October 2020 New Zealand general election

The October 2020 general election will be held on 31 October 2020. The current Parliament was elected on Saturday, 23 September 2017. Voters will elect 25 members to the House of Representatives under New Zealand's mixed-member proportional (MMP) voting system, a proportional representation system in which 11 members are elected from single-member electorates and 14 members are elected from closed party lists.

Electoral system
New Zealand uses a mixed-member proportional (MMP) voting system to elect the House of Representatives. Each voter gets two votes, one for a political party (the party vote) and one for a local candidate (the electorate vote). Political parties that meet the threshold (5% of the party vote or one electorate seat) receive seats in the House in proportion to the percentage of the party vote they receive. 11 of the 25 seats are filled by the MPs elected from the electorates, with the winner in each electorate determined by the first past the post method (i.e. most votes wins). The remaining 14 seats are filled by candidates from each party's pre-decided party list. If a party wins more electorates than seats it is entitled to under the party vote, an overhang occurs; in this case, the House will add extra seats to cover the overhang.

Schedule
The election date, initially 19 September 2020, was postponed to 31 October 2020 following a new outbreak of COVID-19. The timetable for the general election is as follows:

Registered parties
Political parties registered with the Electoral Commission can contest the general election as a party. A registered party may submit a party list to contest the party vote. Unregistered parties and independents can contest the electorate vote only. Candidates were released on 26 October 2020.

Electorate results
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