Vote 2017: Maori Party may be out of parliament

The Maori Party may fail to win a seat in Parliament with all the Maori electorates looking on the verge of going red.

With 43 per cent of the votes counted, Labour is ahead in all seven of the Maori electorates.

The Maori Party's party vote is sitting at 1.1 per cent meaning they must win an electorate seat to remain in parliament.

Their best bet is in the Bay of Plenty where it is a tight race between Maori Party co-leader Te Ururoa Flavell and Labour's Tamati Coffey.

The Waiariki electorate has long been held by Flavell but it looks like he may not come out on top this time.

Labour's Tamati Coffey is just ahead on 5015 votes with 36 per cent of the vote counted. Flavell, who first won the seat in 2005, is just behind him on 4594.

In Tamaki Makaurau, Labour's Peeni Henare is on 3411 votes, almost 1500 votes ahead of the Maori Party's Shane Taurima who is on 1935.

Labour's Nanaia Mahuta is more than 4000 votes ahead of the Maori Party's Stanley Rahul Papa who is on 2581 votes in Hauraki-Waikato.

Maori Party co-leader Marama Fox is also trailing Labour's Meka Whaitiri in the Ikaroa-Rawhiti by almost 2000 votes.

In Te Tai Hauauru, Labour's Adrian Paki Rurawhe is more than 1000 votes ahead of the Maori Party's Howie Tamati.

Further South, Labour's Rino Tirikatene is soaring ahead on 5260 votes in the Te Tai Tonga electorate with former Green Party co-leader trailing by more than 2400 votes signalling the end of her political career. The Maori Party is even further behind with only 2320 votes.

Up north, Labour co-leader Kelvin Davis is soaring ahead in Te Tai Tokerau. He is almost 2000 votes ahead of Mana's Hone Harawira who is trying to win back the seat he lost in 2014 after he joined forces with Kim Dotcom's Internet Party.