Results of the 2023 New Zealand general election

Map of the 2023 New Zealand general election, shaded by electorate. Māori electorates are in the bottom right.

This article summarises results of the 14 October 2023 New Zealand general election, including both party vote and electorate vote outcomes.

Release of results

Preliminary results were released gradually after polling booths closed at 19:00 (NZDT) on 14 October. The preliminary count only includes advance ordinary and election day ordinary votes; it does not include any special votes, which have a deadline ten days later (24 October). Special votes include votes from those who enrolled after the deadline of 10 September, those who voted outside their electorate (including all overseas votes), voters in hospital or prison, and those voters enrolled on the unpublished roll.

Party vote

Overall results

Party vote percentage

  National (38.06%)

  Labour (26.91%)

  Green (11.60%)

  ACT (8.64%)

  NZ First (6.08%)

  Māori (3.08%)

  Opportunities (2.22%)

  Loyal (1.20%)

  Other (2.21%)

Map of the plurality party vote in each electorate.

Map of party vote by Left/Right block split.

Summary of the 14 October 2023 election for the House of Representatives

Party		Party vote				Electorate vote sum				Total seats	+/-
		Votes	Of total (%)	Change (pp)	Seats	Votes	Of total (%)	Change (pp)	Seats
	National	1,085,851	38.08	12.51	5	1,192,251	43.47	9.34	43	48	16
	Labour	767,540	26.92	23.09	17	855,963	31.21	16.86	17	34	31
	Green	330,907	11.61	3.75	12	226,575	8.26	2.52	3	15	5
	ACT	246,473	8.64	1.06	9	149,507	5.45	1.99	2	11	1
	NZ First	173,553	6.09	3.49	8	76,676	2.80	1.73	0	8	8
	Te Pāti Māori	87,844	3.08	1.92	0	106,584	3.89	1.73	6	6	4
	Opportunities (TOP)	63,344	2.22	0.72	0	27,975	1.02	0.13	0	0
	NZ Loyal	34,478	1.20	new	0	32,240	1.18	new	0	0	new
	NewZeal	16,126	0.56	0.28	0	3,585	0.13	0.11	0	0
	Legalise Cannabis	13,025	0.45	0.00	0	12,566	0.46	0.17	0	0
	Freedoms NZ	9,586	0.33	0.08	0				0	0
	DemocracyNZ	6,786	0.23	new	0	12,060	0.44	new	0	0	new
	Animal Justice	5,018	0.17	new	0	5,829	0.21	new	0	0	new
	New Conservative	4,532	0.15	1.32	0	3,167	0.12	1.64	0	0
	Women's Rights	2,513	0.08	new	0	0	0.00	new	0	0	new
	Leighton Baker Party	2,105	0.07	new	0	2,623	0.10	new	0	0	new
	New Nation	1,530	0.05	new	0	433	0.02	new	0	0	new
	Unregistered parties
	Independent					34,277	1.25	0.87
Valid votes		2,851,211				2,742,677
Informal votes		16,267				40,353
Disallowed votes		16,633				59,043
Below electoral threshold
Total		2,884,111	100.00		51	2,842,073	100.00		71	122
Eligible voters and turnout		3,688,292	78.20	4.04		3,688,292	77.06	5.18

