{"id":23899,"date":"2020-10-17T16:37:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T07:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/oct\/17\/nz-election-2020-polls-live-results-new-zealand-jacinda-ardern-judith-collins-news"},"modified":"2020-10-17T22:11:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T13:11:31","slug":"nz-election-2020-early-results-show-jacinda-arderns-labour-party-has-commanding-lead-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23899","title":{"rendered":"Voters thanked amid Labour landslide \u2013\u00a0as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judith Collins concedes as results show Labour on track for a large majority<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/17\/jacinda-arderns-labour-party-set-for-victory-in-new-zealand-election\">Full report: Ardern hails \u2018very strong mandate\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/oct\/17\/nz-election-2020-polls-live-results-new-zealand-jacinda-ardern-judith-collins-news?page=with:block-5f88e0128f0851521938aa54#block-5f88e0128f0851521938aa54\">More than 1.9 million people voted early<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/oct\/17\/nz-election-2020-polls-live-results-new-zealand-jacinda-ardern-judith-collins-news?page=with:block-5f8528398f08f7f7041485eb#block-5f8528398f08f7f7041485eb\">New Zealand\u2019s MMP electoral system: what is it and how does it work<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-10-17T13:07:56.294Z\">2.07pm <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>We shall now close up our coverage of the New Zealand general election, following the historic Labour victory.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll leave you with our news story, with 99.8% of the votes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/17\/jacinda-arderns-labour-party-set-for-victory-in-new-zealand-election\">now counted<\/a> and Labour accounting for 49.1% of votes. Thanks for joining us, and take care.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/17\/jacinda-arderns-labour-party-set-for-victory-in-new-zealand-election\">Jacinda Ardern hails &#8216;very strong mandate&#8217; after New Zealand election landslide<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-10-17T13:01:58.043Z\">2.01pm <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2020\/oct\/17\/jacinda-ardern-new-zealand-prime-minister-in-pictures\">Jacinda Ardern&#8217;s first term as New Zealand&#8217;s prime minister \u2013 in pictures<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/oct\/17\/nz-election-2020-polls-live-results-new-zealand-jacinda-ardern-judith-collins-news\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judith Collins concedes as results show Labour on track for a large majorityFull report: Ardern hails \u2018very strong mandate\u2019More than 1.9 million people voted earlyNew Zealand\u2019s MMP electoral system: what is it and how does it work 2.07pm BST We shall n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,268,1700,56,1594,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-jacinda-ardern","category-judith-collins","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-election-2020","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23931,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23899\/revisions\/23931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}