Sunday, November 09, 2008

NZ election results in an alternate world

Graeme Edgeler has calculated what Parliament would look like if there was no 5% threshold.

New Zealand National Party - 55 seats
New Zealand Labour Party - 41 seats
The Greens - 8 seats
New Zealand First Party - 5 seats
Māori Party - 5 seats
Act New Zealand - 4 seats
Jim Anderton’s Progressive - 1 seat
United Future New Zealand - 1 seat
The Kiwi Party - 1 seat
The Bill and Ben Party - 1 seat

You need 62 seats to be Government with hte overhang. So...

National 55 + ACT 4 + United Future 1 + Kiwi Party 1 = 61/122

Labour 41 + Greens 8 + NZ First 5 + Progressive 1 + Maori 5 = 60/122

And we are left with Bill from the Bill and Ben party (a joke party started up by two tv comedians). Classy.

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