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Wellington: New Zealands centre-right National Party led by Christopher Luxon is in a strong position to form a new government with its preferred coalition party ACT, with 52% of votes counted showing them likely to gain a majority in Saturdays general election...
The National Party, now in opposition, had 41% of the votes to 26% for the governing Labour Party, according to the Electoral Commission...
New Zealands Electoral Commission said that National and ACT would have 63 of the expected 121 seats in parliament based on the latest tally, enough to form a government without the help of a third minor party...
There are normally 120 seats in parliament but because the Te Pati Maoris four seats from constituencies exceeded its share of the national popular vote, the system calls for creating additional proportional seats to even out representation..
Under former leader Jacinda Ardern, Labour in 2020 became the first party to capture an outright majority since New Zealand switched to a mixed member proportional system in 1996...
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