By electorate

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

Electorate	National	Labour	Green	ACT	NZ First	Māori	TOP	Loyal
Auckland Central	33.22	22.69	24.03	9.33	3.82	1.59	3.53	0.61
Banks Peninsula	31.96	26.63	19.70	7.91	5.36	0.78	4.84	0.78
Bay of Plenty	47.20	17.39	8.00	11.47	8.71	1.27	1.97	1.57
Botany	59.04	20.46	5.87	7.40	3.02	0.50	1.17	0.74
Christchurch Central	31.25	28.61	19.52	6.67	5.22	1.02	5.14	0.64
Christchurch East	28.71	34.37	14.53	7.14	6.85	1.06	3.43	1.03
Coromandel	43.09	19.67	7.83	11.92	10.44	0.77	1.09	3.37
Dunedin	22.71	30.96	26.93	5.79	5.64	1.44	4.26	0.95
East Coast	36.86	29.96	7.45	8.91	9.67	2.29	1.14	1.35
East Coast Bays	57.80	14.68	8.89	9.69	3.93	0.35	1.66	0.99
Epsom	51.69	14.67	13.59	12.44	2.61	0.74	3.22	0.30
Hamilton East	42.85	24.85	12.35	8.07	5.01	1.48	2.72	0.89
Hamilton West	41.37	26.44	9.97	8.77	6.22	1.84	2.50	0.83
Hutt South	34.05	32.47	15.51	5.75	5.20	1.34	3.34	0.75
Ilam	43.15	21.97	14.97	8.32	4.04	0.62	5.00	0.35
Invercargill	42.85	25.64	6.23	10.61	7.43	0.74	1.29	2.94
Kaikōura	41.21	20.78	7.83	14.09	9.11	0.51	1.68	2.03
Kaipara ki Mahurangi	47.78	17.02	9.60	12.11	6.67	0.68	1.84	1.76
Kelston	31.24	37.28	14.09	5.95	4.73	1.77	1.94	0.71
Mana	28.83	38.21	15.02	5.37	5.28	1.89	2.76	0.72
Māngere	19.25	61.40	7.85	2.12	3.31	2.14	0.93	0.32
Manurewa	29.41	52.17	5.93	2.69	3.46	2.11	0.60	0.46
Maungakiekie	41.61	27.31	13.83	7.98	3.84	0.94	2.65	0.44
Mount Albert	32.05	26.07	25.30	6.76	3.08	1.61	3.72	0.37
Mount Roskill	43.40	30.04	12.12	6.11	3.55	0.79	2.10	0.36
Napier	41.00	26.59	8.55	11.08	6.87	0.93	1.53	1.26
Nelson	32.45	29.32	14.41	10.37	6.12	0.80	2.48	1.50
New Lynn	37.31	26.90	16.74	7.77	4.93	1.23	2.20	1.11
New Plymouth	42.18	24.19	8.51	10.16	7.26	1.43	1.96	2.18
North Shore	50.92	17.70	11.73	10.98	3.88	0.50	2.55	0.51
Northcote	43.67	23.19	14.27	8.70	4.22	0.76	3.11	0.56
Northland	35.44	22.04	8.00	10.21	14.08	1.55	1.25	3.30
Ōhariu	34.60	29.04	20.10	5.88	3.36	1.21	4.39	0.26
Ōtaki	37.31	30.96	10.62	7.47	7.76	1.15	1.56	1.44
Pakuranga	58.74	16.65	7.20	9.89	3.80	0.50	1.44	0.64
Palmerston North	33.99	31.48	12.41	8.28	6.25	1.74	2.29	1.22
Panmure-Ōtāhuhu	26.55	52.70	8.55	3.62	3.29	1.35	1.21	0.41
Papakura	51.95	20.96	6.39	10.05	5.27	1.06	1.28	0.99
Port Waikato	48.96	18.67	5.86	12.05	7.25	0.92	1.16	1.29
Rangitata	44.90	26.35	5.81	10.09	7.44	0.39	1.29	1.45
Rangitīkei	41.23	21.79	7.42	13.70	9.13	1.40	1.53	1.51
Remutaka	30.49	38.34	12.14	5.93	5.85	1.22	2.75	0.63
Rongotai	21.33	31.35	32.06	3.94	3.31	2.36	4.21	0.30
Rotorua	41.60	24.23	7.84	9.62	7.70	2.31	1.73	1.68
Selwyn	49.39	18.15	8.95	12.15	5.43	0.48	2.70	0.89
Southland	48.43	16.49	8.77	13.64	5.69	0.48	2.04	2.45
Taieri	33.62	34.33	10.84	7.92	7.71	0.58	2.20	1.13
Takanini	52.98	28.13	5.73	5.54	3.19	1.11	0.84	0.34
Tāmaki	52.58	16.82	10.99	12.41	2.87	0.69	2.35	0.40
Taranaki-King Country	47.22	17.20	6.93	13.43	8.32	1.21	1.58	1.96
Taupō	45.52	22.08	6.32	11.31	8.00	1.29	1.47	2.19
Tauranga	46.11	18.27	8.98	10.66	8.95	1.05	2.23	1.12
Te Atatū	37.82	33.56	11.31	6.50	4.53	1.58	1.62	0.76
Tukituki	41.54	25.45	7.95	12.38	6.17	0.99	1.42	1.50
Upper Harbour	50.24	22.62	9.40	8.46	4.06	0.80	2.15	0.67
Waikato	50.41	17.64	5.51	12.27	7.69	0.96	1.72	1.67
Waimakariri	42.74	24.22	8.55	10.58	7.03	0.51	2.21	0.94
Wairarapa	38.94	27.36	8.23	10.64	8.18	1.02	1.58	2.30
Waitaki	43.43	21.57	9.04	12.33	6.99	0.41	1.97	2.03
Wellington Central	21.49	24.94	37.79	4.52	2.24	2.41	5.53	0.17
West Coast-Tasman	33.45	23.75	10.77	13.08	9.90	0.69	1.89	3.55
Whanganui	37.00	27.95	7.57	9.52	11.42	1.53	1.18	1.38
Whangaparāoa	53.21	15.27	7.60	11.93	6.26	0.47	1.63	1.34
Whangārei	37.93	22.37	9.40	9.12	13.09	1.36	1.68	2.09
Wigram	35.39	29.71	14.88	6.51	5.08	0.83	4.71	0.67
Hauraki-Waikato	5.02	44.68	7.35	1.14	3.78	33.01	0.72	1.20
Ikaroa-Rāwhiti	3.63	55.66	6.78	0.78	3.51	25.37	0.53	0.98
Tāmaki Makaurau	4.76	43.39	12.11	0.95	3.48	30.17	0.93	0.65
Te Tai Hauāuru	4.54	41.29	7.93	1.05	4.24	36.15	0.69	1.28
Te Tai Tokerau	5.43	44.44	9.59	1.08	6.73	27.01	0.74	1.41
Te Tai Tonga	8.73	36.99	16.38	2.34	5.54	22.94	1.95	1.68
Waiariki	3.40	43.72	5.55	0.75	3.76	38.32	0.54	0.82

