16 Oct 2023

National begin negotiations to form new government

From Morning Report, 6:11 am on 16 October 2023

National's strategy team has held its first post-election meeting, working on how to negotiate with ACT and maybe even New Zealand First.

Based on preliminary results National and ACT hold a slim majority at 61 seats out of 121. But there are still 570,000 special votes to be counted, about 20-percent of the total votes cast.

Full results won't be known until November 3rd.