Napier

General electorate · Hawke's Bay · 2026 election, preliminary results

Katie Nimon (National) won Napier with 18,799 votes (52.3%), a majority of 6,847 over Alex Hedley (Labour). National won the party vote with 34.3%. Turnout was 69.8%.

Electorate vote

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Vs party vote
Katie Nimon	National	18,799	52.3%	+18.0 pts
Alex Hedley	Labour	11,952	33.3%	+7.3 pts
Te Kira Lawrence	NZ First	1,975	5.5%	−5.0 pts
Roy Peter Boonen	Green	1,643	4.6%	−4.0 pts
John Ormond	ACT	1,288	3.6%	−11.2 pts
Graham Wainwright	Independent	287	0.8%	–

Party vote

Party	Votes	Share	Nationally
National	12,362	34.3%	29.2%
Labour	9,355	26.0%	29.4%
ACT	5,329	14.8%	10.9%
NZ First	3,785	10.5%	9.8%
Green	3,091	8.6%	13.3%
Opportunity	1,837	5.1%	6.0%
Legalise Cannabis	61	0.2%	0.2%
Te Pāti Māori	50	0.1%	0.6%
Animal Justice	36	0.1%	0.1%
Outdoors & Freedom	35	0.1%	0.1%

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Katie Nimon won 52.3% of the electorate vote, while National won 34.3% of the party vote here: a gap of 18.0 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 7.6 points since 2023 (8.9 points nationally). Opportunity's rose 3.7 points.
The biggest change at a single polling place: at PAK'nSAVE Napier, National's party vote fell 10.0 points since 2023.
National topped the party vote at 44 of 58 polling places here, Labour at 13.

36,255 votes cast from an estimated 51,941 enrolled. Preliminary election-night count; special votes are added in the official count. Source: Electoral Commission.