In all seven M\u0101ori electorates, the top party vote is for Labour.<\/p>\n
At the party\u2019s election night headquarters, ecstatic cheers erupted, with supporters waving flags and breaking into song when results showed Kaipara had a 4600-strong lead in the T\u0101maki Makaurau electorate.<\/p>\n
Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori co-leaders Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi. Photo \/ Mark Mitchell<\/p>\n
The mood quickly shifted from relaxed anticipation to jubilant celebration as the numbers rolled in.<\/p>\n
One supporter summed up the feeling in the room: \u201cFor Oriini, the election and this event are about the people. But the people are here for Oriini.\u201d<\/p>\n
Incumbent Labour MP Cushla Tangaere-Manuel is again leading the race in Ikaroa-R\u0101whiti.<\/p>\n
With a lead of 2924 votes over TPM candidate Haley Maxwell with 99% of the vote counted, the seat is certain to remain with Tangaere-Manuel.<\/p>\n
The Te Tai Tonga electorate has switched from TPM to Labour, with Mananui Ramden holding a strong lead of more than 2750 votes.<\/p>\n
Interestingly, the candidate coming in second place is not TPM, but the Green Party\u2019s Lisa Te Morenga. TPM candidate Lisa Marie Murch is in third place, with about 19.1% of the vote.<\/p>\n
In 2023, the seat was won by then TPM candidate T\u0101kuta Ferris, who later ran as an independent after being expelled from the party for controversial social media posts. <\/p>\n
Te Tai Tokerau\u2019s seat also shows a TPM win in Edwards.<\/p>\n
However, the Green Party\u2019s H\u016bhana Lyndon is a close second, with a difference of just over 460 votes. With special votes still to be counted, there is still an opportunity for that result to change.<\/p>\n
– Additional reporting by Lois Turei<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In all seven M\u0101ori electorates, the top party vote is for Labour. At the party\u2019s election night headquarters,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2246,3471,95,2245,5903,42678,1342,78,6721,2720,119254,111,43,139,69,4762,46800,15400,9214,320549,5909,56638,202,5348,1521,1886,20420,8690,1361,61,9438,5905,24688,102,87539],"class_list":["post-654058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-2246","tag-among","tag-and","tag-early","tag-election","tag-electorate","tag-five","tag-in","tag-labour","tag-mori","tag-moris","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-party","tag-pti","tag-push","tag-put","tag-resounding","tag-results","tag-seats","tag-seven","tag-showing","tag-strategic","tag-support","tag-supporters","tag-te","tag-that","tag-to","tag-trust","tag-vote","tag-voting","tag-with","tag-worked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654058","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=654058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}