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    The 1981 New Zealand general election, held on 28 November 1981, was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the 40th New Zealand Parliament. It saw...
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    The 2020 New Zealand general election was held on Saturday 17 October 2020 to determine the composition of the 53rd New Zealand Parliament. Voters elected...
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    The 2014 New Zealand general election took place on Saturday 20 September 2014 to determine the membership of the 51st New Zealand Parliament. Voters...
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    The 1978 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to elect the 39th New Zealand Parliament. It saw the governing National Party, led by Robert...
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    The 1984 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the composition of the 41st New Zealand Parliament. It marked the beginning of...
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    The governor-general of New Zealand (Māori: Te kāwana tianara o Aotearoa) is the representative of the monarch of New Zealand, currently King Charles III...
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    rugby team's tour brings widespread disruption. 28 November: 1981 New Zealand general election, National re-elected for third term. 1982 CER agreement signed...
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  • has spent more time in government than any other New Zealand party. After the 1949 general election, Sidney Holland became the first prime minister from...
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    The 40th New Zealand Parliament was a term of the Parliament of New Zealand. Its composition was determined by the 1981 election, and it sat until the...
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    Winston Peters (category Unsuccessful candidates in the 1981 New Zealand general election)
    Racing. Peters first entered the New Zealand House of Representatives for the National Party in the 1978 general election, taking office in 1979 after a...
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    The 1981 South African rugby tour (known in New Zealand as the 1981 Springbok Tour, and in South Africa as the Rebel Tour) polarised opinions and inspired...
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  • Dun Mihaka (category Unsuccessful candidates in the 1981 New Zealand general election)
    (Technical report). New Zealand Chief Electoral Office. 1990. p. 161. Norton, Clifford (1988). New Zealand Parliamentary Election Results 1946–1987: Occasional...
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  • The following lists events that happened during 1981 in New Zealand. Estimated population as of 31 December: 3,194,500. Increase since 31 December 1980:...
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    of New Zealand lasted between 2020 and 2023. It was formed following the Labour Party's landslide victory in the 2020 New Zealand general election. In...
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    The 39th New Zealand Parliament was a term of the Parliament of New Zealand which began with the general election held on 25 November 1978, and finished...
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    MMP in 1996. Since then New Zealand has been a multi-party system, with at least five parties elected in every general election since. By rarely producing...
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    Don Brash (category Unsuccessful candidates in the 1981 New Zealand general election)
    failed to win the seat at the 1981 general election.[citation needed] In 1982 Brash became managing director at the New Zealand Kiwifruit Authority, which...
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    New Zealand Parliament is the current meeting of the legislature in New Zealand. It opened on 5 December 2023 following the 14 October 2023 general election...
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    representation in the New Zealand House of Representatives, holding one seat at times between 1966 and 1981, and two seats from 1981 to 1987. While Social...
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    1996 elections. He was a Green Party candidate in the 1999, 2002 and 2005 elections. Ward was an unsuccessful candidate at seven New Zealand general elections...
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  • election 1981 New Zealand general election Boothby by-election New South Wales state election Tasmanian power referendum Wentworth by-election 1981 Falkland...
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  • Jack Elder (politician) (category Unsuccessful candidates in the 1981 New Zealand general election)
    (born 3 July 1949) is a New Zealand former politician. He was an MP from 1984 to 1999, representing the Labour Party, New Zealand First and Mauri Pacific...
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    Jeanette Fitzsimons (category Unsuccessful candidates in the 1981 New Zealand general election)
    Society. When the Values Party was formed to contest the 1972 New Zealand general election, her father sent her newspaper clippings about the party and...
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  • William David Sutton (born 1944) is a former New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. He represented the Hawkes Bay electorate in Parliament from 1984...
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    the New Zealand House of Representatives. The King is usually represented by his governor-general. Before 1951, there was an upper chamber, the New Zealand...
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    New Zealand Labour Party and the centre-right New Zealand National Party are New Zealand's two major parties, having jointly contested each election since...
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    The New Zealand parliamentary electoral system has been based on the principle of mixed-member proportional (MMP) since the 1996 election. MMP was introduced...
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  • Bill Andersen (category Unsuccessful candidates in the 1981 New Zealand general election)
    New Zealand during the 1970s. He stood for parliament in the safe National seat of Tamaki against Muldoon in the 1972, 1975, 1978 and 1981 elections,...
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    Jim Sutton (category Unsuccessful candidates in the 1981 New Zealand general election)
    Sutton CNZM (born 7 November 1941), generally known as Jim Sutton, is a New Zealand politician who was a Member of Parliament between 1984 and 1990 and again...
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  • By-elections in New Zealand occur to fill vacant seats in the House of Representatives. The death, resignation, or expulsion of a sitting electorate MP...
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