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New Zealand · Completed

2008 New Zealand general election

Nov 8, 2008

Elections

Partial
Jurisdiction
New Zealand
Next national election
Nov 8, 2008
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": 2990759,
  "source": "ParlGov",
  "sourceElectionId": 660,
  "sourceElectionType": "parliament",
  "totalSeats": 122,
  "validVotes": 2344566,
  "votesCast": 2376480
}

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

2008 New Zealand general election · Labour Party

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes
796,880
Seats
43
Original value
33.99
Published precision
2
Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e
Published share34.0%

2008 New Zealand general election · ACT New Zealand

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes
85,496
Seats
5
Original value
3.65
Published precision
2
Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e
Published share3.7%

2008 New Zealand general election · Green Party

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes
157,613
Seats
9
Original value
6.72
Published precision
2
Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e
Published share6.7%

2008 New Zealand general election · New Zealand First Party

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes
95,356
Seats
0
Original value
4.07
Published precision
2
Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e
Published share4.1%

2008 New Zealand general election · National Party

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes
1,053,398
Seats
58
Original value
44.93
Published precision
2
Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e
Published share44.9%

2008 New Zealand general election · Maori Party

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes
55,980
Seats
5
Original value
2.39
Published precision
2
Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e
Published share2.4%

2008 New Zealand general election · United Future

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes
20,497
Seats
1
Original value
0.87
Published precision
2
Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e
Published share0.9%

2008 New Zealand general election · Progressive Party

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes
21,241
Seats
1
Original value
0.91
Published precision
2
Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e
Published share0.9%

Signal

Polls

Partial

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

source_not_registered

Forecasts

Partial

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

forecast_not_computed

Top issues

Partial

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

wikidata_election_items

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.

source_not_registered

Media profile

Partial

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

source_not_registered

Strengths · Weaknesses · Attacks · Controversies

Partial

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

source_not_registered

Campaign signals

Partial

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

source_not_registered

Sources

2

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