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47-761: In September 2011 it applied to register its logo, which is a five-point star, with the Electoral Commission. The application was declined on the grounds that, in the opinion of the Electoral Commission, the logo could mislead voters into believing that the party was backed by the Rātana Church. The party stood two electorate candidates in the 2011 election under the label "Nga Iwi" — Te Ariki Karamaene in Hauraki-Waikato and Jennifer Waitai-Rapana in Te Tai Hauāuru. It did not stand any candidates at

94-443: A 45-vote majority, increasing to 47 votes on a judicial recount . Despite losing their electorate seats, Chris Auchinvole and Clayton Cosgrove were re-elected into parliament via the party list. On election night, Waitakere was won by incumbent National MP Paula Bennett with a 349-vote majority over Labour's Carmel Sepuloni . On official counts, it swung to Sepuloni with a majority of 11 votes, and Bennett subsequently requested

141-444: A by-election under his newly formed Mana Party . Two MPs resigned from Parliament before the end of the session, John Carter of National and Chris Carter, but as they resigned within 6 months of an election, their seats remained vacant. At the dissolution of the 49th parliament on 20 October 2011, National held 57 seats, Labour 42 seats, Green 9 seats, ACT 5 seats, Māori 4 seats, and Progressive, United Future and Mana one each. At

188-545: A judicial recount, and on the recount, the seat swung back to Bennett with a majority of nine votes. Bennett was declared elected, and Sepuloni was not returned via the party list due to her list ranking, being replaced in the Labour caucus with Raymond Huo . Five electorates returned with the winner having a majority of less than one thousand – Waitakere (9), Christchurch Central (47), Waimakariri (642), Auckland Central (717) and Tāmaki Makaurau (936). The table below shows

235-670: A majority of three-quarters of all votes cast in Parliament, or by a referendum. Section 268 of the Electoral Act 1993 itself is not entrenched, which means that Parliament could repeal the section and then amend section 17 of the Act. Thus, the provision is said to only be "singly entrenched". Some academics, including Sir Geoffrey Palmer , argue that the whole of the Constitution Act should be entrenched. The Act replaced

282-678: A party gets is determined by its share of the nationwide party vote, means aside from normal polling bias and error, opinion polling in New Zealand is fairly accurate in predicting the outcome of an election compared with other countries. Opinion polls were undertaken periodically since the 2008 election by MediaWorks New Zealand ( 3 News Reid Research), The New Zealand Herald (Herald Digipoll), Roy Morgan Research , and Television New Zealand ( One News Colmar Brunton ), with polls having also being conducted by Fairfax Media (Fairfax Media Research International) since July 2011. The graph on

329-515: A third of the party vote it received in 2008, reducing from five seats to one. The Māori Party was reduced from five seats to three, as the party vote split between the Māori Party and former Māori Party MP Hone Harawira 's Mana Party . United Future lost party votes, but retained their one seat in Parliament. Following the election, National reentered into confidence and supply agreements with ACT and United Future on 5 December 2011, and with

376-483: Is an Act of the New Zealand Parliament that forms a major part of the constitution of New Zealand . It lays down the framework defining fundamental political principles of governance, and establishes the powers of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of state. It outlines the roles and duties of the monarch , the governor-general , ministers and judges. The Act repealed and replaced

423-464: The 2008 election , the following seats were won by a majority of less than 1000 votes: Nineteen MPs, including all five ACT MPs and the sole Progressive MP, intended to retire at the end of the 49th Parliament. One of the ACT MPs, John Boscawen, contested Tāmaki , but did not expect to win and was not on the party list. National MP Allan Peachey died three weeks before the election. Electorates in

470-428: The 2014 election . This article about a New Zealand political party is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . New Zealand general election, 2011 John Key National John Key National The 2011 New Zealand general election took place on Saturday 26 November 2011 to determine the membership of the 50th New Zealand Parliament . One hundred and twenty-one MPs were elected to

517-748: The Communist League Manukau East and Mount Roskill, the Nga Iwi Morehu Movement contested Hauraki-Waikato and Te Tai Hauauru, the Pirate Party contested Hamilton East and Wellington Central, the Sovereignty Party contested Clutha-Southland and Te Tai Hauauru, Economic Euthenics contested Wigram, New Economics contested Wellington Central, Restore All Things In Christ contested Dunedin South, and

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564-712: The New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 and the Statute of Westminster , and removed the ability of the British Parliament to pass laws for New Zealand with the consent of the New Zealand Parliament. After the 1984 election there was an awkward transfer of power from the outgoing Third National government to the new Fourth Labour government in the midst of a financial crisis. Outgoing Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon

