2026 NZ election results: Interactive maps

Voting data, visualised (and updating as the results roll in).

Overall Results

Candidate Votes

Click on the chart styles below to switch between the zoomed city map, the hexmap, and geographic map. More details on how the hexmap works can be found below.

Party Votes

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How the hexmap works

In previous elections, we’ve explained how the traditional geographic map is useful but can be misleading. Large rural electorates are visually emphasized, and the densely-populated urban areas are obscured, even though they all contain about the same number of people. For example, all 32 Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch electorates could comfortably fit into the Southland or West Coast-Tasman electorates.

A hexmap can give us a better impression of how New Zealand votes by turning the 71 electorates into sets of 5 equally-sized hexagons. This map reflects that the electorates have roughly the same political power. It makes it easier to see how our communities are balanced, and how they compare to the country as a whole.

The map below lets you switch between three views: 

• Geographic Map (showing the electorates as they are); 
• Hexmap (to compare each electorate at the same size); and 
• Zoomed Cities Map (zooming in on the population centers).

You can toggle between the geographic map and the hexmap to follow how your electorate is resized and repositioned. The hexmap tries to keep each electorate in a similar position relative to its neighbours, while retaining the general shape of the country. (NB: The electorates in yellow contain cities with more than 30,000 people, as best as I can ascertain from Statistics New Zealand).