{"id":648955,"date":"2026-11-02T17:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T17:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/648955\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T17:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T17:50:16","slug":"quarter-of-enrolled-voters-have-already-cast-their-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/648955\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarter of enrolled voters have already cast their ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"

The number of votes cast so far has surged past levels seen at the same point during the 2023 election.<\/p>\n

Electoral Commission data shows 913,762 people have voted as of yesterday – about a quarter (24 percent) of those enrolled.<\/p>\n

That is compared to 712,192 on the equivalent date in 2023, which was just under a fifth (19 percent) of those enrolled.<\/p>\n

The daily vote count has surpassed the 2023 election each day since booths opened.<\/p>\n

But the result so far is nowhere near 2020, when 1.16 million people had voted at this stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of votes cast so far has surged past levels seen at the same point during the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-648955","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\/648955","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=648955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}