page_title: 2014 New Zealand general election
section_title: Fourth week: 8–14 September
hierarchical_section_title: 2014 New Zealand general election / Campaigning / Campaigning timeline / Fourth week: 8–14 September
caption_attribution_description: Grant Robertston of Labour (left) and Paul Foster-Bell (centre) of the National Party.
context_page_description: The 2014 New Zealand general election took place on Saturday 20 September 2014 to determine the membership of the 51st New Zealand Parliament.
  Voters elected 121 members to the House of Representatives, with 71 from single-member electorates and 49 from party lists. Since 1996, New Zealand has used the Mixed Member Proportional voting system, giving voters two votes: one for a political party and one for their local electorate MP. The party vote decides how many seats each party gets in the new Parliament; a party is entitled to a share of the seats if it receives 5% of the party vote or wins an electorate. Normally, the House has 120 seats but extra seats may be added where there is an overhang, caused by a party winning more electorates than seats it is entitled to. The one-seat overhang from the 50th Parliament will remain for the 51st Parliament, after United Future won one electorate when their 0.22% party vote did not entitle them to any seats.
  A total of 3,140,417 people were registered to vote in the election; around 92.6% of all eligible New Zealanders.
context_section_description: 8 September – An expletive-filled email is sent by Mana Party leader Hone Harawira to party members. In it, Harawira claims the Internet Party is putting too many resources into promoting cannabis law reform rather than into Mana's flagship policy of providing breakfast and lunch to students at low socio-economic decile schools.
  10 September
  The TV3 leaders' debate between John Key and David Cunliffe takes place.
  The Electoral Commission announces it will not allow photography in polling booths, after several incidents where advance voters had taken selfies with their completed ballot paper or behind voting screens and posted them to social media. Posting an image of a completed ballot paper within 3 days of election day is illegal, and can attract a $20,000 fine.
caption: Paul Foster-Bell speaking at the Aro Valley candidates meeting, held in Wellington on 8 September
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