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The party of business is in power, but the creases are yet to be ironed out of its dress shirt

Christopher Luxon headed to bed in the early hours of Sunday morning a Prime Minister with a National-Act majority, having ransacked Labour in safe red seats.

From winning a single-party majority in 2020, Labour’s vote has virtually halved in 2023. Pre-election polls appear to have under-estimated support for National, which on the provisional results can form a government with ACT and won’t need NZ First, despite those same polls pointing to a three-way split.

The big question is can National and Act speedily negotiate government formation without the spectre of a confidence without supply arrangement

Chris Luxon will become New Zealand's next prime minister as his centre-right National party wins the country's election.

Four of the Māori seats are a resounding victory for Te Pāti Māori, two are neck and neck and only one seat was a convincing win for Labour, writes Aaron Smale

Voting has closed in New Zealand and ballot counting was underway in a general election, with opinion polls indicating people were favoring a conservative change after six years of a liberal government led for most of that time by Jacinda Ardern

Christopher Luxon says National and Act on track to lead New Zealand after Labour prime minister Chris Hipkins conceded election