611-592: The New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 , repealed the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1947 and removed the ability of the United Kingdom to pass laws for New Zealand with the consent of New Zealand's Parliament. Unlike Canada and Australia, New Zealand was able to patriate its constitution without British approval. The British Parliament had already passed the New Zealand Constitution Amendment Act 1947 , as requested by

658-580: The New Zealand House of Representatives , 70 from single-member electorates , and 51 from party lists including one overhang seat . New Zealand since 1996 has used the Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) voting system, giving voters two votes: one for a political party and the other for their local electorate MP. A referendum on the voting system was held at the same time as the election, with voters voting by majority to keep

705-459: The Youth Party contested West Coast-Tasman. Seventeen independent candidates also contested the electorates in thirteen electorates: Christchurch Central, Coromandel, Epsom (two), Hamilton West (two), New Plymouth, Ōtaki, Rangitikei (two), Rongotai, Tāmaki (two), Tauranga, Waitaki, Wellington Central, and Ikaroa-Rawhiti On 11 November, National Party leader John Key met with John Banks ,

752-641: The ACT candidate for Epsom , over a cup of tea at a cafe in Newmarket to send a signal to Epsom voters about voting tactically. The National Party passively campaigned for Epsom voters to give their electorate vote to ACT while giving their party vote to National. This would allow ACT to bypass the 5% party vote threshold and enter Parliament by winning an electorate seat, thereby providing a coalition partner for National. However, in October and November 2011, polls of

799-406: The Electoral Commission on Writ Day can contest the general election as a party, allowing it to submit a party list to contend the party vote, and have a party election expenses limit in addition to individual candidate limits. At Writ Day, sixteen political parties were registered to contend the general election. At the close of nominations, thirteen registered parties had put forward a party list to

846-521: The Epsom electorate vote taken by various companies showed that the National candidate for Epsom, Paul Goldsmith, was leading in the polls and likely to win the seat. During the meeting, the two politicians' discussion was recorded by a device left on the table in a black pouch. The recording tapes were leaked to The Herald on Sunday newspaper, and subsequently created a media frenzy over the content of

893-462: The MMP system. A total of 3,070,847 people were registered to vote in the election, with over 2.2 million votes cast and a turnout of 74.21% – the lowest turnout since 1887. The incumbent National Party , led by John Key , gained the plurality with 47.3% of the party vote and 59 seats, two seats short of holding a majority. The opposing Labour Party , led by Phil Goff , lost ground winning 27.5% of

940-599: The Māori Party on 11 December 2011, to form a minority government with a seven-seat majority (64 seats to 57) and give the Fifth National Government a second term in office. The election date was set as Saturday 26 November 2011, as predicted by the media. Breaking with tradition, Prime Minister John Key announced the election date in February. Traditionally, the election date is a closely guarded secret, announced as late as possible. The date follows

987-647: The National Party had 58 seats, the Labour Party 43 seats, Green Party 9 seats, ACT and Māori Party five each, and Progressive and United Future one each. During the Parliament session, two members defected from their parties – Chris Carter was expelled from Labour in August 2010, and Hone Harawira left the Māori Party in February 2011. Carter continued as an independent , while Harawira resigned from parliament to recontest his Te Tai Tokerau electorate in

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1034-585: The National-led government a majority of 16 seats, with 69 on confidence-and-supply in the 122-seat Parliament. Labour , Greens and the Progressives are all in opposition, although only the Labour and Progressive parties formally constitute the formal Opposition ; the Greens have a minor agreement with the government but are not committed to confidence and supply support. At the 2008 election,

1081-470: The United Kingdom. A Bill was introduced into Parliament during mid-1986, and was passed unanimously with the support of both the Labour and National parties on 13 December 1986. The act came into force on 1 January 1987. Amendments were passed during 1987 and 1999. The Act repealed the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 , renamed the General Assembly as the "Parliament of New Zealand" and ended

1128-503: The behaviour of outgoing governments, which was dubbed the " caretaker convention". An Officials Committee on Constitutional Reform was established by the Labour Government to review New Zealand's constitutional law, and the Constitution Act resulted from two reports by this committee. The issue of the transfer of power from outgoing to incoming governments (and hence prime ministers) was not resolved by this Act, however, and

1175-767: The commission to contest the party vote, down from nineteen in 2008. The Kiwi Party , the New Citizen Party and the Progressive Party were registered, but did not contend the election under their own banners. The Kiwi Party and the New Citizen Party stood candidates for the Conservative Party. In addition to the registered parties and their candidates, thirteen candidates from nine non-registered parties contested electorates. The Human Rights Party contested Auckland Central,

