48th New Zealand Parliament
| 48th Parliament of New Zealand | |||||
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| Overview | |||||
| Legislative body | New Zealand Parliament | ||||
| Term | 7 November 2005 – 3 October 2008 | ||||
| Election | 2005 New Zealand general election | ||||
| Government | Fifth Labour Government | ||||
| House of Representatives | |||||
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| Members | 121 | ||||
| Speaker of the House | Margaret Wilson | ||||
| Leader of the House | Michael Cullen | ||||
| Prime Minister | Helen Clark | ||||
| Leader of the Opposition | John Key — Don Brash until 27 November 2006 | ||||
| Sovereign | |||||
| Monarch | Elizabeth II | ||||
| Governor-General | Anand Satyanand from 23 August 2006 — Silvia Cartwright until 4 August 2006 | ||||
The 48th New Zealand Parliament was a term of the Parliament of New Zealand. Its composition was determined at a general election held on 17 September 2005. The new parliament met for the first time on 7 November 2005. It was dissolved on 3 October 2008.[1]
The Labour Party and the Progressive Party, backed by New Zealand First and United Future, established a majority at the beginning the 48th Parliament. The Labour-led administration was in its third term. The National Party and ACT form the formal opposition to the government. Other non-government parties are the Greens (who promised to abstain on confidence and supply votes) and the Māori Party.
The 48th Parliament consists of 121 representatives. This represents an overhang of one seat, with the Māori Party having won one more electorate than its share of the vote would otherwise have given it. In total, sixty-nine of the MPs were chosen by geographical electorates, including seven Māori electorates. The remainder were elected by means of party-list proportional representation under the MMP electoral system.
Electorate boundaries for 48th Parliament
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Oath of office
[edit]All the Māori Party MPs tried to alter their Oath of office by adding references to the Treaty of Waitangi. They all had to retake their oaths.
Election result
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| Party | Party vote | Electorate vote | Seats | ||||||||
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| Votes | % | Change (pp) |
Votes | % | Change (pp) |
List | Electorate | Total | +/- | ||
| Labour | 935,319 | 41.10 |  0.16
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902,072 | 40.35 | 4.34
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19 | 31 | 50 | 2
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| National | 889,813 | 39.10 |  18.17
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902,874 | 40.38 | 9.84
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17 | 31 | 48 | 21
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| NZ First | 130,115 | 5.72 | 4.66
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78,117 | 3.49 | 0.49
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7 | 0 | 7 | 6
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| Green | 120,521 | 5.30 | 1.70
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92,164 | 4.12 | 1.23
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6 | 0 | 6 | 3
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| Māori Party | 48,263 | 2.12 | new | 75,076 | 3.36 | new | 0 | 4 | 4 | new | |
| United Future | 60,860 | 2.67 | 4.02
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63,486 | 2.84 | 1.52
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2 | 1 | 3 | 5
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| ACT | 34,469 | 1.51 | 5.63
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44,071 | 1.97 | 1.58
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1 | 1 | 2 | 7
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| Progressive | 26,441 | 1.16 | 0.54
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36,638 | 1.64 | 0.20
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0 | 1 | 1 | 1
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| Destiny | 14,210 | 0.62 | new | 17,608 | 0.79 | new | 0 | 0 | 0 | new | |
| Legalise Cannabis | 5,748 | 0.25 | 0.39
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2,601 | 0.12 | 0.05
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0 | 0 | 0 | 
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| Christian Heritage | 2,821 | 0.12 | 1.23
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1,296 | 0.06 | 1.99
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0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Alliance | 1,641 | 0.07 | 1.20
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1,901 | 0.09 | 1.60
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0 | 0 |
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| Family Rights | 1,178 | 0.05 | new | 1,045 | 0.05 | new | 0 | 0 | 0 | new | |
| Democrats | 1,079 | 0.05 | new | 565 | 0.03 | new | 0 | 0 | 0 | new | |
| Libertarianz | 946 | 0.04 | 0.04
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781 | 0.03 |
