Northland

General electorate · Northland · 2026 election, preliminary results

Grant Lewis McCallum (National) won Northland with 16,556 votes (44.2%), a majority of 7,942 over Ashleigh Latimer (Labour). National won the party vote with 29.6%. Turnout was 68.2%.

Electorate vote

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Vs party vote
Grant Lewis McCallum	National	16,556	44.2%	+14.6 pts
Ashleigh Latimer	Labour	8,614	23.0%	+2.3 pts
Shane Jones	NZ First	5,750	15.3%	−1.2 pts
Mike Finlayson	Green	3,413	9.1%	−1.5 pts
Mark Cameron	ACT	2,058	5.5%	−10.7 pts
Jeffrey Lye	Legalise Cannabis	443	1.2%	+0.8 pts
Alistair Wait	Outdoors & Freedom	200	0.5%	+0.3 pts
Richard McIntosh	Independent	160	0.4%	–
Pete Verhoeven	NZ Loyal	147	0.4%	+0.1 pts
Douglas Robert Lyell	Conservative	123	0.3%	+0.1 pts

Party vote

Party	Votes	Share	Nationally
National	11,127	29.6%	29.2%
Labour	7,782	20.7%	29.4%
NZ First	6,232	16.6%	9.8%
ACT	6,110	16.2%	10.9%
Green	4,003	10.6%	13.3%
Opportunity	1,715	4.6%	6.0%
Legalise Cannabis	140	0.4%	0.2%
NZ Loyal	107	0.3%	0.1%
Outdoors & Freedom	100	0.3%	0.1%
Te Pāti Māori	98	0.3%	0.6%

Did you know?

The biggest swing to the Greens of any electorate: up 3.7 points at the same polling places as 2023.
The biggest swing to ACT of any electorate: up 5.9 points at the same polling places as 2023.
NZ First's highest party vote in the country: 16.6%.
Grant Lewis McCallum won 44.2% of the electorate vote, while National won 29.6% of the party vote here: a gap of 14.6 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 5.5 points since 2023 (8.9 points nationally). ACT's rose 5.9 points.
The biggest change at a single polling place: at Paparoa School, National's party vote fell 10.7 points since 2023.

37,823 votes cast from an estimated 55,459 enrolled. Preliminary election-night count; special votes are added in the official count. Source: Electoral Commission.