1222-426: The counting of special votes. The Christmas/New Year holiday period made the last realistic date for the election Saturday 10 December 2011. The Rugby World Cup 2011 was hosted by New Zealand between 9 September and 23 October 2011, and ruled out all the possible election dates in this period. This left two possible windows for the general election: on or before 2 September and 29 October to 10 December. Key dates of

1269-613: The earthquakes. Nineteen advance voting stations were made available, with three of them campervans, which are usually only used in rural areas of New Zealand. The Christchurch Central electorate, for example, has 33 polling stations in 2011 compared to 45 in 2008. At the close of nominations, 544 individuals had been nominated to contest the election, down from 682 at the 2008 election. Of those, 91 were list-only, 73 were electorate-only (43 from registered parties, 17 independents, and 13 from non-registered parties), and 380 contested both list and electorate. Political parties registered with

1316-506: The election were the same as at the 2008 election. Electorates and their boundaries in New Zealand are reviewed every five years after the New Zealand census . The last review took place in 2007, following the 2006 census . The next review is not due until 2014, following the 2013 census (the 2011 census was cancelled due to the 22 February 2011 Christchurch earthquake ). On 17 September 2010, Justice Minister Simon Power announced

1363-553: The election were: However, as the recount of the Waitakere was not completed in time for the writ to be returned on 15 December, the return of the writ was delayed to 17 December 2011. Following the 2008 general election , National Party leader and Prime Minister John Key announced a confidence and supply agreement with ACT , the Māori Party and United Future to form the Fifth National Government . These arrangements gave

1410-583: The election, National gained one seat to hold 42 seats, Labour gained three seats to hold 23 electorates, Māori lost one seat to hold three, and ACT, Mana, and United Future held steady with one seat each. A National or Labour candidate took second place in all the general electorates except Rodney , where it was Conservative Party leader Colin Craig . In eleven electorates, the incumbents did not seek re-election, and new MPs were elected. In Coromandel , North Shore , Northland , Rangitikei , Rodney and Tāmaki ,

1457-473: The election. The majority of Labour's loss was the Green's gain, rising to 13% in the same period. No other party peaked on average above 5% in the period. Party vote percentage Prior to the election, the National Party held the majority of the electorate seats with 41. Labour held 20 seats, Māori held four seats, and ACT, Mana, Progressive, United Future and an ex-Labour independent held one seat each. After

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1504-492: The elections. The Labour Party leader Phil Goff ruled out a coalition agreement with Hone Harawira's new Mana Party , but left open the possibility of reaching an agreement with New Zealand First. In the 16 November minor parties debate, leaders from the minor parties stated their preferences: A Massey University study released in November 2012 suggested newspaper coverage was favourable towards National and John Key. In

1551-551: The government was introducing legislation making this the first election where voters would be able to re-enrol completely on-line. Enrolments on-line beforehand still required the election form to be printed, signed, and sent by post. Voters in the Christchurch region were encouraged to cast their votes before election day if they had doubt about being able to get to a polling booth on election day or to avoid long queues, as many traditional polling booths are unavailable due to

1598-415: The last day for issuance of writs of election was 2 December 2011. Except in some circumstances (such a recount or the death/incapacitation of an electorate candidate), the writs must be returned within 50 days of their issuance with the last possible working day being 20 January 2012. Because polling day must be a Saturday, the last possible polling date for the election was 7 January 2012, allowing time for

1645-492: The month leading up to the election, the big four newspapers in New Zealand – The New Zealand Herald , The Herald on Sunday , The Dominion Post and The Sunday Star-Times – printed 72 percent more photos of Key than his opponent, Phil Goff, and devoted twice as many column inches of text coverage. The nature of the Mixed Member Proportional voting system, whereby the share of seats in Parliament

1692-669: The process by passing the Constitution Act, 1982 , and the British Parliament had renounced its right to pass legislation on behalf of Canada in the Canada Act 1982 . The Australian Parliament passed the Australia Act 1986 in 1985, and the British Parliament would pass its own Act in February 1986. This left New Zealand as the only original Dominion from 1931 that still had residual constitutional links to

