Waitaki

General electorate · Otago · 2026 election, preliminary results

Miles John Anderson (National) won Waitaki with 19,790 votes (50.1%), a majority of 8,352 over Damien O'Connor (Labour). National won the party vote with 36.6%. Turnout was 72.5%.

Electorate vote

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Vs party vote
Miles John Anderson	National	19,790	50.1%	+13.4 pts
Damien O'Connor	Labour	11,438	29.0%	+8.8 pts
Michael Laws	NZ First	3,922	9.9%	−1.4 pts
Sean Beamish	ACT	1,848	4.7%	−10.9 pts
Helen Tait	Opportunity	1,633	4.1%	−1.6 pts
Bronwyn Judge	Independent	465	1.2%	–
Daniel Shand	Independent	255	0.6%	–
Adrian Daegal Graamans	Independent	157	0.4%	–

Party vote

Party	Votes	Share	Nationally
National	14,528	36.6%	29.2%
Labour	8,001	20.2%	29.4%
ACT	6,187	15.6%	10.9%
NZ First	4,502	11.4%	9.8%
Green	3,805	9.6%	13.3%
Opportunity	2,285	5.8%	6.0%
Legalise Cannabis	85	0.2%	0.2%
Outdoors & Freedom	58	0.1%	0.1%
Animal Justice	41	0.1%	0.1%
Te Pāti Māori	32	0.1%	0.6%

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National held on, but its candidate's lead at the same polling places shrank from 32.7 points in 2023 to 20.5 points.
Miles John Anderson won 50.1% of the electorate vote, while National won 36.6% of the party vote here: a gap of 13.4 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 8.0 points since 2023 (8.9 points nationally). Opportunity's rose 4.2 points.
The 3rd-highest turnout of the general electorates so far: 72.5%.
National topped the party vote at 56 of 64 polling places here, Labour at 8.

39,859 votes cast from an estimated 54,978 enrolled. Preliminary election-night count; special votes are added in the official count. Source: Electoral Commission.

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