Electorate results

Party affiliation of winning electorate candidates.

The table below shows the official results of the electorate vote in the 2023 general election:

Key

  Labour
  National
  Green
  ACT
  Te Pāti Māori
  NZ First
  Opportunities
  Vision NZ
  Legalise Cannabis
  Outdoors
  Independent

Electorate results of the 2023 New Zealand general election

Electorate	Incumbent		Winner		Majority	Runner up		Third place
Auckland Central		Chlöe Swarbrick			3,896		Mahesh Muralidhar		Oscar Sims
Banks Peninsula		Tracey McLellan		Vanessa Weenink	396		Tracey McLellan		Lan Pham
Bay of Plenty		Todd Muller		Tom Rutherford	15,405		Pare Taikato		Cameron Luxton
Botany		Christopher Luxon			16,337		Kharag Singh		Bo Burns
Christchurch Central		Duncan Webb			1,981		Dale Stephens		Kahurangi Carter
Christchurch East		Poto Williams		Reuben Davidson	2,397		Matt Stock		Sahra Ahmed
Coromandel		Scott Simpson			17,014		Beryl Riley		Pamela Grealey
Dunedin		David Clark		Rachel Brooking	7,980		Michael Woodhouse		Francisco Hernandez
East Coast		Kiri Allan		Dana Kirkpatrick	3,117		Tāmati Coffey		Craig Sinclair
East Coast Bays		Erica Stanford			20,353		Naisi Chen		Michael McCook
Epsom		David Seymour			8,142		Paul Goldsmith		Camilla Belich
Hamilton East		Jamie Strange		Ryan Hamilton	5,060		Georgie Dansey		Himanshu Parmar
Hamilton West		Tama Potaka			6,488		Myra Williamson		Benjamin Doyle
Hutt South		Ginny Andersen		Chris Bishop	1,332		Ginny Andersen		Neelu Jennings
Ilam		Sarah Pallett		Hamish Campbell	7,830		Raf Manji		Sarah Pallett
Invercargill		Penny Simmonds			9,874		Liz Craig		Scott Ian Donaldson
Kaikōura		Stuart Smith			11,412		Emma Dewhirst		Jamie Arbuckle
Kaipara ki Mahurangi		Chris Penk			19,459		Guy Wishart		Zephyr Brown
Kelston		Carmel Sepuloni			4,396		Ruby Schaumkel		Golriz Ghahraman
Mana		Barbara Edmonds			7,372		Frances Hughes		Gina Dao-Mclay
Māngere		William Sio		Lemauga Lydia Sosene	11,700		Rosemary Burke		Peter Sykes
Manurewa		Arena Williams			7,113		Siva Kilari		Rangi McLean
Maungakiekie		Priyanca Radhakrishnan		Greg Fleming	4,617		Priyanca Radhakrishnan		Sapna Samant
Mount Albert		Jacinda Ardern		Helen White	18		Melissa Lee		Ricardo Menéndez March
Mount Roskill		Michael Wood		Carlos Cheung	1,565		Michael Wood		Suveen Sanis Walgampola
Napier		Stuart Nash		Katie Nimon	8,870		Mark Hutchinson		Julienne Dickey
Nelson		Rachel Boyack			26		Blair Cameron		Jace Hobbs
New Lynn		Deborah Russell		Paulo Garcia	1,013		Deborah Russell		Steve Abel
New Plymouth		Glen Bennett		David MacLeod	6,991		Glen Bennett		Bruce McGechan
North Shore		Simon Watts			16,330		George Hampton		Pat Baskett
Northcote		Shanan Halbert		Dan Bidois	9,270		Shanan Halbert		Andrew Shaw
Northland		Willow-Jean Prime		Grant McCallum	6,087		Willow-Jean Prime		Shane Jones
Ōhāriu		Greg O'Connor			1,260		Nicola Willis		Stephanie Rodgers
Ōtaki		Terisa Ngobi		Tim Costley	6,271		Terisa Ngobi		Ali Muhammad
