Tukituki

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

Catherine Wedd (National) won Tukituki with 17,326 votes (51.0%), a majority of 8,933 over Dan Scott (Labour). National won the party vote with 33.9%. Turnout was 68.8%.

Electorate vote

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Vs party vote
Catherine Wedd	National	17,326	51.0%	+17.2 pts
Dan Scott	Labour	8,393	24.7%	+0.0 pts
Taine Randell	NZ First	3,883	11.4%	−0.3 pts
Mark Norman Longworth	Green	1,989	5.9%	−2.5 pts
Rachel Ward	Opportunity	1,097	3.2%	−1.9 pts
Rob Douglas	ACT	976	2.9%	−12.6 pts
Romana (Marnz) Manning	Legalise Cannabis	221	0.7%	+0.4 pts
Grant Seton	Independent	37	0.1%	–
Allister David Tosh	Independent	29	0.1%	–

Party vote

Party	Votes	Share	Nationally
National	11,509	33.9%	29.2%
Labour	8,384	24.7%	29.4%
ACT	5,244	15.4%	10.9%
NZ First	3,973	11.7%	9.8%
Green	2,856	8.4%	13.3%
Opportunity	1,729	5.1%	6.0%
Legalise Cannabis	74	0.2%	0.2%
Te Pāti Māori	51	0.2%	0.6%
Animal Justice	37	0.1%	0.1%
Women’s Rights	30	0.1%	0.1%

Did you know?

Catherine Wedd won 51.0% of the electorate vote, while National won 33.9% of the party vote here: a gap of 17.2 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 8.4 points since 2023 (8.9 points nationally). NZ First's rose 5.4 points.
The biggest change at a single polling place: at Hastings Christian School, National's party vote fell 12.3 points since 2023.
National topped the party vote at 31 of 49 polling places here, Labour at 18.

34,193 votes cast from an estimated 49,699 enrolled. Preliminary election-night count; special votes are added in the official count. Source: Electoral Commission.