Democracy not a 'plaything for billionaires', says Hipkins of vote-splitting strategy

The right ‘buggered themselves’ with overhang strategy, Waititi says

Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi says the right “buggered themselves up” by emulating their strategy to engineer an overhang, which resulted in National seeing “many of their big players now gone”.

Democracy not a 'plaything for billionaires', says Hipkins of vote-splitting strategy

Out-going National MP Gerry Brownlee says the vote-splitting campaign has not "worked as it was supposed to", but the election result could make people think about "First Past The Post again".

Inside the left’s vote splitting: Greens rocket, Labour hovers, TPM dives

The Greens benefited far more than Labour from the vote-splitting strategy on the left, gaining more than 50,000 party votes in Māori seats compared to 2023.

Election result could revive First Past the Post debate, Brownlee says

Reading Time: 2 minutes Out-going National MP Gerry Brownlee says the vote-splitting campaign has not “worked as it was supposed to”, but the election result could make people think about “First Past The Post again”. Speaking to Midday Report, Brownlee said the message about vote-splitting had “got through to some people” but they likely wouldn’t have known Parliament would potentially grow to over 130 seats. “I don’t think at that stage, (MMP) …