Significance of election results:
- Ardern’s party has won a majority, the biggest victory for the Labour Party in over 50 years.
- This will also be the first time that a party will be governing alone since New Zealand moved to the MMP (mixed-member proportional representation) electoral system in 1996.
- With nearly 50 per cent of the vote, the party will get more than the 61 seats required for a parliamentary majority.
