the Greens

The Green Party, which had been part of Ardern’s ruling coalition, also increased its share of the vote, to 8 percent (up from 6 percent in 2017). Meanwhile, the opposition National Party registered its worst performance at the polls in decades, dropping to 27 percent of…

Outside Europe, New Zealand’s Green Party, which was reconstituted from the former Values Party in 1990, won 7 percent of the vote in the 1990 general election; its influence had grown to 9 of the country’s 121 parliamentary seats by 2002 and to 14 parliamentary seats by 2014.