Whangārei

General electorate · Northland · 2026 election, preliminary results

Lloyd Sam Budd (National) won Whangārei with 15,757 votes (40.3%), a majority of 1,092 over Gary Payinda (Labour). National won the party vote with 30.5%. Turnout was 70.5%.

Electorate vote

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Vs party vote
Lloyd Sam Budd	National	15,757	40.3%	+9.9 pts
Gary Payinda	Labour	14,665	37.6%	+13.9 pts
Vince Cocurullo	NZ First	5,842	15.0%	−0.4 pts
Doug Graham	ACT	1,476	3.8%	−9.6 pts
Simon Dellabarca	Opportunity	748	1.9%	−3.4 pts
Noah Wakelam	Outdoors & Freedom	212	0.5%	+0.4 pts
Collin Blackman	NZ Loyal	132	0.3%	+0.1 pts
Jon Twyman	Independent	98	0.3%	–
Daryl Warren Clotworthy	Independent	89	0.2%	–
Luke Beharrell	Money Free Party NZ	33	0.1%	+0.1 pts

Party vote

Party	Votes	Share	Nationally
National	11,955	30.5%	29.2%
Labour	9,266	23.6%	29.4%
NZ First	6,035	15.4%	9.8%
ACT	5,265	13.4%	10.9%
Green	4,124	10.5%	13.3%
Opportunity	2,076	5.3%	6.0%
NZ Loyal	92	0.2%	0.1%
Legalise Cannabis	85	0.2%	0.2%
Outdoors & Freedom	71	0.2%	0.1%
Te Pāti Māori	71	0.2%	0.6%

Did you know?

National held on, but its candidate's lead at the same polling places shrank from 26.9 points in 2023 to 3.0 points.
At the polling places inside today's boundaries, National's party vote fell 7.9 points since 2023 (8.9 points nationally). ACT's rose 4.4 points.
Lloyd Sam Budd won 40.3% of the electorate vote, while National won 30.5% of the party vote here: a gap of 9.9 points, so many voters backed the candidate but gave their party vote elsewhere.
The biggest change at a single polling place: at Okara Shopping Centre, National's party vote fell 12.1 points since 2023.
National topped the party vote at 30 of 46 polling places here, Labour at 13.

39,404 votes cast from an estimated 55,892 enrolled. Preliminary election-night count; special votes are added in the official count. Source: Electoral Commission.