Good morning. Here are 3 of the 10 stories in today's Ten@10.
1. Democracy Briefing: How the overhang put the right ahead
Bryce Edwards says Labour outpolled National on the party vote, yet the overhang turned a 60-60 dead heat into a 67-64 coalition majority in a 131-seat Parliament. He weighs whether the split-vote campaign supplied the margin, and wants Labour and National to fix the rule before any snap election.
Read it at The Democracy Project
9. RODNEY HIDE: Wasted Electorate Votes
Rodney Hide says 210,914 ACT and NZ First electorate votes added no extra centre-right MP, and that Ron Mark's 3,555 votes in Wairarapa, where National leads by 139, may yet decide the election. He lists six other seats those votes cost National.
10. Election 2026: Before accusing the centre-Right of gaming the system, the Left should check out its own vote-splitting 'rorts'
Ani O'Brien tells Law News that split voting is built into MMP, that Te Pāti Māori and Labour have used the same tactic, and that Helen Clark calling the election "flawed" is "pretty Trumpian". The difference this time, she says, is scale: 11 extra seats.
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