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New Zealand · Completed

New Zealand — Parliamentary election — 1996-10-12

Oct 12, 1996

Elections

Stale
Jurisdiction
New Zealand
Next national election
Oct 12, 1996
Role
Parliamentary election · Legislative
Selection method
Other method
Status
Completed
Round
1
Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Contest rounds

Round 1 · Single round
Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e
Completed
Published contest rules
{
  "early": false,
  "electorate": 2418587,
  "source": "ParlGov",
  "sourceElectionId": 561,
  "sourceElectionType": "parliament",
  "totalSeats": 120,
  "validVotes": 2072359,
  "votesCast": 2135175
}

Candidates

Candidate–opponent strategy evidence

A directional comparison and factual public-message frame for each sourced pair in the same contest.

Preliminary evidence scenario, not a prediction or guarantee of an electoral result. It uses public sources, makes no causal claim and uses no demographic microtargeting. Methodology

There is not enough compatible, sourced evidence to publish a pairwise analysis for this contest yet.

Election results

New Zealand — Parliamentary election — 1996-10-12 · Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes
34,398
Seats
0
Original value
1.66
Published precision
2
Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e
Published share1.7%

New Zealand — Parliamentary election — 1996-10-12 · Christian Heritage/ Coalition

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes
89,716
Seats
0
Original value
4.33
Published precision
2
Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e
Published share4.3%

New Zealand — Parliamentary election — 1996-10-12 · National Party

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes
701,315
Seats
44
Original value
33.84
Published precision
2
Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e
Published share33.8%

New Zealand — Parliamentary election — 1996-10-12 · United New Zealand

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes
18,245
Seats
1
Original value
0.88
Published precision
2
Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e
Published share0.9%

New Zealand — Parliamentary election — 1996-10-12 · New Zealand First Party

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes
276,603
Seats
17
Original value
13.35
Published precision
2
Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e
Published share13.4%

Signal

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Polls

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Forecasts

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Top issues

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Prediction components

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

forecast_not_computed

Media profile

Approval · Favorability · Negativity

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Media profile

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Strengths · Weaknesses · Attacks · Controversies

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Campaign signals

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Sources

2

  1. 1WikidataCC0-1.0 · Aug 9, 2026
  2. 2Unicode Common Locale Data RepositoryUnicode-3.0 · Aug 9, 2026