Aotearoa New Zealand · 2026 General Election

MMP seat calculator

Starts from the election-night count. Add the special votes still to come, move any party's vote, or give an electorate to another candidate, and see how the seats in Parliament change, and why any overhang seats appear.

Preliminary count · 100% of ordinary votes counted · updated Sun, 8 Nov 2026, 3:45 am · official result due 27 November

Showing the election-night result.

Parliament13111 overhang
Majority66
National–ACT–NZ FirstNat–ACT–NZF67majority
Labour–Green–Te Pāti MāoriLab–Grn–TPM579 short
Opportunity7crossbench

Parliament

131 seats, 66 for a majority. Hatched = overhang seats.

0Half (65.5)131

Seats by party

Share = seats its party vote is worth. Elect. = electorates won.

PartyParty voteShareElect.ListOver.Seats
NationalOver 5%29.21%706,68035420742
LabourOver 5%29.36%710,330362115–36
GreenOver 5%13.30%321,90216214–16
ACTOver 5%10.92%264,12113112–13
NZ FirstOver 5%9.78%236,63012012–12
OpportunityOver 5%5.96%144,298707–7
Te Pāti MāoriUnder 5%, won an electorate0.57%13,84515045
Other parties10 parties, under 5%, no electorate0.85%20,759–00–0
Total100%120716011131
How the last seats were decided

Each qualifying party's votes are divided by 1, 3, 5, 7… and the biggest results win seats, one at a time (Sainte-Laguë). These are the final seats handed out, and who would have been next.

SeatPartyVotes ÷Result
116 Green÷ 3110,384
117 Labour÷ 6910,295
118 NZ First÷ 2310,288
119 National÷ 6910,242
120 Labour÷ 7110,005
Next National÷ 719,953
ACT÷ 279,782
Green÷ 339,755

Special votes

Not in the election-night count: overseas, dictation, enrolment-on-the-day and other specials. Counted for the official result on 27 November.

399,365 (14.2% of all votes)
How they vote

Each party gets its election-night share, scaled by how it did in 2023's specials compared with election night: Greens ×1.37, Te Pāti Māori ×1.85, Labour ×1.00, National ×0.89, ACT ×0.82, NZ First ×0.72.

National26.1%
Labour29.4%
Green18.2%
ACT8.9%
NZ First7.1%
Opportunity8.1%
Te Pāti Māori1.1%
Other parties1.1%

Party vote

Drag to change one party's votes. Other parties keep their votes, so their percentages move a little.

29.21%
706,680 votes
29.36%
710,330 votes
13.30%
321,902 votes
10.92%
264,121 votes
9.78%
236,630 votes
5.96%
144,298 votes
0.57%
13,845 votes
Smaller parties
0.19%
4,829 votes
0.11%
2,685 votes
0.10%
2,585 votes
0.07%
1,886 votes
0.07%
1,856 votes
0.07%
1,855 votes
0.06%
1,529 votes
0.05%
1,217 votes
0.04%
1,168 votes
0.04%
1,149 votes

Why the overhang?

11 overhang seats (National 7, Te Pāti Māori 4), so Parliament has 131 seats.

More electorates than the party vote covers

Applies

National won 42 electorates. Its 29.21% of the party vote is worth 35 seats, so it keeps all 42 electorate MPs, gets no list MPs, and Parliament grows by 7.

Labour, on almost the same party vote (29.36%), is entitled to 36: its 21 electorate MPs fit inside that, and 15 list MPs top it up.

To cover all 42 from its party vote, National would have needed about 200,357 more party votes (34.6% instead of 29.2%).

Why it happens: National's candidates got 41.3% of all electorate votes, against 29.2% of the party vote. Many people split their two votes, and 15 of its 42 seats were won with less than half the votes.

Electorates won with under 5% of the party vote

Applies

Te Pāti Māori won 5 electorates with 0.57% of the party vote (13,845 votes). Winning an electorate lets those votes count despite the 5% rule, but they are only worth 1 seat, so 4 of its MPs are extra.

