Maximise your votes by splitting them
Split your votes. Party vote NZ First or ACT. Electorate National. That is how one ballot helps put two Coalition MPs in the House. On current polling a National party vote elects no extra MPs.
Party vote
NZ First or ACT Whichever partner you prefer. The page does not pick. On current polling this vote would be wasted on National.Electorate vote
National The candidate most likely to win the seat for the Coalition.MMP gives you two votes. They do different jobs. These are the rules of the system.
A National party vote elects no extra Coalition MP. The electorates have already filled its share. Maximise your votes by splitting them: party-vote NZ First or ACT.
On the latest Taxpayers’ Union–Curia poll National is entitled to 35 of the 120, treating Opportunity’s 4.8% as 5%. It currently holds 44 electorates. Hold those seats and National takes no list MPs — a nine-seat overhang. Extra National party votes refill a filled quota. They do not add a Coalition MP.
Move the party vote to a partner still taking list seats. That is how one ballot helps put two Coalition MPs in the House.
On current polling a National party vote elects zero MPs. A protest vote for a non-parliamentary party is the same. Party-vote NZ First or ACT to keep the left out.
Party vote
National NZ First / ACT
Electorate vote
NZ First / ACT National
The House
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These are 2023 candidate votes, not percentages. The National seats with the smallest winning margin are at risk — lose those and there is no overhang. Winnable seats follow. Then every other seat by how close National is, smallest margin first.
“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 ... and give their party vote to either ACT or New Zealand First, the right would be unstoppable.”
Don Brash X
“You have two votes and you’d be a mug to not use them intelligently.”
David Seymour X
“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
“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
“When the other side are using certain tactics to skew the results you’re going to have to react. You don’t just carry on with previous ways as if it doesn’t matter.”
Winston Peters X
“Party vote ACT or NZ First. Electorate vote National. That’s a straightforward message. I think voters deserve more credit.”
Nick Mowbray X
Explainers on the overhang, wasted votes, and using the two votes differently.
Their 2026 guide to parties and candidates, with an explainer on the two votes and the wasted vote.
Electorate vote National. Party vote ACT or NZ First.
A slider that moves National’s party vote to NZ First and ACT, and shows the seats.