{"id":617278,"date":"2026-10-01T09:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T09:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/617278\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T09:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T09:24:09","slug":"new-zealand-parliament-dissolved-as-november-election-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/617278\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Parliament dissolved as November election approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Based on the poll, Labour and National are tied at 28 percent, while the Greens are at 16 percent and could win 19 seats.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">According to New Zealand&#8217;s election laws, additional seats can be added to the 120-seat parliament when a party wins more electorate seats than its share of the nationwide party vote would otherwise entitle it to.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Overseas voting begins on October 21, with advance voting opening on October 26. Rival political parties are focusing on the cost of living, economic management and public services in campaigning.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">The last general election in New Zealand took place in October 2023. The maximum term of the New Zealand Parliament is three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Based on the poll, Labour and National are tied at 28 percent, while the Greens are at 16&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-617278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}