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Labour/Alliance Have 59 Seats
The victory celebrations have begun. And Winston is back.
But With Winston and Jeanette Fitzsimons now ahead again in the Coromandel (174 ahead) and Tauranga (471 ahead – nearly closed) we have another picture.
On a night of contrasts.
Labour and the Alliance now have 59 seats. They need Peter Dunne or the Greens to form a govt.
MMP is a rollercoaster – but only because it is stupid.
Get rid of
the
threshold.
Alastair Thompson
Scoop Publisher
Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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