Rotorua's most blue and red suburbs

Which parts of Rotorua voted more or less for each party? Photo/File

A Rotorua Daily Post analysis has revealed where the most blue and red parts of the city and electorate are.

Breaking down results from advanced and election day voting results, the figures show which suburbs voted more for which party, compared to the average across the electorate.

Rotorua was more blue than the rest of the country.

National's proportion of the party vote was 50 per cent in Rotorua, 4 per cent more than it received nationally. Labour took 31 per cent, 4.8 per cent less than nationwide.

New Zealand First picked up 2.7 per cent to make 10.2 in Rotorua, and the Greens dropped 2.1 on its New Zealand result to receive 3.8 per cent in Rotorua.

National received more votes at an overwhelming majority of voting places - winning 55, to Labour's 13.

The Rotorua Daily Post has analysed which voting places favoured particular parties more than their average across the electorate.

People could cast their vote anywhere in the electorate, or even outside of it. As such, this is not a definitive picture of which suburbs vote for which parties, but an indication. Special votes, which make up around 15 per cent of the total, are still yet to be counted.

Elected MP for Rotorua, National's Todd McClay, said he was extremely pleased with the overall result but cautioned against putting too much weight on the results of individual booths.

"I am grateful to people in the Rotorua electorate for their support."

Labour's unsuccessful Rotorua candidate, Ben Sandford, said he was proud of the campaign he ran, and he's already learnt some things for next time around.

"Obviously we'd be much more pleased if we'd won the election and received more votes," he said.

"[The figures] are reasonably in line with how we were thinking about it and where our strong points are in Rotorua. It lines up with the Labour vote that we believe is out there and what we were targeting in that sense.

"I'm really proud of the campaign we put together, and I think we did a good job. But obviously moving forward, if we want to win next time we have to do better and we have to convince more people to vote for us.

Labour's successful Waiariki candidate, Tamati Coffey, said he was proud of support he had received in smaller towns, particularly Kawerau.

"Obviously having support in Kawerau feels really good. I went there quite a few times on the campaign trail. Kawerau I think has been largely forgotten, that's from the people there on the ground. They were looking for a champion, somebody to help fly the flag for them," Mr Coffey said.

"A lot of the small towns feel quite forgotten by this Government. The Muruparas, the Kaingaroas, the Opotikis . . . Those places aren't feeling the economic growth the Government constantly boasts about."

Te Ururoa Flavell, former Maori Party MP who unsuccessfully ran in Waiariki, said he hadn't yet had a chance to review his campaign.

"I have yet to have the opportunity to go through in depth the results from each polling station and will wait until special votes have been counted and incorporated into the final tally before I do so.

"A review of the campaign will look into where our support was strong and where it was weak and investigate the possible reasons behind that."