2023 New Zealand general election

The **2023 New Zealand general election** was held on 14 October 2023 to determine the 54th Parliament of New Zealand. Voters elected 120 members to the New Zealand House of Representatives under the mixed-member proportional (MMP) voting system, a proportional representation system in which 72 members were elected from single-member electorates and 48 members from closed party lists.

The incumbent centre-left Labour majority government, led by Chris Hipkins, tried to win a third term in government. However, they were defeated by the centre-right National Party, led by Opposition Leader Christopher Luxon, in a landslide. National will need support from the ACT party (and possibly also New Zealand First) to form government.

At the 2020 election, the centre-left Labour Party, led by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, won an outright majority in the House. The main opponents to the Labour government is the centre-right National Party, led by Christopher Luxon, and the right-wing ACT party, led by David Seymour.

On 19 January 2023, Ardern announced she would resign as Labour leader and prime minister before 7 February.

## Other websites

- Electoral Commission website

## Infobox (election)

- **election name**: 2023 New Zealand general election
- **country**: New Zealand
- **type**: parliamentary
- **previous election**: 2020 New Zealand general election
- **previous year**: 2020
- **outgoing members**: 53rd New Zealand Parliament
- **election date**: 14 October 2023
- **next election**: Next New Zealand general election
- **next year**: _Next_
- **elected members**: 54th New Zealand Parliament
- **seats for election**: All 123 seats in the New Zealand House of Representatives, House of Representatives, including three Overhang seat, overhang seats.
- **majority seats**: 62
- **opinion polls**: Opinion polling for the 2023 New Zealand general election
- **turnout**: 2,883,412 (78.2%;  4.04 Percentage point, pp)
- **ongoing**: no
- **leader1**: Christopher Luxon
- **party1**: New Zealand National Party
- **leader since1**: 2021 New Zealand National Party leadership election, 30 November 2021
- **leaders seat1**: Botany (New Zealand electorate), Botany
- **last election1**: 33 seats, 25.58%
- **seats before1**: 34
- **seats needed1**: 28
- **seats1**: **48**
- **seat change1**: 14
- **1data1**: **984,148**
**43.45%**
 9.32
- **2data1**: **1,085,016**
**38.06%**
 12.48
- **leader2**: Chris Hipkins
- **leader since2**: 2023 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, 22 January 2023
- **party2**: New Zealand Labour Party
- **leaders seat2**: Remutaka (New Zealand electorate), Remutaka
- **last election2**: 65 seats, 50.01%
- **seats before2**: 62
- **seats2**: 34
- **seat change2**: 28
- **1data2**: 692,832
31.23%
 16.84
- **2data2**: 767,236
26.91%
 23.10
- **image3**:
- **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**: 10 seats, 7.86%
- **seats before3**: 9
- **seats needed3**: 51
- **seats3**: 15
- **seat change3**: 6
- **1data3**: 160,200
8.26%
 2.52
- **2data3**: 330,883
11.60%
 3.74
- **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**: 10 seats, 7.59%
- **seats before4**: 10
- **seats needed4**: 52
- **seats4**: 11
- **seat change4**: 1
- **1data4**: 118,953
5.45%
 1.99
- **2data4**: 246,409
8.64%
 1.05
- **leader5**: Winston Peters
- **leader since5**: 18 July 1993
- **party5**: New Zealand First
- **leaders seat5**: Party-list proportional representation, List
- **last election5**: 0 seats, 2.60%
- **seats before5**: 0
- **seats needed5**: 60
- **seats5**: 8
- **seat change5**: 8
- **1data5**: 64,797
2.80%
 1.73
- **2data5**: 173,425
6.08%
 3.48
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- **leader6**: Debbie Ngarewa-Packer
Rawiri Waititi
- **leader since6**: 15 April 2020
28 October 2020
- **party6**: Māori Party, Te Pāti Māori
- **leaders seat6**: Te Tai Hauāuru
_(won seat)_
Waiariki (New Zealand electorate), Waiariki
- **last election6**: 2 seats, 1.17%
- **seats before6**: 2
- **seats needed6**: 59
- **seats6**: 6
- **seat change6**: 4
- **1data6**: 76,421
3.89%
 1.73
- **2data6**: 87,973
3.08%
 1.91
- **1blank**: Electorate vote
- **2blank**: Party vote
- **title**: Prime Minister of New Zealand, Prime Minister
- **posttitle**: Subsequent Prime Minister
- **before election**: Chris Hipkins
- **before party**: New Zealand Labour Party
- **after election**: Christopher Luxon
- **after party**: New Zealand National Party