New Zealand · Completed

2011 New Zealand general election

Name: 2011 New Zealand general election
Start: 2011-11-26
Location: New Zealand

Nov 26, 2011

Elections

Partial

Jurisdiction: New Zealand
Next national election: Nov 26, 2011
Role: Parliamentary election · Legislative
Selection method: Other method
Status: Completed
Round: 1

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Contest rounds

Round 1 · Single round

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

CompletedNov 26, 2011

Published contest rules

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  "early": false,
  "electorate": 3070847,
  "source": "ParlGov",
  "sourceElectionId": 776,
  "sourceElectionType": "parliament",
  "totalSeats": 121,
  "validVotes": 2237464,
  "votesCast": 2278989
}

Candidates

ACT New Zealand

Party

Affiliated party: ACT New Zealand

Ben Clark

Candidate

Affiliated party: New Zealand Labour Party

Wikidata

Mentioned

Conservative Party of New Zealand

Party

Affiliated party: Conservative Party of New Zealand

Green Party

Party

Affiliated party: Green Party

Labour Party

Party

Affiliated party: Labour Party

Mana Party

Party

Affiliated party: Mana Party

Māori Party

Party

Affiliated party: Māori Party

National Party

Party

Affiliated party: National Party

New Zealand First Party

Party

Affiliated party: New Zealand First Party

United Future New Zealand

Party

Affiliated party: United Future New Zealand

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

2011 New Zealand general election · Conservative Party

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 59,236
Seats: 0
Original value: 2.65
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

2011 New Zealand general election · United Future

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 13,443
Seats: 1
Original value: 0.60
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

2011 New Zealand general election · ACT New Zealand

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 23,889
Seats: 1
Original value: 1.07
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

2011 New Zealand general election · Mana

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 24,168
Seats: 1
Original value: 1.08
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

2011 New Zealand general election · Māori Party

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 31,982
Seats: 3
Original value: 1.43
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

2011 New Zealand general election · New Zealand First Party

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 147,544
Seats: 8
Original value: 6.59
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

2011 New Zealand general election · Green Party

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 247,370
Seats: 14
Original value: 11.06
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

2011 New Zealand general election · Labour Party

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 614,935
Seats: 34
Original value: 27.48
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

2011 New Zealand general election · National Party

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 1,058,637
Seats: 59
Original value: 47.31
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Signal

Ben Clark

2011 New Zealand general election · Completed

Aug 9, 2026 · Nov 26, 2011

Independent clusters, last 30 days: 0
Independent clusters, days 31–180: 0
Confidence: 80.0%

MentionedSource: Wikidata · CC0-1.0

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.

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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

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