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	New Zealand elections - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		New Zealand general elections occur when the Prime Minister requests a dissolution of Parliament and therefore a general election.
		New Zealand currently has sixty-nine electorates (including seven Maori electorates specially set up for people of Maori ethnicity or ancestry who choose to place themselves on a separate electoral roll).
		New Zealand claims to have become the first country in the world to have granted women's suffrage, although the accuracy of this claim depends on the definitions used - see women's suffrage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand_elections (2264 words)

	Elections in New Zealand - November 1999
		November 1999 for New Zealand’s single-chamber parliament saw a big swing to the left and a clear majority of seats for a new coalition government to be formed by the two workers’ parties, Labour and the Alliance.
		Apparently the new model for New Zealand to emulate is the Republic of Ireland.
		The New Zealand Study of Values, which was published a year ago under the direction of Professor Alan Webster, a social psychologist, surveyed New Zealand social attitudes and values and correlated them with economic class and political preference.
	www.newyouth.com /archives/asia/newzealand/elections_in_new_zealand.html (4480 words)

	New Zealand elections: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		New Zealand often claims to be the first country in the world to have granted women's suffrage, although the accuracy of this often depends on the definitions used.
		One party-list candidate for the 2002 elections (2002 elections: more facts about this subject) was not able to assume her position as a member of parliament because she did not meet the criteria.
		43rd (43rd: the 43rd new zealand parliament was a term of the parliament of new zealand....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/new_zealand_elections (2524 words)

	Election Resources on the Internet: Elections to the New Zealand House of Representatives
		In the 2002 general election, six parties, namely the Labour Party, the National Party, the New Zealand First Party, ACT New Zealand, the Green Party and United Future, won at least five percent of all valid party votes cast.
		As a result, New Zealand governments have been coalitions of either of the two major parties with one of the smaller parties, usually supported by other minor parties outside government on the basis of more-or-less formal agreements.
		Meanwhile, New Zealand First was able to secure five seats in Parliament with only 4.2% of the party vote by winning the electorate seat of Tauranga, where party leader Winston Peters was elected with a majority of sixty-three votes out of 33,781 valid votes.
	electionresources.org /nz (2283 words)

	New Zealand (09/05)
		New Zealand was declared a dominion by a royal proclamation in 1907.
		New Zealand was a direct beneficiary of many of the reforms achieved under the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations, with agriculture in general and the dairy sector in particular enjoying many new trade opportunities.
		New Zealand is an active member of the global coalition in the War against Terrorism, and deployed SAS troops to Afghanistan, and naval and air assets to the Persian Gulf.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/35852.htm (4217 words)

	About New Zealand - www.govt.nz
		The Parliament of New Zealand consists of the Sovereign and the House of Representatives.
		The Governor-General is the Sovereign’s representative in New Zealand.
		New Zealand is a sovereign state with a democratic parliamentary government based on the Westminster system.
	www.govt.nz /en/aboutnz (2331 words)

	New Zealand by-elections - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		By-elections in New Zealand occur to fill vacant seats in the New Zealand Parliament.
		In recent years by-elections have not occurred particularly frequently — only one in the 2002 - 2005 parliamentary term, and none in the 1999 - 2002 term.
		Historically, however, they have taken place considerably more frequently — the 2nd Parliament of 1856 - 1860, for example, saw at least twenty by-elections, despite the House of Representatives then having only thirty-seven seats.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand_by-elections (155 words)

	New Zealand Election Study - About the 2002 NZES
		The 2002 New Zealand Election Study was conducted by telephone and mail questionnaire.
		For the new sample the postal response rate was 44.6 per cent (N=1338), with the telephone interview adding another 8 per cent (N=248), making a combined response rate of 52.2 per cent (N=1586).
		The Maori Election Study is an over-sample from the Maori electoral rolls (N=500).
	www.nzes.org /exec/show/2002 (534 words)

	New Zealand elections characterised by widespread political disenchantment
		New Zealand has long been held up as a country with strong democratic traditions and high levels of political participation.
		In the last election in 1996, participation rose to a high point for the decade of 88 percent, attributed mainly to the introduction of a new voting system based on proportional representation.
		At the 1996 elections, conducted under the new proportional representation system, the deeply unpopular National Party gained a minority of votes but retained its hold on government by entering into a coalition with the right-wing populist New Zealand First Party, led by a former National cabinet minister, Winston Peters.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/oct1999/nz-o19_prn.shtml (1420 words)

	NEW ZEALAND ELECTION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		New Labour members were not seen working as a party fraction in the many community, student and industrial battles of the past years.
		New Labour idea's were further diluted for the sake of unity.
		As new Labour Party/New Zealand First coalition government fail to live up to the expectations of their working class supporters, the Alliance is in a strong position to capitalise on this disenchantment and grow in support.
	home.mira.net /~sp/magazine/dec96/newzeal.htm (597 words)

	Amid hostility to market reforms Nationals defeated in New Zealand elections
		The minority National Party-led government of Prime Minister Jenny Shipley was convincingly defeated in New Zealand elections held last Saturday as voters took the opportunity to express their hostility to the impact of a decade and a half of “market reform”; policies.
		In the 1980s and 1990s, New Zealand was hailed around the world as a model for the dismantling the welfare state and the policies of national economic regulation.
		Waiting in the wings for a new National government was his legislation to give employers the right to force workers to trade in their public holidays for cash payments.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/dec1999/nz-d02.shtml (2407 words)

