{"id":655319,"date":"2026-11-09T04:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T04:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/655319\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T04:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T04:46:12","slug":"te-pati-maori-told-supporters-to-party-vote-labour-or-green-what-did-they-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/655319\/","title":{"rendered":"Te Pati M\u0101ori told supporters to party vote Labour or Green. What did they do?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The biggest party vote leaps for the Greens were Waiariki (577.9%), Hauraki-Waikato (552.6%), Ikaroa-R\u0101whiti (400.9%), and Te Tai Hau\u0101uru (372.3%).<\/p>\n

Ikaroa-R\u0101whiti is notable as Labour candidate Cushla Tangaere-Manuel won in 2023 and 2026.<\/p>\n

Labour candidate Mananui Ramsden also won Te Tai Tonga from incumbent T\u0101kuta Ferris, but Labour\u2019s party vote in the seat barely moved. The Green party vote, by contrast, more than doubled.<\/p>\n

Labour\u2019s party vote increased the most, percentage wise, in Hauraki-Waikato, where it grew 15.6%, about 1800 more party votes than in 2023. The seat was retained by Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke.<\/p>\n

Labour\u2019s party vote actually went down in Te Tai Tokerau, where Labour candidate Willow-Jean Prime came third in a tight contest. <\/p>\n

Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori candidate Aperahama Edwards currently holds a 436-vote lead over Green MP H\u016bhana Lyndon.<\/p>\n

Overall party votes for Labour (90,271) still exceeded the Greens (67,267). <\/p>\n

Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori still won just over 10,000 party votes, despite telling supporters not to vote for them in this way.<\/p>\n

The split-vote strategy has helped create a four-seat overhang for the left bloc of Labour, the Greens and Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s because Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori\u2019s party vote (0.57%) entitled it to one seat in Parliament, but it has five seats after winning five of the seven M\u0101ori seats.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s impossible to know how much of the Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori party vote might have fallen without the split-vote strategy, after the fallout including Mariameno Kapa-Kingi and T\u0101kuta Ferris becoming independent<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also possible that those issues wouldn\u2019t have hurt the party vote by much. <\/p>\n

Kapa-Kingi and Ferris did not come close to keeping their electorates, with Kapa-Kingi fourth in Te Tai Tokerau and Ferris third in Te Tai Tonga.<\/p>\n

The Greens have long said they have strong policies upholding Te Tiriti o Waitangi, even though they only received 17,488 party votes in 2023.<\/p>\n

This was less than a third of the total number of party votes for Labour and Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori respectively. <\/p>\n

Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson said Green volunteers reached more than four times as many M\u0101ori voters, by phone and through door-knocking, this election compared to 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat massive grass-roots campaign is part of what you\u2019re seeing in that massive increase [in party votes], but it\u2019s also built on decades or work and fantastic M\u0101ori candidates.\u201d <\/p>\n

Labour MP Willie Jackson, co-chair of Labour\u2019s M\u0101ori caucus, said he was pleased Labour increased its party vote support in the M\u0101ori seats.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s obvious that the majority of the Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori party vote transferred to the Greens,\u201d he told the Herald. <\/p>\n

\u201cOur support held and actually increased in some of the seats. <\/p>\n

\u201cI was pleased we are still the most popular party with M\u0101ori winning the party vote in every seat, and also doing well and leading with the M\u0101ori vote in the general seats too. Often that is overlooked.\u201d <\/p>\n

Derek Cheng is a senior journalist who started at the Herald in 2004. He has worked several stints in the press gallery team and is a former deputy political editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The biggest party vote leaps for the Greens were Waiariki (577.9%), Hauraki-Waikato (552.6%), Ikaroa-R\u0101whiti (400.9%), and Te Tai…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17248,42344,183475,1308,18432,6309,71,129,2518,23746,6721,101,130,2720,111,43,139,69,691,4762,162601,56638,656,20420,8690,131,8229,61,6859,5905,7246,316885,6923],"class_list":["post-655319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-17248","tag-42344","tag-benefited","tag-compared","tag-did","tag-do","tag-from","tag-gaining","tag-green","tag-greens","tag-labour","tag-left","tag-more","tag-mori","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-or","tag-party","tag-pati","tag-seats","tag-strategy","tag-supporters","tag-te","tag-than","tag-they","tag-to","tag-told","tag-vote","tag-votes","tag-votesplitting","tag-what"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655319","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=655319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}