46th_New_Zealand_Parliament

46th New Zealand Parliament

46th New Zealand Parliament

Term of the Parliament of New Zealand


The 46th New Zealand Parliament was a term of the New Zealand Parliament. Its composition was determined by the 1999 election, and it sat until the 2002 election.

The 46th Parliament marked a change of government, with a coalition of the Labour Party and the Alliance taking office. Helen Clark replaced Jenny Shipley as Prime Minister. The National Party, which had formed a minority government for the last part of the 45th Parliament, became the largest opposition party, eventually emerging under a new leader, Bill English. Other parties in Parliament were ACT, the Greens, New Zealand First, and United. Several parties represented at the end of the previous Parliament, such as Mauri Pacific, were wiped out, failing to retain any of their seats.

The 46th Parliament consisted of one hundred and twenty representatives. Sixty-seven of these representatives were chosen by geographical electorates, including six Māori electorates. The remainder were elected by means of party-list proportional representation under the Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) electoral system.

Electoral boundaries for the 46th Parliament

Overview of seats

The table below shows the number of MPs in each party following the 1999 election and at dissolution:

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Notes

  • The Working Government majority is calculated as all Government MPs less all other parties.
  • ^CS The Green Party entered a confidence and supply agreement with the Labour-Alliance coalition

Initial composition of the 46th Parliament

46th New Zealand Parliament - MPs elected to Parliament

List MPs are ordered by allocation as determined by the Chief Electoral Office[1] and the party lists.

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Changes during term

There were no by-elections held during the term of the 46th Parliament.

Seating plan

Start of term

The chamber is in a horseshoe-shape.[2]

Wong Anae Ardern Rich Scott
Roy Kidd Mapp Herlihy Young Neeson Simich Hasler Kyd Steel Newman Franks Webster Eckhoff Woolerton Heatley Tisch
te Heuheu Vernon Brownlee J. Carter Upton McCully Williamson Simcock D. Carter Awatere Huata Hide Jennings Brown Mark Donnelly Hutchison Tolley
M. Bradford Luxton Creech Shipley English Sowry N. Smith L. Smith Ryall Prebble Shirley Peters Donald S. Bradford Kedgley Power Worth
Fitzsimons Ewen-Street Tánczos
Hunt Locke
Jackson
Dunne Peck Campbell
Sutton Lee Anderton CLARK Cullen Maharey Goff King Mallard Bunkle Wright Kelly Keall O'Connor Gordon Cunliffe Tamihere
Harré Robson Gillon Barker Hodgson Wilson Samuels Dalziel Hawkins Horomia Robertson Duynhoven Field Mackey Beyer Cosgrove Ririnui
Braybrooke Hobbs Swain C. Carter Burton Gosche Tizard Dyson Turia Pettis Yates Mahuta Hawke Barnett Duncan Chadwick Okeroa
Gallagher Benson-Pope Hartley Laban

References

  1. "Party Lists of Successful Registered Parties". Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  2. "Debating Chamber". clerk.parliament.govt.nz. 15 March 2000. Archived from the original on 22 April 1999.

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