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Analysis: Christopher Luxon and David Seymour are in regular contact as they try to get traction on a new government, but with New Zealand First still in the frame there’s little appetite to start formal talks.

Close, but so far no “baubles of office” for Winston Peters and NZ First. “We have done the impossible,” he told supporters on election night. But as the old saying goes, politics is the art of the possible.

After turning the deep blue Tāmaki seat pink this weekend, Brooke van Velden is looming as the  Act Party’s next leader.

The National Party secured about 40 percent of the vote, putting it in a position to form a new administration.

Labour and National strongholds were stormed by their political opponents last night

From winning a single-party majority in 2020, Labour’s vote has virtually halved in 2023. Pre-election polls appear to have under-estimated support for National, which on the provisional results can form a government with ACT and won’t need NZ First, despite those same polls pointing to a three-way split.

The big question is can National and Act speedily negotiate government formation without the spectre of a confidence without supply arrangement

Chris Luxon will become New Zealand's next prime minister as his centre-right National party wins the country's election.

‘Labour is not in a position to form government,’ Chris Hipkins says