New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Party overwhelmingly won the country’s general election on Saturday.
With a quarter of the vote still to be counted, Labour has 49 per cent of the vote and its ally the Green Party has 7.6 per cent, with Collins’ National Party holding 27 per cent. With two-thirds of the vote counted, the Labour Party was forecast to take around 64 seats in the 120-member parliament.
Ardern thanked New Zealanders for delivering her party a landslide general election victory on the back of her government’s success fighting the Covid-19 pandemic.
She said “Thank you to the many people who gave us their vote, who trusted us to continue leading New Zealand’s recovery,”