Banks Peninsula
General electorate · Canterbury · 2026 election, preliminary results
Tracey McLellan (Labour) won Banks Peninsula with 19,216 votes (43.1%), a majority of 2,261 over Vanessa Weenink (National). Labour won the party vote with 28.0%. Turnout was 70.9%.
Electorate vote
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Vs party vote |
|---|
| Tracey McLellan | Labour | 19,216 | 43.1% | +15.1 pts |
| Vanessa Weenink | National | 16,955 | 38.0% | +12.1 pts |
| Craig Pauling | Green | 5,396 | 12.1% | −5.8 pts |
| John Stringer | NZ First | 1,612 | 3.6% | −4.5 pts |
| Zac Wellman | ACT | 1,116 | 2.5% | −6.5 pts |
| AmyLorraine Turner | Conservative | 99 | 0.2% | +0.1 pts |
| Lesley Margaret Sales | NZ Loyal | 91 | 0.2% | +0.1 pts |
| Kyle Turnbull | Alliance | 91 | 0.2% | +0.1 pts |
Party vote
| Party | Votes | Share | Nationally |
|---|
| Labour | 12,498 | 28.0% | 29.4% |
| National | 11,606 | 26.0% | 29.2% |
| Green | 8,006 | 17.9% | 13.3% |
| Opportunity | 4,547 | 10.2% | 6.0% |
| ACT | 4,035 | 9.0% | 10.9% |
| NZ First | 3,613 | 8.1% | 9.8% |
| Legalise Cannabis | 57 | 0.1% | 0.2% |
| Conservative | 47 | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Te Pāti Māori | 43 | 0.1% | 0.6% |
| Animal Justice | 41 | 0.1% | 0.1% |
Did you know?
- A change: in 2023, National candidates won the most electorate votes at the polling places inside today's boundaries. This time Labour's Tracey McLellan won the seat.
- Tracey McLellan won 43.1% of the electorate vote, while Labour won 28.0% of the party vote here: a gap of 15.1 points, so many voters backed the candidate but gave their party vote elsewhere.
- At the polling places inside today's boundaries, Opportunity's party vote rose 6.0 points since 2023 (3.7 points nationally). National's fell 5.8 points.
- The biggest change at a single polling place: at Cashmere Primary School Hall, Opportunity's party vote rose 13.2 points since 2023.
- National topped the party vote at 19 of 38 polling places here, Labour at 16.
44,839 votes cast from an estimated 63,243 enrolled. Preliminary election-night count; special votes are added in the official count. Source: Electoral Commission.
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