Hamilton West
General electorate · Waikato · 2026 election, preliminary results
Tama William Potaka (National) won Hamilton West with 13,616 votes (42.7%), a majority of 2,181 over Myra Williamson (Labour). Labour won the party vote with 32.4%. Turnout was 62.0%.
Electorate vote
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Vs party vote |
|---|
| Tama William Potaka | National | 13,616 | 42.7% | +13.0 pts |
| Myra Williamson | Labour | 11,435 | 35.9% | +3.5 pts |
| Louise Hutt | Green | 3,349 | 10.5% | −1.0 pts |
| Kevin Stone | NZ First | 2,185 | 6.9% | −3.2 pts |
| Blair Smith | Opportunity | 959 | 3.0% | −2.4 pts |
| Donna Pokere-Phillips | Outdoors & Freedom | 115 | 0.4% | +0.2 pts |
| Steve Phelps | Independent | 96 | 0.3% | – |
| Wiremu Thomson | Independent | 93 | 0.3% | – |
| Nathan Lee Couper | New World Order McCann | 32 | 0.1% | +0.1 pts |
Party vote
| Party | Votes | Share | Nationally |
|---|
| Labour | 10,360 | 32.4% | 29.4% |
| National | 9,502 | 29.7% | 29.2% |
| Green | 3,689 | 11.5% | 13.3% |
| NZ First | 3,203 | 10.0% | 9.8% |
| ACT | 3,170 | 9.9% | 10.9% |
| Opportunity | 1,715 | 5.4% | 6.0% |
| Te Pāti Māori | 85 | 0.3% | 0.6% |
| Legalise Cannabis | 56 | 0.2% | 0.2% |
| Conservative | 54 | 0.2% | 0.1% |
| Animal Justice | 38 | 0.1% | 0.1% |
Did you know?
- A split result: Labour won the party vote here (32.4%), but National's Tama William Potaka won the seat.
- At the polling places inside today's boundaries, National's party vote fell 11.3 points since 2023 (8.9 points nationally). Labour's rose 5.7 points.
- National held on, but its candidate's lead at the same polling places shrank from 14.7 points in 2023 to 4.6 points.
- Tama William Potaka won 42.7% of the electorate vote, while National won 29.7% of the party vote here: a gap of 13.0 points, so many voters backed the candidate but gave their party vote elsewhere.
- The biggest change at a single polling place: at Te Awa, National's party vote fell 16.9 points since 2023.
- Labour topped the party vote at 21 of 29 polling places here, National at 8.
32,264 votes cast from an estimated 52,039 enrolled. Preliminary election-night count; special votes are added in the official count. Source: Electoral Commission.
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