Split voting: on election night its candidates got 67,728 votes in the 5 electorates it won, but the party got only 7,718 party votes there. Most of its electorate voters gave their party vote to another party.

Seats taken out before the party vote is shared

Not this time

Nobody won an electorate as an independent or for a party without a list, so all 120 seats are shared by party vote.

Party votes that don't count towards seats

Applies

10 parties got under 5% and won no electorate: 20,759 party votes (0.86%) don't count. Seats are shared on the other 99.14%, which makes every qualifying party's share a little bigger.

Not a cause of overhang, but it changes how many seats each share is worth: here one seat costs about 19,982 party votes.

A tie for the last seat

Not this time

No tie. The last seat (number 120) went to Labour on 10,005; next in line was National on 9,953.

Electorates

71 electorates (64 general, 7 Māori). Pick a different winner in any of them.

Closest seats

  1. Wairarapa: Mike Butterick (National) leads Kieran McAnulty (Labour) by 139.About 6,855 special votes to come here; Labour would need to win them by 139 more (2.0% of them). If Labour takes it: Parliament 130, National–ACT–NZ First 66 (needs 66).
  2. Wellington Bays: Craig Renney (Labour) leads Julie Anne Genter (Green) by 140.About 6,759 special votes to come here; Green would need to win them by 140 more (2.1% of them). If Green takes it: Parliament 131, National–ACT–NZ First 67 (needs 66).
  3. Mt Roskill: Michael Wood (Labour) leads Carlos Cheung (National) by 262.About 5,007 special votes to come here; National would need to win them by 262 more (5.2% of them). If National takes it: Parliament 132, National–ACT–NZ First 68 (needs 67).
  4. Te Tai Tokerau: Aperahama Edwards (Te Pāti Māori) leads Hūhana Lyndon (Green) by 436.About 4,624 special votes to come here; Green would need to win them by 436 more (9.4% of them). If Green takes it: Parliament 130, National–ACT–NZ First 67 (needs 66).
  5. Hamilton East: Ryan Hamilton (National) leads Georgie Dansey (Labour) by 456.About 5,140 special votes to come here; Labour would need to win them by 456 more (8.9% of them). If Labour takes it: Parliament 130, National–ACT–NZ First 66 (needs 66).

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How it works

The seat maths follows the Electoral Act and the Electoral Commission's own method:

  1. A party can get list seats if it wins at least 5% of the party vote or at least one electorate.
  2. Electorates won by independents, or by parties without a party list, come off the 120 first.
  3. The remaining seats are shared between the qualifying parties by the Sainte-Laguë formula: each party's votes are divided by 1, 3, 5, 7… and the largest results win seats.
  4. Each party's electorate MPs are counted first and its list MPs fill the gap up to its share. A party that wins more electorates than its share keeps them all, and Parliament grows by the difference. These are overhang seats. No other party loses seats because of them.

Checked against the official figures: with the election-night votes it gives exactly the published 131 seats (11 overhang), party by party, and with the 2023 official count it gives the 2023 Parliament of 122.

Special votes

The Electoral Commission estimates 399,365 special votes in 2026, about 14% of all votes. In 2023 there were 596,770, about 20%. "Like 2023's specials" applies how each party did in 2023's special votes compared with its election-night share: Greens and Te Pāti Māori did much better in specials, National, ACT and NZ First worse. Parties that did not stand in 2023 get their election-night share.

For electorates, the special votes are spread in proportion to each electorate's election-night count, using the same party pattern. Specials are much higher in some seats (inner-city and Māori electorates especially), so treat the electorate projections as rough. You can always set any electorate's winner yourself.

Data

Electoral Commission preliminary count, as published by RNZ (rnz.co.nz/news/election-2026-results). Data version ge2026-preliminary-2026-11-07T14:45:13.000Z. Party votes and every electorate's candidate votes were cross-checked: the 71 electorates' party votes add up exactly to each party's national total.