We're going to need a bigger boat. Preliminary results in the 2026 election, with an overhang here and an overhang there, ...

It’s Monday. The birds are singing. The streets are alive with hope as a Chris-lite or even Chrisless future swims into view.

No one has won. No one has conceded. The governing coalition holds 67 of 131 seats on the preliminary count, but nearly 400,000 special votes won't be counted until 27 November, and the arithmetic ...

And we also know from the Electoral Commission that there are approximately 399,365 special votes still to be counted, ...

Hayden Donnell is a senior writer for The Spinoff. He previously worked at RNZ, TVNZ and the New Zealand Herald, alongside ...

To help us better understand the results on election night, our interactive page let you switch between the real geographic ...

As of last night, National was holding 42 seats – five of those via the poltergeist that has haunted the 2026 election: the ...

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Te Pāti Māori has emerged from a turbulent year on track to win five of the seven Māori electorates, but the Greens have made ...

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We relive some of the weirdest moments from last night's election TV coverage.

On current numbers, the coalition parties have enough seats in parliament to govern on their own, but only just. Here's what ...