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Incredible, historic election night. Well done everyone, and congratulations to Labour, the Greens and the Māori Party. Head over to Matt's post on the probable make up of parliament if you want to see who is in, who is out, by electorate and list. Labour…
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I don't think the bad news is over for National. I will go out on two limbs here and predict that they will lose Whangarei and they will also lose entitlement to a seat. Maureen Pugh's career will be over. And Nick Smith will also…
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Winston you were my man when your dark brown wavy hair and beatific smile rose to glory within National when National needed to prove again that Maori could rise to elected respectability within even the most tilted of social structures. You were partnership material at Russel…
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This is a truly remarkable result. Not in my wildest dreams did I think that Labour would gain a majority. I thought the good old kiwi habit of wanting to share the love around would prevent this from being achieved. The electorate map is now…
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With all the preliminary votes counted for the night, so let's look at who's in most likely and out: Electorate MPs: (Alphabetically by winner's party name, then by electorate name, a slight reformatting of the official results) Electorate Leading candidate Epsom SEYMOUR, David Breen (ACT)…
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This post for general discussion about election results. There are also posts on Key Electorates, and Natwatch. Electoral Commission Election Results Preliminary General Election results will be available here progressively from 7.00pm on election night. Targets for release of the preliminary General Election results are:…
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This has been an incredible year for the National Party. Will it implode publicly tonight with a series of attacks on the leadership and campaign by disgruntled MPs or will Judith perform better than expected and minimise the carnage. This post is to follow National's…
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TVNZ electorate results page. Auckland Central Electoral Commission live update page. Emma Mellow/National Helen White/Labour Chloe Swarbrick/Greens Tamaki Makaurau Electoral Commission live update page. Peeni Henare/Labour Marama Davidson/Greens John Tamihere/Māori Party Polling last week. Waiariki EC results Tamati Coffey/Labour Rawiri Waititi/Māori Party …
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There are some rules around Election day material on a website like ours. This rule applies to websites and social mediaDon’t post anything to social media or a website on election day that could influence voters. Also make sure your profile pictures on social media…
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All three major pollsters have delivered their final results within two days of election day, giving us a nice picture into what the spread of results tomorrow could look like, with the trend looking good for some sort of centre-left government, but a majority government…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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If 2017 was the election where we changed the government from right to centre left, then 2020 should be the election where we changed that centre left govt into a green left one. We're kind of getting there, but here's the problem. The climate crisis…
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It is election day tomorrow. This campaign is different to previous campaigns. Advance voting is phenomenal. As at yesterday morning over 1.5 million people had early voted. It seems pretty clear that most people have made up their mind and want the campaign finished. Last…
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Labour is coming off strastopheric polling but the Greens are looking safer. And National is still on the decline. The figures are above and things are looking promising. Make sure you vote for your preferred progressive party this weekend if you have not already.
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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Reprinted with permission from Socialist Aotearoa. Should we legalise the recreational use of cannabis? Yes – because let’s be clear: the ‘war on drugs’ is a class and race war masquerading as a crusade to shield young people from harm. The fact is Kiwis do…
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I wrote a post the other day, About that wealth tax, explaining how the Green Party's proposed wealth tax would work. It's worth reading if you still believe that the tax will hurt Grandma and Grandad savers (it won't). This week the heat has been…
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National MP David Bennett has come up with a radical new proposal to address Government debt. He wants a lover tax to be imposed. And I thought that National was the party of no new taxes. I wonder if he has canvassed the proposal with…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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Press release from the Green Party. Greens welcome Labour’s climate commitments, will push for more action to match the scale of the crisis Posted by James Shaw October 07, 2020 1:09 PM The Green Party welcomes Labour’s commitment to reduce climate emissions in the next…
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The latest UMR poll results were leaked yesterday and were not good for National. The rumoured results were: Labour: 50% National: 29% ACT: 7% Greens: 6% Winston First 2.7% Clearly they approximate National's own polling and they have caused Judith Collins to reflect and tone…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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The 2014 election campaign still burns in my memory. The Labour Party was clearly divided, unity and discipline was lacking and the electorate could sense it. Things were that bad we had Labour list MPs not campaigning for the party vote. Clearly they thought that…
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Newshub are reporting that the NZMA no longer has a position on the current referendum on the legalisation of cannabis, NZMA chairperson Dr Kate Baddock wrote a letter in NZ Doctor apologising to members who felt they hadn't been given the chance to speak their…
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