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Post by carlton43 on Sept 20, 2014 14:17:51 GMT
This is a stunning result for National who have an outright majority and do not need to be in coalition. I was the only vote above for NZFirst am delighted at their 11 seats (breathing down the necks of the Greens)and there to aid National in any strained parliamentary votes. Excellent result.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Sept 20, 2014 14:26:14 GMT
Are we looking at a National majority?!
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Post by Richard Allen on Sept 21, 2014 15:06:07 GMT
John Key has indicated that he hopes to negotiate a continuation of the confidence and supply deals he had in the two previous parliaments with United Future, ACT and The Maori Party. While he could try and govern without such agreements his majority of 1 is obviously very precarious.
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Post by Sibboleth on Sept 21, 2014 17:40:40 GMT
What's irritating is that the opposition could have won had they played things right; instead the result is this. Napier is a silver ling of sorts even if it's technically a vote-split fluke; it has a very long history of Labour representation and its nice to see it return.
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Post by markgoodair on Sept 30, 2014 17:21:04 GMT
David Cuncliffe has resigned as Labour party leader.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2014 21:26:38 GMT
Special votes counted and Greens up from 10% to 10.7%, so one extra MP bringing them up to the same number as last time (14). This came at the expense of a National MP, so they no won't have a majority in this parliament after all  |
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