Don't know if any one mentioned it thus far but the NZ election took place
with the expected result that the centre left emerged triumphant.
Full results are at http://www.electionresults.govt.nz/partystatus.html but
the guts of the matter is as follows;

Labour, (centre left) 38.9% vote 52 seats
Alliance, (left) 7.8%  vote 11 seats
National, (centre right) 30.7 % vote 41 seats
ACT, (right) 7 % vote 9 seats
Greens,  (hippy tree huggers) 4.9% no seats
NZ first, (centre popularist) 4.3% vote 6 seats.

So we get a Labour/Alliance coalition with 63 seats out of 120. You might
note that NZ first got less votes than the greens but gets six seats, this
is due to NZ first winning an electorate seat and hence not being subject to
the 5% cut off. The Greens might still get into parliament as not all votes
cast get counted on election night (people voting outside their electorate
etc) so if the greens can scrap up another 0.1% of the total vote or win a
seat (which they are close to doing) then there will be some change round in
the allocation of seats but the Labour/Alliance coalition will remain
victorious ( the greens would probably support them at any rate).
There where many sad little tory faces on the telly as this result became
clear - ha fucking ha, with any luck its going to be a long miserable time
for the new right.
cheers 
Bill Cochrane



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