Pakuranga		Simeon Brown			18,710		Nerissa Henry		Parmjeet Parmar
Palmerston North		Tangi Utikere			3,087		Ankit Bansal		Teanau Tuiono
Panmure-Ōtāhuhu		Jenny Salesa			7,970		Navtej Randhawa		Efeso Collins
Papakura		Judith Collins			13,459		Anahila Kanongata'a-Suisuiki		Mike McCormack
Port Waikato	Electorate vote cancelled as a result of candidate death
Rangitata		Jo Luxton		James Meager	10,846		Jo Luxton		Robert Ballantyne
Rangitīkei		Ian McKelvie		Suze Redmayne	9,785		Zulfiqar Butt		Andrew Hoggard
Remutaka		Chris Hipkins			8,859		Emma Chatterton		Chris Norton
Rongotai		Paul Eagle		Julie Anne Genter	2,717		Fleur Fitzsimons		Karunā Muthu
Rotorua		Todd McClay			8,923		Ben Sandford		Merepeka Raukawa-Tait
Selwyn		Nicola Grigg			19,782		Luke Jones		Ben Harvey
Southland		Joseph Mooney			17,211		Simon McCallum		Dave Kennedy
Taieri		Ingrid Leary			1,443		Matthew French		Scott Willis
Takanini		Neru Leavasa		Rima Nakhle	8,775		Neru Leavasa		Rae Ah Chee
Tāmaki		Simon O'Connor		Brooke van Velden	4,158		Simon O'Connor		Fesaitu Solomone
Taranaki-King Country		Barbara Kuriger			14,355		Angela Roberts		Bill Burr
Taupō		Louise Upston			16,505		Aladdin Al-Bustanji		George O'Connor-Patena
Tauranga		Sam Uffindell			9,370		Jan Tinetti		Christine Young
Te Atatū		Phil Twyford			131		Angee Nicholas		Zooey Neumann
Tukituki		Anna Lorck		Catherine Wedd	10,118		Anna Lorck		Nick Ratcliffe
Upper Harbour		Vanushi Walters		Cameron Brewer	11,192		Vanushi Walters		Thea Doyle
Waikato		Tim van de Molen			18,046		Jamie Toko		Stuart Husband
Waimakariri		Matt Doocey			13,010		Dan Rosewarne		Ross Eric Campbell
Wairarapa		Kieran McAnulty		Mike Butterick	2,816		Kieran McAnulty		Simon Francis Casey
Waitaki		Jacqui Dean		Miles Anderson	12,151		Ethan Reille		Pleasance Hansen
Wellington Central		Grant Robertson		Tamatha Paul	6,066		Ibrahim Omer		Scott Sheeran
West Coast-Tasman		Damien O'Connor		Maureen Pugh	1,017		Damien O'Connor		Patrick Sean Phelps
Whanganui		Steph Lewis		Carl Bates	5,417		Steph Lewis		William Arnold
Whangaparāoa		Mark Mitchell			23,376		Estefania Muller Pallarès		Lorraine Newman
Whangārei		Emily Henderson		Shane Reti	11,424		Angie Warren-Clark		Gavin Benney
Wigram		Megan Woods			1,187		Tracy Summerfield		Richard Wesley
Māori electorates
Hauraki-Waikato		Nanaia Mahuta		Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke	2,911		Nanaia Mahuta		Donna Pokere-Phillips
Ikaroa-Rāwhiti		Meka Whaitiri		Cushla Tangaere-Manuel	2,843		Meka Whaitiri		Ata Tuhakaraina
Tāmaki Makaurau		Peeni Henare		Takutai Moana Kemp	42		Peeni Henare		Darleen Tana
Te Tai Hauāuru		Adrian Rurawhe		Debbie Ngarewa-Packer	9,222		Soraya Peke-Mason		Harete Hipango
Te Tai Tokerau		Kelvin Davis		Mariameno Kapa-Kingi	517		Kelvin Davis		Hūhana Lyndon
Te Tai Tonga		Rino Tirikatene		Tākuta Ferris	2,824		Rino Tirikatene		Rebecca Robin
Waiariki		Rawiri Waititi			15,891		Toni Boynton		Charles Tiki Hunia

