title="Damien O'Connor">Damien O'Connor</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">2,920 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Moir" title="Margaret Moir">Margaret Moir</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Western_Hutt_(New_Zealand_electorate)" class="mw-redirect" title="Western Hutt (New Zealand electorate)">Western Hutt</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Joy_Quigley" title="Joy Quigley">Joy Quigley</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">1,542 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Vern Walsh </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Whangarei_(New_Zealand_electorate)" class="mw-redirect" title="Whangarei (New Zealand electorate)">Whangarei</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/John_Banks_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="John Banks (New Zealand politician)">John Banks</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">1,587 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Mark Furey </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Yaldhurst_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Yaldhurst (New Zealand electorate)">Yaldhurst</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Austin" title="Margaret Austin">Margaret Austin</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">2,997 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#00529F"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">David Watson </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="8" style="background-color:#FFDEAD"><b><a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_electorates" title="Māori electorates">Māori electorates</a></b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Maori_(New_Zealand_electorate)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Maori (New Zealand electorate)">Eastern Maori</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Peter_Tapsell_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="Peter Tapsell (New Zealand politician)">Peter Tapsell</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">6,666 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#33CC66"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Alamein_Kopu" title="Alamein Kopu">Alamein Kopu</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Northern_Maori_(New_Zealand_electorate)" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern Maori (New Zealand electorate)">Northern Maori</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Bruce_Gregory_(politician)" title="Bruce Gregory (politician)">Bruce Gregory</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#000000"> </td> <td style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#CCCCCC"><a href="/wiki/Tau_Henare" title="Tau Henare">Tau Henare</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">416 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td style="text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Bruce_Gregory_(politician)" title="Bruce Gregory (politician)">Bruce Gregory</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Southern_Maori_(New_Zealand_electorate)" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern Maori (New Zealand electorate)">Southern Maori</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Whetu_Tirikatene-Sullivan" title="Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan">Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">6,340 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#000000"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Jules Parkinson </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Western_Maori_(New_Zealand_electorate)" class="mw-redirect" title="Western Maori (New Zealand electorate)">Western Maori</a> </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#D82A20"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background:#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Koro_W%C4%93tere" title="Koro Wētere">Koro Wētere</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">3,777 </td> <td style="width:5px; background:#000000"> </td> <td style="text-align:center">Ricky Taiaroa </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Table footnotes: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Hamish_MacIntyre" title="Hamish MacIntyre">Hamish MacIntyre</a> left National in 1992, joining the Liberal Party which became part of the Alliance</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Myles" title="Gilbert Myles">Gilbert Myles</a> left National in 1991, becoming Independent, then joining the Liberal Party, which became part of the Alliance, finally New Zealand First in 1992–93</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Winston_Peters" title="Winston Peters">Winston Peters</a> had been an <a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> since the <a href="/wiki/1993_Tauranga_by-election" title="1993 Tauranga by-election">1993 by-election</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Albiston was first on election night for Waitaki, but lost when special votes were included</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Campion became an Independent on 3 March 1993</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Summary_of_changes">Summary of changes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1993_New_Zealand_general_election&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Summary of changes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Based on the <a href="/wiki/1991_New_Zealand_census" class="mw-redirect" title="1991 New Zealand census">1991 New Zealand census</a>, an electoral redistribution was carried out; the last one had been carried out in 1987 based on the previous census in 1986.