Overseas Special Votes - Party Vote Split | NZ Election 2008
The official voting statistics for the NZ General Election 2008 doesn’t report party vote totals for the Overseas Special Votes.
However, it’s possible to obtain the overseas party votes from the per electorate polling place reports. I wrote some Ruby code that grabs the per electorate numbers and sums them per party.
Here’s a pie chart showing the overseas party vote percentages:
National won a majority (51.0%) of the overseas party votes. The Greens overseas vote percentage (13.8%) was more than double the percentage of votes they received overall (6.7%). The other newer parties and Labour received a lower proportion of the overseas vote than they did of the overall vote.
For comparison, here’s a pie-chart of the overall election result party vote percentages:
Only 32,461 valid overseas special party votes have been recorded. Here’s the count of overseas party votes by party:
- National Party: 16,548
- Labour Party: 8,782
- Green Party: 4,487
- ACT New Zealand: 963
- Māori Party: 437
- New Zealand First Party: 405
- United Future: 261
- Jim Anderton’s Progressive: 139
- Kiwi Party: 129
- Family Party: 71
- The Bill and Ben Party: 43
- New Zealand Pacific Party: 42
- Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party: 40
- Libertarianz: 39
- Alliance: 27
- Democrats for Social Credit: 25
- RAM - Residents Action Movement: 9
- The Republic of New Zealand Party: 8
- Workers Party: 6
Data source: New Zealand Ministry of Justice and Chief Electoral Office Voting Statistics from the General Election held on 8 November 2008
