Wairarapa
General electorate · Wellington · 2026 election, preliminary results
Mike Butterick (National) won Wairarapa with 17,943 votes (43.5%), a majority of 139 over Kieran McAnulty (Labour). National won the party vote with 31.0%. Turnout was 72.7%.
Electorate vote
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Vs party vote |
|---|
| Mike Butterick | National | 17,943 | 43.5% | +12.5 pts |
| Kieran McAnulty | Labour | 17,804 | 43.1% | +14.2 pts |
| Ron Mark | NZ First | 3,555 | 8.6% | −3.6 pts |
| Lauren Craig | Green | 1,098 | 2.7% | −6.1 pts |
| Matt Shepherd | Opportunity | 474 | 1.1% | −4.1 pts |
| Barry Young | Outdoors & Freedom | 279 | 0.7% | +0.4 pts |
| Jared Warren Gardner | Te Pāti Hira | 63 | 0.2% | +0.2 pts |
| Victoria Ale | Alliance | 62 | 0.2% | +0.0 pts |
Party vote
| Party | Votes | Share | Nationally |
|---|
| National | 12,804 | 31.0% | 29.2% |
| Labour | 11,940 | 28.9% | 29.4% |
| ACT | 5,279 | 12.8% | 10.9% |
| NZ First | 5,039 | 12.2% | 9.8% |
| Green | 3,596 | 8.7% | 13.3% |
| Opportunity | 2,157 | 5.2% | 6.0% |
| Outdoors & Freedom | 102 | 0.2% | 0.1% |
| Legalise Cannabis | 84 | 0.2% | 0.2% |
| Te Pāti Māori | 58 | 0.1% | 0.6% |
| Alliance | 56 | 0.1% | 0.0% |
Did you know?
- The closest race in the country: decided by 139 votes before special votes.
- At the polling places inside today's boundaries, National's party vote fell 8.0 points since 2023 (8.9 points nationally). NZ First's rose 3.7 points.
- Mike Butterick won 43.5% of the electorate vote, while National won 31.0% of the party vote here: a gap of 12.5 points, so many voters backed the candidate but gave their party vote elsewhere.
- The 2nd-highest turnout of the general electorates so far: 72.7%.
- National topped the party vote at 39 of 56 polling places here, Labour at 16.
41,514 votes cast from an estimated 57,103 enrolled. Preliminary election-night count; special votes are added in the official count. Source: Electoral Commission.
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