East Cape
General electorate · Bay of Plenty · 2026 election, preliminary results
Dana Margot Kirkpatrick (National) won East Cape with 16,404 votes (49.1%), a majority of 5,325 over Jo Luxton (Labour). National won the party vote with 30.4%. Turnout was 67.7%.
Electorate vote
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Vs party vote |
|---|
| Dana Margot Kirkpatrick | National | 16,404 | 49.1% | +18.8 pts |
| Jo Luxton | Labour | 11,079 | 33.2% | +4.8 pts |
| Jordan Walker | Green | 2,862 | 8.6% | −1.2 pts |
| Darrin Hawkes | ACT | 1,982 | 5.9% | −7.4 pts |
| Cail Smith | Opportunity | 779 | 2.3% | −1.9 pts |
| Gordon John Dickson | Independent | 276 | 0.8% | – |
Party vote
| Party | Votes | Share | Nationally |
|---|
| National | 10,254 | 30.4% | 29.2% |
| Labour | 9,569 | 28.4% | 29.4% |
| ACT | 4,505 | 13.4% | 10.9% |
| NZ First | 4,258 | 12.6% | 9.8% |
| Green | 3,294 | 9.8% | 13.3% |
| Opportunity | 1,432 | 4.2% | 6.0% |
| Te Pāti Māori | 181 | 0.5% | 0.6% |
| Legalise Cannabis | 60 | 0.2% | 0.2% |
| Outdoors & Freedom | 35 | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Vision NZ | 34 | 0.1% | 0.1% |
Did you know?
- Te Pāti Māori's highest party vote in the country: 0.5%.
- Dana Margot Kirkpatrick won 49.1% of the electorate vote, while National won 30.4% of the party vote here: a gap of 18.8 points, so many voters backed the candidate but gave their party vote elsewhere.
- At the polling places inside today's boundaries, National's party vote fell 6.9 points since 2023 (8.9 points nationally). ACT's rose 4.9 points.
- National's lead at the same polling places grew from 6.1 points in 2023 to 15.4 points.
- The biggest change at a single polling place: at Edgecumbe War Memorial Hall, National's party vote fell 11.6 points since 2023.
- Labour topped the party vote at 40 of 78 polling places here, National at 33.
33,920 votes cast from an estimated 50,103 enrolled. Preliminary election-night count; special votes are added in the official count. Source: Electoral Commission.
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