List results

Further information: Party lists in the 2023 New Zealand general election

The following list candidates are presumed elected based on the preliminary results:

National	Labour	Green	ACT	NZ First
Nicola Willis (2) Paul Goldsmith (5) Melissa Lee (13) Gerry Brownlee (14) Andrew Bayly (15)	Kelvin Davis (2) Grant Robertson (4) Jan Tinetti (6) Ayesha Verrall (7) Willie Jackson (8) Willow-Jean Prime (9) Damien O'Connor (10) Adrian Rurawhe (11) David Parker (13) Peeni Henare (14) Priyanca Radhakrishnan (15) Kieran McAnulty (16) Ginny Andersen (17) Jo Luxton (19) Rino Tirikatene (21) Deborah Russell (22) Camilla Belich (26)	Marama Davidson (1) James Shaw (2) Teanau Tuiono (5) Lan Pham (6) Golriz Ghahraman (7) Ricardo Menéndez March (8) Steve Abel (9) Hūhana Lyndon (10) Efeso Collins (11) Scott Willis (12) Darleen Tana (13) Kahurangi Carter (14)	Nicole McKee (3) Todd Stephenson (4) Andrew Hoggard (5) Karen Chhour (6) Mark Cameron (7) Simon Court (8) Parmjeet Parmar (9) Laura Trask (10) Cameron Luxton (11)	Winston Peters (1) Shane Jones (2) Casey Costello (3) Mark Patterson (4) Jenny Marcroft (5) Jamie Arbuckle (6) Andy Foster (7) Tanya Unkovich (8)

MP changes

The following MP changes:

Party		New or returning MPs	Resigned or retired MPs	Defeated MPs	MPs switching seat type
	National	Suze Redmayne Katie Nimon Catherine Wedd Paulo Garcia Vanessa Weenink Rima Nakhle Dana Kirkpatrick Carl Bates Carlos Cheung Miles Anderson Dan Bidois Mike Butterick Cameron Brewer Hamish Campbell Tim Costley Greg Fleming Ryan Hamilton David MacLeod Grant McCallum James Meager Tom Rutherford	Jacqui Dean David Bennett Ian McKelvie Todd Muller	Harete Hipango Simon O'Connor Michael Woodhouse	Chris Bishop (to electorate) Shane Reti (to electorate) Andrew Bayly (to list) Maureen Pugh (to electorate)
	Labour	Reuben Davidson Cushla Tangaere-Manuel	David Clark Paul Eagle Marja Lubeck William Sio Jamie Strange Poto Williams Jacinda Ardern Emily Henderson Stuart Nash Kiri Allan Andrew Little	Tracey McLellan Shanan Halbert Glen Bennett Vanushi Walters Dan Rosewarne Naisi Chen Anahila Kanongata'a-Suisuiki Angela Roberts Tāmati Coffey Ibrahim Omer Neru Leavasa Anna Lorck Angie Warren-Clark Liz Craig Michael Wood Terisa Ngobi Steph Lewis Sarah Pallett Nanaia Mahuta Soraya Peke-Mason	Grant Robertson (to list) Willow-Jean Prime (to list) Damien O'Connor (to list) Adrian Rurawhe (to list) Priyanca Radhakrishnan (to list) Kieran McAnulty (to list) Ginny Andersen (to list) Jo Luxton (to list) Rino Tirikatene (to list) Deborah Russell (to list) Rachel Brooking (to electorate) Helen White (to electorate) Lemauga Lydia Sosene (to electorate)
	Green	Lan Pham Steve Abel Hūhana Lyndon Efeso Collins Scott Willis Darleen Tana Kahurangi Carter Tamatha Paul	Jan Logie Eugenie Sage		Julie Anne Genter (to electorate)
	ACT	Todd Stephenson Andrew Hoggard Parmjeet Parmar Laura Trask Cameron Luxton	Damien Smith James McDowall	Toni Severin Chris Baillie	Brooke van Velden (to electorate)
	NZ First	Winston Peters Shane Jones Casey Costello Mark Patterson Jenny Marcroft Jamie Arbuckle Andy Foster Tanya Unkovich
	Te Pāti Māori	Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke Tākuta Ferris Takutai Moana Kemp Mariameno Kapa-Kingi		Meka Whaitiri	Debbie Ngarewa-Packer (to electorate)
	Independent		Elizabeth Kerekere

Maps

Results by electorate

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  Electorate vote by party
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  Electorate vote by bloc
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  Party vote by party
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  Party gaining or holding each electorate

Other diagrams

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  Electorate vote by bloc (equal-area map)