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcRobie1989127_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcRobie1989127-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This resulted in the abolition of nine electorates, and the creation of eleven new electorates. Through an amendment in the Electoral Act in 1965, the number of electorates in the <a href="/wiki/South_Island" title="South Island">South Island</a> was fixed at 25, so the new electorates increased the number of the North Island electorates by two.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcRobie1989111_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcRobie1989111-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the South Island, one electorate was abolished (<a href="/wiki/Ashburton_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Ashburton (New Zealand electorate)">Ashburton</a>), and one electorate was recreated (<a href="/wiki/Rakaia_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Rakaia (New Zealand electorate)">Rakaia</a>). In the North Island, five electorates were newly created (<a href="/wiki/Eastern_Bay_of_Plenty_(New_Zealand_electorate)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Bay of Plenty (New Zealand electorate)">Eastern Bay of Plenty</a>, <a href="/wiki/Far_North_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Far North (New Zealand electorate)">Far North</a>, <a href="/wiki/Howick_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Howick (New Zealand electorate)">Howick</a>, <a href="/wiki/Matakana_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Matakana (New Zealand electorate)">Matakana</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wellington-Karori_(New_Zealand_electorate)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wellington-Karori (New Zealand electorate)">Wellington-Karori</a>), five electorates were recreated (<a href="/wiki/Franklin_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Franklin (New Zealand electorate)">Franklin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hauraki_(New_Zealand_general_electorate)" title="Hauraki (New Zealand general electorate)">Hauraki</a>, <a href="/wiki/Henderson_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Henderson (New Zealand electorate)">Henderson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Onslow_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Onslow (New Zealand electorate)">Onslow</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Waitakere_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Waitakere (New Zealand electorate)">Waitakere</a>), and eight electorates were abolished (<a href="/wiki/Bay_of_Islands_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Bay of Islands (New Zealand electorate)">Bay of Islands</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clevedon_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Clevedon (New Zealand electorate)">Clevedon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Coromandel_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Coromandel (New Zealand electorate)">Coromandel</a>, <a href="/wiki/East_Cape_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="East Cape (New Zealand electorate)">East Cape</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maramarua_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Maramarua (New Zealand electorate)">Maramarua</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ohariu_(New_Zealand_electorate)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ohariu (New Zealand electorate)">Ohariu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wellington_Central_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Wellington Central (New Zealand electorate)">Wellington Central</a>, and <a href="/wiki/West_Auckland_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="West Auckland (New Zealand electorate)">West Auckland</a>). </p><p>In many cases an MP from an abolished seat stood for, and was elected to a new one that broadly covered their previous electorate. </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2">Abolished Electorate</th> <th colspan="2">MP relocated</th> <th>New Electorate </th></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Ashburton_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Ashburton (New Zealand electorate)">Ashburton</a> </td> <td>→ </td> <td bgcolor="#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Jenny_Shipley" title="Jenny Shipley">Jenny Shipley</a> </td> <td>→ </td> <td bgcolor="#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Rakaia_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Rakaia (New Zealand electorate)">Rakaia</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Bay_of_Islands_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Bay of Islands (New Zealand electorate)">Bay of Islands</a> </td> <td>→ </td> <td bgcolor="#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/John_Carter_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="John Carter (New Zealand politician)">John Carter</a> </td> <td>→ </td> <td bgcolor="#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Far_North_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Far North (New Zealand electorate)">Far North</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Clevedon_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Clevedon (New Zealand electorate)">Clevedon</a> </td> <td>→ </td> <td bgcolor="#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Warren_Kyd" title="Warren