NZ 2014 – election day
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Voters are now going to the polls in New Zealand to elect the next Parliament - and therefore their new government - for the next three years.
Polls close at 7pm tonight New Zealand time - which is 5pm where I am in Sydney. I...
Scottish independence: results live
Results summary - 32 out of 32 councils reporting
Votes
%
Yes
1,617,989
44.68
No
2,001,926
55.28
Total
3,621,107
Turnout
84.49%
3:14pm - With the declaration of the result in Fife, it is now mathematically impossible for Yes to win. There are two more councils - Highlands and Moray - yet to report, but I'm going to...
Seat #15: East Coast Bays
East Coast Bays is a National Party electorate in the northern suburbs of Auckland.
East Coast Bays covers a very conservative area, and on paper the seat is very safe for Foreign Minister Murray McCully, who has sat as a National MP representing the area...
Seat #14: Te Tai Tonga
Te Tai Tonga is a Māori electorate covering all of the South Island and most of the Wellington region.
The electorate was won by the Māori Party's Rahui Katene in 2008, and won back by Labour's Rino Tirikatene in 2011.
Tirikatene holds the seat by an 8.8%...
Seat #13: Te Atatū
Te Atatū is a marginal Labour seat in the western suburbs of Auckland, covering the Te Atatu Peninsula and the suburbs of Glendene Henderson, Lincoln, Ranui, Swanson and Te Atatu South.
Phil Twyford won the seat in 2011, with a margin of 18.4%. The recent redistribution abolished the...
Seat #12: West Coast-Tasman
West Coast-Tasman is a large marginal Labour seat covering most of the western coast of the South Island, including Greymouth, Westport, Murchison, Takaka and Motueka.
West Coast-Tasman was Labour-held from 1999 to 2008, when it was won by the National Party. The seat was won back...
Seat #11: Mana
Mana is a marginal Labour electorate covering suburbs north of Wellington, which is held by Labour MP Kris Faafoi by a 6.6% margin.
Faafoi won the seat in a 2010 by-election. The seat has been held by Labour since its creation in 1996 but the...
Victorian local government election review – the rest of the story
Earlier this week, I wrote a blog post about the Independent Local Government Electoral Review Panel in Victoria, chaired by former federal Liberal MP Petro Georgiou. In particular I focused on recommendations to modify the local government franchise, by extending the right to vote...
Seat #10: Wigram
Wigram is a marginal Labour seat in the western suburbs of Christchurch.
The electorate was held since 1996 by Jim Anderton, a former Labour MP who had left the party in the late 1980s and went on to found the Alliance. The Alliance crumbled before...
Seat #9: Maungakiekie
Maungakiekie is a marginal National seat in the inner south-east of Auckland.
The electorate has been held by National MP Sam Lotu-Iiga since 2008, and he currently holds the seat by a 5.7% margin.
The seat was held from 1999 to 2008 by Labour, and is...