	New Zealand Election Study
		New Zealand's fourth election under MMP was held on September 17, 2005.
		The NZES began in its present form in 1990, continued in 1993, 1996, 1999, and 2002 and its most recent study includes the 2005 general election.
		New Zealand's third election under MMP was held on July 27, 2002.
	www.nzes.org (471 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Have Your Say \| New Zealand election: Your views
		New Zealand's ruling party has won enough votes for 50 seats in parliament to the opposition National Party's 49, but will need the support of minor parties to form a government.
		It is also a relief that New Zealand avoided the international debt that National promised with the spectre of peak oil on the horizon.
		While New Zealand may be a country small in size, it serves as a towering example of reasonableness and decency.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/talking_point/4255382.stm (3271 words)

	How to Double Your Vote in New Zealand's Elections
		There's enough confusion on the subject that the New Zealand Electoral Commission conducts polls to determine the public's understanding of how MMP works, and to see if this understanding improves or gets worse over time.
		If you are a New Zealand voter and your electorate vote contributes to an overhang, then the "-1" in your +1 + (+1 + -1) party votes has disappeared, and you are left with +1 + +1 = +2 votes.
		This time there was an overhang, for the first time in New Zealand MMP electoral history, consisting of 4 members of the Maori Party voted to the 4 Maori electorate seats, who exceeded by 1 seat the 3 seats that they were entitled to according to their share of the party vote.
	www.1729.com /blog/DoubleYourVote.html (1756 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| NZ election goes to the wire
		Under New Zealand's mixed-member proportional representation system (MMP), the larger parties are likely to have to seek support from the smaller parties in order to gain a workable majority in the 120-member single chamber parliament.
		A new entrant to the political system is the Maori Party, which says it aims to give indigenous people an authentic voice in parliament.
		New Zealand is seeking to follow Australia's lead in winning a free trade agreement with Washington, but a major stumbling block has been Wellington's liberal internationalist stance.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/4240444.stm (922 words)

	CNN - New Zealand elections may result in swing to left - Oct. 12, 1996
		WELLINGTON, New Zealand (CNN) -- Early returns from New Zealand's general election Saturday showed the country's left-leaning parties on the verge of trumping the ruling conservative party which has led the country for the last six years.
		The opposition Labor Party, nationalist party New Zealand First and left-wing Alliance party were expected to pick up a total of 68 seats, enough to topple the National Party if they form a coalition.
		Turnout was very high, estimated at 90 percent, in the first test of a new political system designed to give smaller parties a greater voice in government.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9610/12/new.zealand.elections (392 words)

	New-Zealand-Elections, 1st Writethru Bgt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Clark, seeking to become New Zealand's first Labour leader since the Second World War to serve three consecutive terms as prime minister, was believed to have a better a chance of finding enough allies.
		Brash, who advocates scrapping New Zealand's 20-year-old nuclear-free policy in favour of stronger trade ties with the United States, rejuvenated his party by promising to scrap affirmative action programs for indigenous Maori.
		Still to be counted are "special votes" cast by New Zealanders overseas or voting outside their home electorate.
	www.cp.org /premium/ONLINE/member/World/050917/w091747A.html (508 words)

	History of the Vote
		New Zealand's first parliamentary elections were held in 1853.
		But over the next half century New Zealand was to become one of the most democratic nations in the world.
		In 1993 New Zealanders voted in a referendum to change their voting system from the traditional first-past-the-post (FPP) method to Mixed Member Proportional representation (MMP).
	www.elections.org.nz /history.html (249 words)

	ACT News - Voting in New Zealand Elections while Overseas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		According to the New Zealand High Commission on London, there are around 80,000 New Zealanders in the UK at any one time.
		You are a New Zealand citizen or permanent resident, and
		You are a permanent resident of New Zealand who has not been in New Zealand at all within the last 12 months.
	www.act.org.nz /news-article.aspx?id=21007 (813 words)

	ABC News: Voting Begins in New Zealand Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		WELLINGTON, New Zealand Sep 16, 2005 (AP)— Voting got underway Saturday in a New Zealand election that could redefine the government's relationship with the United States and this South Pacific nation's indigenous Maori people.
		National Party leader Don Brash, a 64-year-old economist and former central bank governor, has said he would be prepared to dismantle New Zealand's 20-year-old nuclear-free laws to help prepare the way for a free trade deal with Washington although he first would seek approval for the move in a referendum.
		Nuclear laws have strained relations between Washington and Wellington since they were enacted in 1985, leading to New Zealand's being frozen out of a defense treaty with the United States and Australia.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1133518 (393 words)

	New Zealand General Elections 2005 - Backgrounders - Reference - Christchurch City Libraries
		The new rolls are displayed at local PostShops, public libraries and district courthouses.
		Elections New Zealand is the official election site.
		New Zealand Political Parties' web sites will have information about party policies and candidates.
	library.christchurch.org.nz /Reference/Backgrounders/NZElections (243 words)

	Elections around the world - New Zealand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Blue with the flag of the United Kingdom in the upper hoist-side quadrant with four red five-pointed stars edged in white centred in the outer half of the flag; the stars represent the Southern Cross constellation.
		New Zealand Election Study examines and monitors the democratic process for each New Zealand election, starting in 1990.
		With the election too close to call on election night, it is now clear that Labour's Helen Clark is set for a third term in office.
	www.aph.gov.au /library/intguide/POL/elections/nz.htm (439 words)

	New Zealand's Parliament
		New Zealand has had three elections under MMP.
		In New Zealand, elections must be held every three years, not every five years as is common in Canada.
		In 1999, Kiwis voted heavily in favour of reducing the number of MPs to 99 from 120, and to increase the severity of sentencing for criminals.
	www.jackwebster.com /vote/nz_parl.htm (122 words)

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