Kyd">Warren Kyd</a> </td> <td>→ </td> <td bgcolor="#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Hauraki_(New_Zealand_general_electorate)" title="Hauraki (New Zealand general electorate)">Hauraki</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Coromandel_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Coromandel (New Zealand electorate)">Coromandel</a> </td> <td>→ </td> <td bgcolor="#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Graeme_Lee_(politician)" title="Graeme Lee (politician)">Graeme Lee</a> </td> <td>→ </td> <td bgcolor="#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Matakana_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Matakana (New Zealand electorate)">Matakana</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/East_Cape_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="East Cape (New Zealand electorate)">East Cape</a> </td> <td>→ </td> <td bgcolor="#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Tony_Ryall" title="Tony Ryall">Tony Ryall</a> </td> <td>→ </td> <td bgcolor="#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Bay_of_Plenty_(New_Zealand_electorate)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Bay of Plenty (New Zealand electorate)">Eastern Bay of Plenty</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Maramarua_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Maramarua (New Zealand electorate)">Maramarua</a> </td> <td>→ </td> <td bgcolor="#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Bill_Birch" title="Bill Birch">Bill Birch</a> </td> <td>→ </td> <td bgcolor="#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Franklin_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Franklin (New Zealand electorate)">Franklin</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Ohariu_(New_Zealand_electorate)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ohariu (New Zealand electorate)">Ohariu</a> </td> <td>→ </td> <td bgcolor="#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Peter_Dunne" title="Peter Dunne">Peter Dunne</a> </td> <td>→ </td> <td bgcolor="#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Onslow_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Onslow (New Zealand electorate)">Onslow</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/West_Auckland_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="West Auckland (New Zealand electorate)">West Auckland</a> </td> <td>→ </td> <td bgcolor="#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Jack_Elder_(politician)" title="Jack Elder (politician)">Jack Elder</a> </td> <td>→ </td> <td bgcolor="#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Henderson_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Henderson (New Zealand electorate)">Henderson</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="5">One MP from an abolished electorate failed to win a new electorate </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFBAA8" rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Wellington_Central_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Wellington Central (New Zealand electorate)">Wellington Central</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"> </td> <td bgcolor="#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Pauline_Gardiner" title="Pauline Gardiner">Pauline Gardiner</a> <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> </td> <td rowspan="2"> </td> <td bgcolor="#CCDDFF" rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Wellington-Karori_(New_Zealand_electorate)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wellington-Karori (New Zealand electorate)">Wellington-Karori</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFBAA8"><a href="/wiki/Chris_Laidlaw" title="Chris Laidlaw">Chris Laidlaw</a> <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="5">Due to boundary changes, two MPs moved to safer new electorates </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2">Marginal Electorate</th> <th colspan="2">MP relocated</th> <th>New Electorate </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Te_Atatu_(New_Zealand_electorate)" class="mw-redirect" title="Te Atatu (New Zealand electorate)">Te Atatu</a> </td> <td>→ </td> <td bgcolor="#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Brian_Neeson" title="Brian Neeson">Brian Neeson</a> </td> <td>→ </td> <td bgcolor="#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Waitakere_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Waitakere (New Zealand electorate)">Waitakere</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Otara_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Otara (New Zealand electorate)">Otara</a> </td> <td>→ </td> <td bgcolor="#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Trevor_Rogers_(politician)" title="Trevor Rogers (politician)">Trevor Rogers</a> </td> <td>→ </td> <td bgcolor="#CCDDFF"><a href="/wiki/Howick_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Howick (New Zealand electorate)">Howick</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>New electorates. </p> <ul><li><b>Eastern Bay of Plenty</b> – most of the abolished East Cape seat, plus part of Tarawera. Won by former East Cape MP <a href="/wiki/Tony_Ryall" title="Tony Ryall">Tony Ryall</a>.</li> <li><b>Far North</b> – most of the abolished Bay of Islands seat. Won by former Bay of Islands MP <a href="/wiki/John_Carter_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="John Carter (New Zealand politician)">John Carter</a>.</li> <li><b>Franklin</b> – part of the abolished Maramarua seat and part of Papakura. Won by former Maramarua MP <a href="/wiki/Bill_Birch" title="Bill Birch">Bill Birch</a>.