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0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Direct Democracy | 782 | 0.03 | new | 1,934 | 0.09 | new | 0 | 0 | new | ||
| 99 MP | 601 | 0.03 | new | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | new | |
| One NZ | 478 | 0.02 | 0.07
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214 | 0.01 | 0.12
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0 | 0 |
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| RONZ | 344 | 0.02 | new | 131 | 0.01 | new | 0 | 0 | 0 | new | |
| Unregistered parties | — | — | — | 1,466 | 0.07 | 0.12
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0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Independent | — | — | — | 11,829 | 0.53 | 0.22
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0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Valid votes | 2,275,629 | 98.77 | 0.07
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2,235,869 | 97.04 | 0.05
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| Informal votes | 10,561 | 0.46 | 0.04
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24,801 | 1.08 | 0.21
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| Disallowed votes | 17,815 | 0.77 | 0.03
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43,335 | 1.88 | 0.26
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| Total | 2,304,005 | 100 | 2,304,005 | 100 | 52 | 69 | 121 | 1
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| Eligible voters and Turnout | 2,847,396 | 80.92 | 3.94
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2,847,396 | 80.92 | 3.94
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Government: the third and final term of the Fifth Labour Government, in power from 1999 until 2008; minority coalition with Progressive Party since 2002
Prime Minister: Helen Clark (Labour) from 1999 to 2008
Governor General: Dame Silvia Cartwright to August 2006; Anand Satyanand August 2006–
Deputy Prime Minister: Michael Cullen (Labour) 2002–2008
Leader of the Opposition: Don Brash (National Party), to November 2006; John Key (National) November 2006 –
Speaker : Margaret Wilson (Labour)
Deputy Speaker: Clem Simich (National)
Assistant Speaker: Ross Robertson (Labour) and Ann Hartley (Labour)
Leader of the House: Michael Cullen (Labour)
Overview of seats
[edit]The table below shows the number of MPs in each party following the 2005 election and at dissolution:
| Affiliation | Members | ||
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| At 2002 election | At dissolution | ||
| Labour | 50 | 49 | |
| Progressive | 1 | 1 | |
| United Future CS | 3 | 2 | |
| NZ First CS | 7 | 7 | |
| Government total | 61 | 59 | |
| Green C | 6 | 6 | |
| Government with Cooperation total | 67 | 65 | |
| National | 48 | 48 | |
| ACT | 2 | 2 | |
| Māori Party | 4 | 4 | |
| Independent | 0 | 2 | |
| Opposition total | 54 | 56 | |
| Total |
121 | 121 | |
| Working Government majority [2] | 13 | 9 | |
Notes
- ^CS United Future and NZ First supported the Labour-Progressive coalition on a confidence and supply basis.
- 2 Both New Zealand First and United Future said they would not support a Labour-led coalition which included Greens in Cabinet posts. However, United Future indicated it could support a government where the Greens gave supply-and-confidence votes. The Working Government majority is calculated as all Government MPs less all other parties.
Members of the 48th Parliament
[edit]48th New Zealand Parliament - MPs elected to Parliament
List MPs are ordered by allocation as determined by the Chief Electoral Office[3] and the party lists.
Changes during parliamentary term
[edit]| Party | New MP | Term started | Seat | Previous MP | |
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| Green | Nándor Tánczos | 6 November 2005 | List | Rod Donald1 | |
| Labour | Charles Chauvel | 1 August 2006 | List | Jim Sutton | |
| National | Katrina Shanks | 7 February 2007 | List | Don Brash | |
| Labour | Lesley Soper | 15 February 2007 | List | Georgina Beyer | |
| NZ First | Dail Jones | 15 February 2008 | List | Brian Donnelly2 | |
| Labour | Louisa Wall | 4 March 2008 | List | Ann Hartley | |
| Labour | William Sio | 29 March 2008 | List | Dianne Yates | |
| Green | Russel Norman | 26 June 2008 | List | Nándor Tánczos | |
| National | (vacant) | 31 August 2008 | Rakaia | Brian Connell3 | |
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1 Rod Donald died before being sworn in as MP. | |||||
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Taito Phillip Field, Labour MP for Māngere, quit the Labour party after being threatened with expulsion on 16 February 2007. He continued to serve as an MP, and formed the New Zealand Pacific Party in January 2008. Gordon Copeland, a United Future list MP, left the party to become an independent MP in May 2007, and contested the 2008 election as a candidate for The Kiwi Party. | |||||
- Rod Donald, co-leader of the Green Party, died on 6 November 2005 before he was sworn in as a member of the 48th Parliament. He was replaced by the next person on the Green Party's list, former MP Nándor Tánczos, on 16 November.
