2026 general election · Saturday 7 November

Maximise your votes by splitting them

Two Votes,
Two MPs.

Split your votes. Party vote NZ First or ACT. Electorate National. That is how one ballot helps put two Coalition MPs in the House. A National party vote is a wasted vote.

Party vote

NZ First or ACT Whichever partner you prefer. The page does not pick. Do not waste this on National, or on a protest vote for a non-parliamentary party.

Electorate vote

National The candidate most likely to win the seat for the Coalition — except Epsom and Tāmaki, which stay ACT.
Why this works Your electorate

If you party-vote National, you waste that vote.

It elects no extra Coalition MP. Maximise your votes by splitting them: party-vote NZ First or ACT. A protest vote for a non-parliamentary party elects nobody either.

ZERO LIST SEATS for National is the point

On the latest Taxpayers’ Union–Curia poll National is entitled to 40 of the 120. On the 2026 notional map it holds 45 electorates. If it holds those seats it takes no list MPs and a five-seat overhang. Extra National party votes do not grow the Coalition. They just refill a quota the electorates have already filled. That is a wasted vote.

Maximise your votes by splitting them. Move the party vote to a partner who is still taking list seats. Parliament grows only if National’s electorate haul exceeds its party-vote entitlement — an overhang. Other parties keep their share of the 120.

Party-vote National and you waste it. A protest vote for a non-parliamentary party is the same dead end: nobody new gets in. Party-vote NZ First or ACT to keep the left out.

Projection · polls + overhangs

—National (poll)
—Probable overhang
—Tactical overhang
—Coalition

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What your electorate vote does

These are 2023 candidate votes, not percentages. The natural overhang is the National seats with the smallest winning margin — lose those and there is no overhang. Labour and Green seats follow, tightest first. Then every other seat, grouped by the party that holds it.

* Name or notional winner changed on the 2026 boundaries. Vote counts are the official 2023 Electoral Commission results (via Wikipedia’s cited electorate boxes) on 2023 maps. 2026 names and notional winners: Tally Room. NZ First/ACT show 0 where they stood no candidate. Port Waikato had no general-election electorate vote. Māori electorates are omitted. A pinned list in data/site.json can raise specific seats later.

“The centre-right could win this election comfortably. If all the people that wanted the coalition government back in power voted for National with their electorate vote (except for Epson and Tamaki) and give their party vote to either ACT or New Zealand First, the right would be unstopable.”
“You have two votes and you’d be a mug to not use them intelligently.”

David Seymour X

The Platform with Michael Laws, August 2026

“An electorate vote for National plus a party vote for Act or New Zealand First seems the way forward to return a coalition of centre-right leaning parties.”

Peter Williams Substack

17 August 2026

“Vote National for your local person, they’re the ones most likely to win the electorate seat. Then use your party vote for the party you actually like most, ACT or NZ First.”

Chantelle Baker X

15 August 2026