Tuesday, October 10, 2017
THE Electoral Commission has declared the official results for the 2017 General Election, following the counting of special votes.
The National Party now has 56 seats compared with 58 on election night, the Labour Party has 46 seats compared with 45 on election night and the Green Party has eight seats compared with seven on election night.
There are no changes to the number of seats held by New Zealand First and ACT New Zealand which remain at nine and one respectively.
All electorate candidates leading on election night have been confirmed as winning their seats. There were 2,630,173 votes cast – 47 percent of them cast in advance.
The turnout as a percentage of enrolled electors was 79.8 percent – 1.9 percent more than in 2014 and the highest turnout since 2005 (80.9 percent).