2020 New Zealand general election

The **2020 New Zealand general election** was held after the currently elected 52nd New Zealand Parliament is dissolved or expires. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the election date as Saturday 17 October 2020.

In the last election, Labour Party, led by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, formed a minority coalition government with the New Zealand First party.

Incumbent Prime Minister Ardern was re-elected with a Labour landslide victory.

## Election changes

Electorate boundaries for the next election are due to be redrawn in 2019, after the 2018 census and Māori electoral option. This means that unless a snap election is called before 2019, the next general election will be the first to use boundaries based on the 2018 census.

## Seat projections

|style="background:#EAECF0" colspan=2|Party|style="width:15em; background:#EAECF0"|2017 election result|style="width:15em; background:#EAECF0"|Roy Morgan <small>30 Oct – 12 Nov 2017 poll</small>|style="width:15em; background:#EAECF0"|1 News Colmar Brunton <small>19–23 May 2018 poll</small>|style="width:15em; background:#EAECF0"|Radio NZ <small>5 Jun 2018 poll of polls</small>|style="width:15em; background:#EAECF0"|Newshub Reid Research <small>17–24 May 2018 poll</small>|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|National Party|**56**|51|58|57|58|||||||
|Labour Party|**46**|49|55|54|55|||||||
|New Zealand First|**9**|6|0|0|0|||||||
|Green Party|**8**|13|6|8|8|||||||
|ACT|**1**|1|1|1|1*|||||||
|**120**|120|120|120|122||||||||
||**National−NZ First** (65)|rowspan="2"|**Labour−Green** (62)|rowspan="2"|**Labour−Green** (61)|rowspan="2"|**Labour−Green** (62)|rowspan="2"|**Labour–Green** (63)|||
||**Labour−Green−NZ First** (63)|||||||||||
|colspan="7" style="font-size:80%; text-align:center; background:#EAECF0"|Note: Forecasted seats are currently calculated using the Electoral Commission's MMP seat allocation calculator, based on polling results.|||||||||||

## Infobox (election)

- **election name**: 2020 New Zealand general election
- **country**: New Zealand
- **type**: parliamentary
- **previous election**: 2017 New Zealand general election
- **previous year**: 2017
- **outgoing members**: 52nd New Zealand Parliament
- **election date**: 17 October 2020
- **next election**: 2023 New Zealand general election
- **next year**: _2023_
- **elected members**: 53rd New Zealand Parliament
- **seats for election**: All 120 seats in the New Zealand House of Representatives, House of Representatives
- **majority seats**: 61
- **opinion polls**: Opinion polling for the 2020 New Zealand general election
- **turnout**: 2,919,073 (82.24%;  2.49 Percentage point, pp)
- **1blank**: Electorate vote
- **2blank**: Party vote
- **leader1**: Jacinda Ardern
- **leader since1**: 2017 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, 1 August 2017
- **party1**: New Zealand Labour Party
- **leaders seat1**: Mount Albert (New Zealand electorate), Mount Albert
- **last election1**: 46 seats
36.89%
- **seats before1**: 46
- **seats1**: **65**
- **seat change1**: 19
- **1data1**: **1,357,501
48.07%**
 10.19 Percentage point, pp
- **2data1**: **1,443,545
50.01%**
 13.12 pp
- **image2 size**: 120x160px
- **leader2**: Judith Collins
- **party2**: New Zealand National Party
- **leader since2**: July 2020 New Zealand National Party leadership election, 14 July 2020
- **leaders seat2**: Papakura (New Zealand electorate), Papakura
- **last election2**: 56 seats
44.45%
- **seats before2**: 56
- **seats2**: 33
- **seat change2**: 23
- **1data2**: 963,845
34.13%
 9.92 pp
- **2data2**: 738,275
25.58%
 18.87 pp
- **leader3**: James Shaw (New Zealand politician), James Shaw
 Marama Davidson
- **leader since3**: 2015 Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand male co-leadership election, 30 May 2015
2018 Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand female co-leadership election, 8 April 2018
- **party3**: Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand
- **leaders seat3**: Party-list proportional representation, List
- **last election3**: 8 seats
6.27%
- **seats before3**: 8
- **seats3**: 10
- **seat change3**: 2
- **1data3**: 162,245
5.74%
  1.17 pp
- **2data3**: 226,757
7.86%
 1.59 pp
- **leader4**: David Seymour (New Zealand politician), David Seymour
- **leader since4**: 4 October 2014
- **party4**: ACT New Zealand
- **leaders seat4**: Epsom (New Zealand electorate), Epsom
- **last election4**: 1 seat
0.50%
- **seats before4**: 1
- **seats4**: 10
- **seat change4**: 9
- **1data4**: 97,697
3.46%
 2.45 pp
- **2data4**: 219,031
7.59%
 7.08 pp
- **image5**: <div aria-hidden="true" style="width:115px;"><span style="line-height:155px; vertical-align:center; text-align:center; font-family:serif; font-size: 30px; font-weight:bold;">m<span style="color: #d9001d;">a</span><span style="margin-left:-1ex;">‾</span><span style="color: #d9001d;margin-right:-2px;margin-left: -5px;">-</span><span>o</span><span style="color: #d9001d;margin-left: -16px;margin-right: 3px;">•</span>ri</span></div>
- **leader5**: John Tamihere
 Debbie Ngarewa-Packer
- **leader since5**: 15 April 2020
- **party5**: Māori Party
- **leaders seat5**: _Ran in Tāmaki Makaurau (lost)_
 Party-list proportional representation, List
- **last election5**: 0 seats
1.18%
- **seats before5**: 0
- **seats5**: 2
- **seat change5**: 2
- **1data5**: 60,837
2.15%
 0.04 pp
- **2data5**: 33,630
1.17%
 0.01 pp
- **leader6**: Winston Peters
- **leader since6**: 18 July 1993
- **party6**: New Zealand First
- **leaders seat6**: Party-list proportional representation, List _(lost)_
- **last election6**: 9 seats
7.20%
- **seats before6**: 9
- **seats6**: 0
- **seat change6**: 9
- **1data6**: 30,209
1.07%
 4.38 pp
- **2data6**: 75,020
2.60%
 4.60 pp
- **map image**: 2020 New Zealand general election - Results.svg
- **map size**: 450px
- **map caption**: Map of the general election. Electorate results are shown on the left, Māori electorate results in the centre, and the list members on the right.
- **title**: Prime Minister of New Zealand, Prime Minister
- **posttitle**: Subsequent Prime Minister
- **before election**: Jacinda Ardern
- **before party**: New Zealand Labour Party, Labour
- **after election**: Jacinda Ardern
- **after party**: New Zealand Labour Party, Labour
- **ongoing**: no