- Jim Sutton, a Labour list MP, retired from politics on 31 July 2006. He was replaced by the next person on the Labour Party's list, Charles Chauvel.
- Don Brash, a National list MP and former leader of the National Party, retired from Parliament on 7 February 2007. He was replaced by the next person on the National Party's list, Katrina Shanks.
- Georgina Beyer, a Labour list MP, announced her retirement on 15 December 2006, and officially resigned from Parliament when it resumed on 13 February 2007. On 20 February she was replaced by the next person on the Labour Party's list, former MP Lesley Soper.
- Taito Phillip Field, Labour MP for Mangere, quit the Labour party after being threatened with expulsion on 16 February 2007. He continued to serve as an MP, and formed the New Zealand Pacific Party in January 2008.
- Gordon Copeland, a United Future list MP, left the party to become an independent MP in May 2007, and contested the 2008 election as a candidate for The Kiwi Party.
- Ann Hartley, a Labour list MP, was elected to the North Shore City Council in the 2007 local body elections. She left Parliament when it resumed in 2008, and was replaced by the next person on the Labour list, Louisa Wall, a former Silver Ferns netballer, on 4 February 2008.
- Brian Donnelly, a New Zealand First MP, resigned from Parliament from 12 February 2008, and was replaced by Dail Jones on 15 February 2008. Donnelly was appointed as New Zealand's High Commissioner to the Cook Islands.[4]
- Dianne Yates, a Labour list MP, stood unsuccessfully for the Hamilton City Council in the 2007 local body elections. She resigned as an MP on 29 March 2008[5] and was replaced by William Sio on 1 April 2008 as the next person on Labour's list.[6]
- Nándor Tánczos resigned from Parliament and was replaced by Green Party co-leader Russel Norman on 27 June 2008.[7]
Seating plan
[edit]Start of term
[edit]The chamber is in a horseshoe-shape.[8]
End of term
[edit]The chamber is in a horseshoe-shape.[9]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Parliament to be dissolved". Otago Daily Times. 1 November 2008. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
- ^ "2005 GENERAL ELECTION – OFFICIAL RESULTS AND STATISTICS". ElectionResults.govt.nz. Electoral Commission. 21 October 2020. Archived from the original on 17 January 2020. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
- ^ "Actual Quotients for Party List Seat Allocation". Retrieved 24 August 2011.
- ^ "New List MP For New Zealand First Party". Scoop.co.nz. 15 February 2008. Retrieved 15 February 2008.
- ^ New Zealand Parliament (1 April 2008). "Resignations: Dianne Yates, NZ Labour". TheyWorkForYou.co.nz. Archived from the original on 30 June 2008. Retrieved 7 June 2008.
- ^ New Zealand Parliament (1 April 2008). "List Member Vacancy". TheyWorkForYou.co.nz. Archived from the original on 15 May 2010. Retrieved 7 June 2008.
- ^ "Greens co-leader now an MP". The Dominion Post. 27 June 2008. Archived from the original on 14 November 2012.
- ^ "Debating Chamber" (PDF). www.decisionmaker.co.nz. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 February 2006. Retrieved 17 November 2005.
- ^ "Debating Chamber". www.parliament.nz. Retrieved 1 April 2008.