{"id":641697,"date":"2026-10-26T10:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/641697\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T10:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:24:10","slug":"watch-live-nationals-luxon-speaks-to-media-after-casting-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/641697\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch live: National&#8217;s Luxon speaks to media after casting ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">National leader Christopher Luxon has cast his ballot and will speak to media this afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Luxon is speaking from Beachlands in Auckland at around 1.20pm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Several party leaders have been out on the campaign trail casting their votes today. Labour&#8217;s Chris Hipkins cast his vote in the Remutaka electorate this morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/10\/25\/election-live-qiulae-wong-to-appear-on-qa-as-campaign-enters-final-stretch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow today&#8217;s election campaign developments live here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National leader Christopher Luxon has cast his ballot and will speak to media this afternoon. Luxon is speaking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11508,42,11507,43,40,38,41,39,270122],"class_list":["post-641697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-christopher-luxon","tag-headlines","tag-national-party","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-vote-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641697","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=641697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}