MICHAEL BLEBY: With magnificent Ardern gone, her party is back in the trenches
New Zealand’s new leader will try to shore up support and hang on to as many marginal voters as he can
24 January 2023 - 05:00
There is a number that must be top of mind for New Zealand’s governing Labour Party right now: 163. This is the margin — the individual number of votes — that gave the party’s Northland candidate, Willow-Jean Prime, victory over her conservative National Party rival in the country’s last general election in 2020.
Prime took the agriculture-focused constituency on the northern tip of the country’s North Island by this razor-thin margin out of 45,830 votes counted. ..
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