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Labour's MPs set sights on Cunliffe
A former Labour Party president believes Labour's dismal election result will prove fatal for David Cunliffe.
A former Labour Party president believes Labour's dismal election result will prove fatal for David Cunliffe.
The text of the letter David Cunliffe sent to Labour members, supporters and affiliated unions on Saturday night, after the party's shocking election result.
Jason Ede, a former Beehive staffer in the PM's office who was widely quoted in the Dirty Politics book, has quit his position with the National Party.
Up on last time, but one of the worst voter turnouts this century.
Green MP-in-waiting James Shaw admits he didn't appeal to the protester-activist core of the party when he showed up to meetings in a suit and a CV that included global firms HSBC and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
If loyalty to the leader is highly valued, it's not hard to see why new New Zealand First MP Fletcher Tabueau rocketed his way up the party list.
This election has seen the highest ever number of Pasifika candidates voted in as members of parliament.
Labour has clung on to its three Christchurch seats, but is puzzled and dismayed at National's clean sweep of party votes in the earthquake-battered city.
The Green Party is vowing to keep its ties with Labour and has no plans to dramatically change tack by aligning with National or returning to its roots as primarily an environmental party.
Five things for business to take on board while John Key relishes his victory and forms his next Government.
Mike Hosking writes: National had the best case. The best project to present. The best story to tell. The best numbers to back them.
Labour has lost four list MPs and, critically for the party that aimed to have a 45 per cent female caucus, three were women.
The election success of National has weakened the bargaining power of their support parties.
John Key's achievement on Saturday is historically remarkable.
The Herald-DigiPoll survey came closest to predicting the final election result, an analysis of the four major polls shows.
The dreamlike quality of the 2014 election was only confirmed yesterday when New Zealand woke to discover that everything was pretty much unchanged.
Maori Party co-leader Te Ururoa Flavell says he is not ruling out extending an olive branch to Mana leader Hone Harawira - but won't say if he could work with him again.
Just over half the available voters in the Maori electorates had voted by election day.
Former television man Tamati Coffey's first politics bid may have fallen short, but that doesn't mean he'll be returning to the small screen.
Ill-discipline, mini-scandals and Kim Dotcom's silence during The Moment of Truth damaged Internet-Mana's vote and may yet see the end of the Internet Party.
The new Parliament is a melting pot of ethnicities and religions - but one thing has stayed the same, it's a male-dominated House of Representatives.
John Key yesterday began his third term as Prime Minister with a strict warning to National MPs and ministers: don't get arrogant.
Jamie Whyte has conceded his future as the Act Party's leader outside of Parliament is uncertain and says the party's brand is "tarnished".
This is a horrible column to write. (Gets up to make a cup of coffee. Instant coffee! De-activates Facebook page.
For the changes in the Labour's rules which David Cunliffe was party to and which he promoted in order to undermine Shearer could end up destroying his own leadership.
Rugby was the winner on the day. Well, Israel Dagg was.
Mumbai born and educated New Zealand First MP-in-waiting Mahesh Bindra says he is living proof the party and its leader Winston Peters are not anti-immigration and anti-Asian.
New Zealand financial markets are expected to firm when they open today after the National Party secured the first ever outright win.