On Monday the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, announced that the General Election will now be held on October 17, 2020. Last week the Minister of
Subscribers will be aware that last Thursday New Zealand First (‘NZ First’) announced that they would form a coalition Government with the Labour Party. Following
As noted above, this election result is particularly good for the Labour Party in regards to votes received from the Māori electorates. Their main political
In regards to Māori Electorate seat voting, as has been widely reported in the media, the Labour Party has taken a clean sweep of all
Māori electorate voting patterns show a much stronger voting preference for parties on the political left, particularly Labour. We advise, in total, there were 244,498
When Parliament recommences, (likely to be 17 October), there will be at least 23 Māori members. This represents 19% of the total 120 seats, slightly
The preliminary General Election results, for political parties that will be in the next Parliament, are shown in the table below.[1] Party Party Votes
The Māori Television Service has released further data from a political polling, which shows: 78% support for Nanaia Mahuta (Labour Party) in Hauraki-Waikato (compared with
As advised previously, the National Government does not have a specific Māori development policy, and until this week neither did the Labour Party for this
Yesterday the Green Party announced that it would seek to allocate $165 million to increase Māori language delivery in schools. The financial commitment is largely
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