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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1625/
- Published: 2026-11-08T17:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-08T17:29:59.000Z
- Description: “There was over a 20 per cent swing. So that’s huge. It is the only thing that has saved the centre-right in this country” – Mowbray
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day

> Harry Mowbray says there’s “no question” the strategic vote-splitting campaign he helped push has aided the coalition’s chances of re-election.  
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> But with the balance of parliament hanging on a knife-edge, some electorates too close to call and special votes still to be counted, Mowbray said leaders on the right “should be feeling very embarrassed” about some results. \[...\]  
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> Speaking to the *Herald*, Mowbray said the results show that, without the strategy, National “wouldn’t even be in discussion” with its coalition partners, who have both increased their party vote share since 2023.  
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> “The horrifying thing was that \[National\] still don’t recognise it,” Mowbray said.  
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> “There was over a 20 per cent swing. So that’s huge. It is the only thing that has saved the centre-right in this country.” \[...\]  
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> “We’re trying to help this lot, but they’re just looking in the rearview mirror at the electorates that they’ve lost ... I don’t know how we actually get them to do the arithmetic but, yeah, it’s mind-blowing,” Mowbray said.  
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> [NZ Herald](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/election-2026-harry-mowbray-says-vote-splitting-campaign-helped-coalitions-re-election-chances/ZPSKDLMR2BC4RJ3CES7ZXH5HQU/?ref=goodoil.news)

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