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Parties in Parliament, 1890–2023

Choose election year:

  • 1890

  • 1893

  • 1896

  • 1899

  • 1902

  • 1905

  • 1908

  • 1911

  • 1914

  • 1919

  • 1922

  • 1925

  • 1928

  • 1931

  • 1935

  • 1938

  • 1943

  • 1946

  • 1949

  • 1951

  • 1954

  • 1957

  • 1960

  • 1963

  • 1966

  • 1969

  • 1972

  • 1975

  • 1978

  • 1981

  • 1984

  • 1987

  • 1990

  • 1993

  • 1996

  • 1999

  • 2002

  • 2005

  • 2008

  • 2011

  • 2014

  • 2017

  • 2020

  • 2023

This diagram shows which parties made it into Parliament and how many seats they held at elections from 1890 to 2023. The ‘U’ shape of the diagram is modelled on the seating in the parliamentary debating chamber, in which the governing party sits to the right of the speaker, who is seated at the open end of the ‘U’.

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Bryce Edwards, Elections and campaigns – Election day, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/interactive/37132/parties-in-parliament-1890-2023 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Bryce Edwards, published 23 May 2012, updated 1 July 2016.