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Kōrero: Referendums

New Zealand nationwide referendums, 1911-2020

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1915192019251930193519401945195019551960196519701975198019851990199520002005201020152020 Liquor licensing Six o’clock closing of hotel barsOff-course betting Compulsory military training Term of Parliament Firefighter numbers Compulsory Retirement Saving Scheme Reducing the size of ParliamentReform of the justice system Legalisation of recreational cannabisEnd of life choice Smacking 7, 14, 19 December 1911 10, 11 December 1914 9 March 1949 26, 27 November 1946 6, 7 December 1922 13 November 1954 30 November 1957 26 November 1966 29 November 1969 15 August 1987 Voting system 26 November 2011 State asset sales 17 December 2013 8 November 2008 27 November 1999 5 September 1997 2 December 1995 6 November 1993 19 September 1992 27 October 1990 14 July 1984 28 November 1981 25 November 1972 25 November 1978 29 November 1975 30 November 1963 26 November 1960 24, 25 September 1943 14, 15 October 1938 26, 27 November 1935 13, 14 November 1928 3, 4 November 1925 1 September 1949 3 August 1949 Voting system 24 March 2016 17 October 2020 11 December 2015 Flag Liquor licensing Liquor licensing Liquor licensing 16, 17 December 1919 Term of ParliamentSix o’clock closing of hotel bars 23 September 1967 10 April 1919

This timeline shows the nationwide referendums held in New Zealand since the first on national continuance or prohibition in 1911.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

Sources: Stephen Levine and Nigel S. Roberts, ‘The New Zealand electoral referendum and general election of 1993.’Election Studies 13, no. 3 (September 1994), p. 246; Jonathan Boston and others, New Zealand under MMP: a new politics? Auckland: University of Auckland Press and Bridget Williams Books, 1996, p. 23.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Nigel Roberts, Referendums – Representative democracy and referendums, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/table/36944/new-zealand-nationwide-referendums-1911-2020 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Nigel Roberts, i tāngia i te 12 June 2012, updated 1 December 2020.