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New Zealand electoral systems

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New Zealand electoral systems

As this diagram shows, New Zealand's Parliament has used three methods to elect its members: first-past-the-post, two-round and mixed-member proportional voting. In local-body elections, a wide range of other systems have been used.

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Nigel S. Roberts, Electoral systems – MMP in practice, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/diagram/35707/new-zealand-electoral-systems (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Nigel S. Roberts, published 14 June 2012, updated 1 February 2015.