Talk:Electoral reform in New Zealand

Needing to be added
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 * 1) Local government needs to be expanded substantially
 * 2) More on how it developed through the 1987 and 1990 election campaigns.
 * 3) Effects on elections in New Zealand
 * 4) Development of/changes to the party system under MMP
 * 5) results of referendum in full
 * 6) pictures of ballot papers (in order to one day, maybe, get featured article on Portal:Politics

--LeftyG 07:42, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

This article should cover the influence MMP has had on NZ. Will work on it sometime soon.--Midnighttonight please tell me off for procrastinating on my essay! 22:45, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
 * There have been a lot of articles covering MMP and the change in the Herald recently for obvious reaons. Some of them should be useful. For example, I believe Social Credit won 21% of the vote but only 2 seats in 1981 (we only mentioned Labour-National dispropriatinality) Nil Einne 18:01, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Anyone studying NZ Issues, including me, should be Ashamed:
Why has NOONE mentioned the planned Bill for this year to reform election spending, etc?
 * That's your department. Please add a section to the most appropriate article. That may be New Zealand elections or Electoral system of New Zealand rather than this article. Add a cross reference from 2005_New_Zealand_election_funding_controversy.- gadfium 19:48, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Category
Could someone who knows how make Category:Referendums in New Zealand a subcategory of "Referendums by Country" please as NZ is one of the few countries missing Hugo999 (talk) 12:56, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Done. It's just a matter of editing the category page.- gadfium 05:11, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:55, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

To Review
Given the recent election, this sentence should probably reviewed: "The number of political parties was expected to fall[citation needed] (as happened in Germany after their adoption of MMP), but has in fact increased." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.236.128.197 (talk) 12:25, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

1992 Referendum results
I'm not sure if the vote numbers themselves are wrong, but the percentages certainly are - for the second part of the 1992 referendum. The real results can be found on the EC website (http://www.elections.org.nz/elections/referendum/referendums.html) and show: SM - 5.6% STV - 17.4% MMP - 70.5% PV - 6.6%

I have no wikipedia editing knowledge but just thought I should make this known! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.252.24.130 (talk) 16:45, 13 April 2012 (UTC)


 * That website is rounding to one decimal place, and we are rounding to two decimal places. Other than that, we seem to be giving the same figures in the "valid" column. We also present a second set of figures in the "total" column which take into account the 96000-odd invalid or blank votes.- gadfium 22:47, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Combining electoral system article with electoral reform article
This article on electoral reform in New Zealand could be combined with the electoral system of New Zealand. There is no need for separate articles about what is basically the same topic.Offender9000 21:17, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

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Good source
Here's a good source for article expansion. The author has studied the 70 electoral reforms that happened between 1970 and 2020.  Schwede 66  00:27, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

Split of referendum sections

 * I strongly support the split of the referendum sections into their own pages as there is sufficient content and notability for them to have their own pages. Gusfriend (talk) 03:11, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
 * There are already stand-alone articles 2011 New Zealand voting system referendum and Results of the 2011 New Zealand voting system referendum. I see some duplication and no link from these articles to this article.
 * Oppose if it means there will be no overview page for lemma Electoral reform in New Zealand, Support if it means both keeping this overview page and adding a separate page for 1992 referendum. HudecEmil (talk) 21:21, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose I am Happy the article would stay the same way with splitting up the article would create more confusion. Villian Factman (talk) 15:15, 6 September 2022 (UTC)