1739-950: The results of the 2011 general election: Key: ^† These people subsequently entered Parliament at the election as list MPs The election was notable for the entry in Parliament of New Zealand's first ever profoundly deaf MP, Mojo Mathers , number 14 on the Green Party's list. In total, 25 new MPs were elected to Parliament, and three former MPs returned. New MPs: Scott Simpson, Maggie Barry, Mike Sabin, Ian McKelvie, Mark Mitchell, Simon O'Connor, Alfred Ngaro, Jian Yang, Paul Goldsmith, David Clark, Rino Tirikatene, Megan Woods, Andrew Little, Eugenie Sage, Jan Logie, Steffan Browning, Denise Roche, Holly Walker, Julie Anne Genter, Tracey Martin, Andrew Williams, Richard Prosser, Denis O'Rourke, Asenati Taylor, Brendan Horan Returning MPs: John Banks, Winston Peters, Barbara Stewart Constitution Act 1986 The Constitution Act 1986

1786-459: The return of the writs issued for the last preceding general election of members of the House of Representatives, and no longer." The writs for the previous general election were returnable on 27 November 2008. As a result, the 49th Parliament would have expired, if not dissolved earlier, on 27 November 2011. As that day was a Sunday, the last available working day was 25 November 2011. Consequently,

1833-617: The right of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to make laws for New Zealand. The Act consists of four main parts: Only section 17 of the Act, which says that the term of Parliament is "three years from the day fixed for the return of the writs issued for the last preceding general election of members of the House of Representatives, and no longer", is entrenched , by section 268 of the Electoral Act 1993 . This provision requires that any amendment to section 17 can be made only by

1880-506: The right shows the collated results of all five polls for parties that have polled above the 5% electoral threshold. After the 2008 election, National gained in popularity, and since 2009 has regularly polled in the 50–55% range, peaking at 55% in August 2009 and October 2011, before falling to 51% in the week before the election. Labour and Green meanwhile kept steady after the election at 31–34% and 7–8% respectively until July 2011, when Labour started to lose support, falling to just 26% before

1927-506: The seat from National's Chris Auchinvole, who defeated him for the seat in 2008. In Waimakariri , National's Kate Wilkinson defeated Labour MP Clayton Cosgrove, and in Te Tai Tonga , Labour's Rino Tirikatene defeated Maori Party MP Rahui Katene. Christchurch Central on election night ended with incumbent Labour MP Brendon Burns and National's Nicky Wagner tied on 10,493 votes each, and on official counts, swung to Nicky Wagner with

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1974-617: The seats were passed from incumbent National MPs to new National MPs; in Epsom , the seat was passed from the incumbent ACT MP to the new ACT MP; and in Dunedin North and Manurewa , the seats were passed from incumbent Labour MPs to new Labour MPs. Labour also won Te Atatū from the retiring ex-Labour independent, and Wigram from the retiring Progressive MP. Of the 59 seats where the incumbent sought re-election, four changed hands. In West Coast-Tasman , Labour's Damien O'Connor regained

2021-403: The tradition of holding the general election on the last Saturday of November unless the schedule is interrupted by a snap election or to circumvent holding a by-election. The Governor-General must issue writs for an election within seven days of the expiration or dissolution of Parliament. Under section 17 of the Constitution Act 1986 , Parliament expires three years "from the day fixed for

2068-714: The transfer of executive powers remains a matter of unwritten constitutional conventions . The Officials Committee on Constitutional Reform reported back to Parliament during February 1986. The Committee recommended that New Zealand adopt an Act to restate various constitutional provisions in a single enactment that would replace the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852, thus "patriating" the Constitution Act to New Zealand. The recommendation followed events in Canada and Australia, which had recently patriated their own constitutions. The Canadian Parliament began

2115-599: The unreleased tapes. TVNZ held three party leaders' debates: two between the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition, and one between the leaders of the smaller parties. TV3 hosted a single debate between the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition. The National Party ruled out working with New Zealand First's Winston Peters after the election. ACT confirmed it would work with National after

2162-526: The vote and 34 seats, while the Green Party won 11.1% of the vote and 14 seats – the biggest share of the party vote for a minor party since 1996. New Zealand First , having won no seats in 2008 due to its failure to either reach the 5% threshold or win an electorate, made a comeback with 6.6% of the vote entitling them to eight seats. National's confidence and supply partners in the 49th Parliament meanwhile suffered losses. ACT New Zealand won less than

2209-399: Was unwilling initially to accept instructions from incoming Prime Minister David Lange to devalue the currency. Ministers hurriedly constructed an argument to convince Muldoon to comply, drawing on the ethos of past transitions, as there was no convention. Eventually he relented, but only after his own party caucus had threatened to replace him. A press statement was made on 17 June outlining

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