Jacinda Ardern was projected to claim a famous victory and an outright majority as early results rolled in on Saturday
"This is our opportunity to build an economy that works for everyone, to keep creating decent jobs ... to take on poverty and inequality, to turn all of the uncertainty and hard times into cause for hope and optimism."
With the IMF projecting New Zealand will be in a worse position in five years' time than other comparable nations, "[we] will need better fiscal policy than we have seen so far".Smiles abound: Jacinda Ardern campaigning on Friday.On the current numbers Ardern won’t need the Greens to form government – she can claim a majority of seats in the Parliament for the first time since New Zealand moved to the mixed-member proportional representation system in 1996.
She did indicate, however, that she was reluctant to hand over the deputy prime ministership to the Greens.The NZ Electoral Commission is now projecting the Maori Party could win one seat in the Parliament.The two big losers in the poll were National and New Zealand First. National was projected to win just 35 seats on early results – down on 56 after the 2017 poll - and 26.9 per cent of the vote.
Other than Labour, the winners in this election are the New Zealand Greens, who were projected to win 10 seats – an increase of two from 2017 – and the centre right ACT party, led by David Seymour, which is projected to win 10 seats, up from one in 2017, by picking up voters who deserted National and NZ First. The Maori Party could also return to parliament with one seat.
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