All 120 seats in the House of Representatives 61 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout
2,055,404 (76.98%) 7.79%
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Helen Clark
Bill English
Winston Peters
Party
Labour
National
NZ First
Leader since
1 December 1993
8 October 2001
18 July 1993
Leader's seat
Mount Albert
Clutha-Southland
Tauranga
Last election
49 seats, 38.74%
39 seats, 30.50%
5 seats, 4.26%
Seats won
52
27
13
Seat change
3
12
8
Electorate vote
891,866 44.69% 2.94
609,458 30.54% 1.38
79,380 3.98% 0.21
Party vote
838,219 41.26% 2.52
425,310 20.93% 9.57
210,912 10.38% 6.12
Fourth party
Fifth party
Sixth party
Leader
Richard Prebble
Rod Donald Jeanette Fitzsimons
Peter Dunne
Party
ACT
Green
United Future New Zealand
Leader since
26 March 1996
21 May 1995
16 November 2000
Leader's seat
List
List List (lost Coromandel)
Ohariu-Belmont
Last election
9 seats, 7.04%
7 seats, 5.16%
1 seat, 1.65%a
Seats won
9
9
8
Seat change
0
2
7
Electorate vote
70,888 3.55% 0.97
106,717 5.35% 1.14
92,484 4.63% 2.59
Party vote
145,078 7.14% 0.10
142,250 7.00% 1.84
135,918 6.69% 5.04
Seventh party
Eighth party
Leader
Jim Anderton
Laila Harré
Party
Progressive
Alliance
Leader since
27 July 2002
20 April 2002
Leader's seat
Wigram
List (lost seat)
Last election
Not yet founded
10 seats, 7.74%
Seats won
2
0
Seat change
2
10
Electorate vote
36,647 1.84% new
33,655 1.69% 5.21
Party vote
34,542 1.70% new
25,888 1.27% 6.47
Results by electorate, shaded by winning margin
Prime Minister before election
Helen Clark
Labour
Subsequent Prime Minister
Helen Clark
Labour
The 2002 New Zealand general election was held on 27 July 2002 to determine the composition of the 47th New Zealand Parliament. It saw the reelection of Helen Clark's Labour Party government, as well as the worst-ever performance by the opposition National Party (the 2020 election would see it suffer a greater defeat in terms of net loss of seats).
A controversial issue in the election campaign was the end of a moratorium on genetic engineering, strongly opposed by the Green Party. Some commentators have claimed that the tension between Labour and the Greens on this issue was a more notable part of the campaign than any tension between Labour and its traditional right-wing opponents. The release of Nicky Hager's book Seeds of Distrust prior to the election also sparked much debate. The book examined how the government handled the contamination of a shipment of imported corn with genetically modified seeds. Helen Clark called the Greens "goths and anarcho-feminists" during the campaign.
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