</li> <li><b>Hauraki</b> – parts of the abolished Clevedon, Maramarua, and Coromandel seats. Won by former Clevedon MP <a href="/wiki/Warren_Kyd" title="Warren Kyd">Warren Kyd</a>.</li> <li><b>Henderson</b> – parts taken from the West Auckland, Te Atatu, and Titirangi electorates. Won by former West Auckland MP <a href="/wiki/Jack_Elder_(politician)" title="Jack Elder (politician)">Jack Elder</a> (Labour).</li> <li><b>Howick</b> – the eastern part of the Otara seat. Won by former Otara MP <a href="/wiki/Trevor_Rogers_(politician)" title="Trevor Rogers (politician)">Trevor Rogers</a> (National).</li> <li><b>Matakana</b> – part of the abolished Coromandel seat. Won by former Coromandel MP <a href="/wiki/Graeme_Lee_(politician)" title="Graeme Lee (politician)">Graeme Lee</a>.</li> <li><b>Onslow</b> – the core of the abolished Ohariu seat. Won by former Ohariu MP <a href="/wiki/Peter_Dunne" title="Peter Dunne">Peter Dunne</a> (Labour).</li> <li><b>Rakaia</b> – the abolished Ashburton seat, plus part of the Selwyn seat. Won by former Ashburton MP <a href="/wiki/Jenny_Shipley" title="Jenny Shipley">Jenny Shipley</a> (National).</li> <li><b>Waitakere</b> – chiefly, the abolished seat of West Auckland. Won by former Te Atatu MP <a href="/wiki/Brian_Neeson" title="Brian Neeson">Brian Neeson</a> (National).</li> <li><b>Wellington-Karori</b> – the abolished Wellington Central seat, plus part of the abolished Ohariu seat. Won by new National MP <a href="/wiki/Pauline_Gardiner" title="Pauline Gardiner">Pauline Gardiner</a>.</li></ul> <p>The seats of <b>Gisborne</b>, <b>Hamilton East</b>, <b>Hamilton West</b>, <b>Hastings</b>, <b>Horowhenua</b>, <b>Invercargill</b>, <b>Lyttelton</b>, <b>Manawatu</b>, <b>Miramar</b>, <b>New Plymouth</b>, <b>Onehunga</b>, <b>Otara</b>, <b>Roskill</b>, <b>Te Atatu</b>, <b>Timaru</b>, <b>Titirangi</b>, <b>Tongariro</b>, <b>Wanganui</b> and <b>West Coast</b> were won from the National Party by Labour challengers. Seventeen of these seats (Gisborne, Hamilton East, Hamilton West, Hastings, Horowhenua, Lyttelton, Manawatu, Miramar, New Plymouth, Onehunga, Otara, Roskill, Te Atatu, Titirangi, Tongariro, Wanganui & the West Coast) had been won by National from Labour in 1990, so were <i>one-term</i> National seats. </p> <ul><li>The seat of <b>Auckland Central</b> was won from the Labour Party by an Alliance challenger. The challenger was <a href="/wiki/Sandra_Lee-Vercoe" title="Sandra Lee-Vercoe">Sandra Lee</a> and the defeated incumbent was <a href="/wiki/Richard_Prebble" title="Richard Prebble">Richard Prebble</a>.</li> <li>The seat of <b>Northern Maori</b> was won from the Labour Party by a New Zealand First challenger. The challenger was <a href="/wiki/Tau_Henare" title="Tau Henare">Tau Henare</a> and the defeated incumbent was <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Gregory_(politician)" title="Bruce Gregory (politician)">Bruce Gregory</a>.</li> <li>The seat of <b>Awarua</b> passed from an incumbent National MP to a new National MP.</li> <li>The seat of <b>Pencarrow</b> passed from an incumbent Labour MP to a new Labour MP.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Post-election_events">Post-election events</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1993_New_Zealand_general_election&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Post-election events"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A number of <a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_New_Zealand" title="Local government in New Zealand">local by-elections</a> were required due to the resignation of incumbent local body politicians following their election to Parliament: </p> <ul><li>A <a href="/wiki/List_of_by-elections_to_the_Auckland_City_Council#1994_by-election,_Hauraki_Gulf_Islands_Ward" title="List of by-elections to the Auckland City Council">by-election</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Auckland_City_Council" title="Auckland City Council">Auckland City Council</a> was caused after Hauraki Gulf Islands Ward councillor <a href="/wiki/Sandra_Lee-Vercoe" title="Sandra Lee-Vercoe">Sandra Lee</a> resigned her seat after she was elected MP for <a href="/wiki/Auckland_Central_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Auckland Central (New Zealand electorate)">Auckland Central</a>, necessitating a by-election to fill the council vacancy. The by-election was won by Gordon Hodson.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1993_New_Zealand_general_election&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Alliance-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Alliance_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Alliance_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Alliance results compared with 1990 totals of <a href="/wiki/NewLabour_Party_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="NewLabour Party (New Zealand)">NewLabour Party</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Democratic_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand Democratic Party">Democratic Party</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mana_Motuhake_(political_party)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mana Motuhake (political party)">Mana Motuhake</a> and <a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand">Green Party</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://teara.govt.nz/en/graph/35700/results-of-the-1993-referendum-on-the-electoral-system">"Results of the 1993 referendum on the electoral system"</a>. <i>TEARA</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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