Tuesday, 9 December 2025
Vote: Bills — Electoral Amendment Bill
— Second Reading
🗳️ That the Electoral Amendment Bill be now read a second time
RIMA NAKHLE (National—Takanini): We’ve heard a lot about how this law is “despicable”. What I find despicable is the amount of painstaking support the Opposition, in select committee, died to tell us—almost died, figuratively speaking—about how much...
✓ Passed by a narrow margin
(68 Ayes – 55 Noes)
Hansard didn't name individual MPs for this vote, only how each party voted overall, so
there's no per-member breakdown to show here.
🏛️ Party breakdown
| Party | Aye | No |
|---|---|---|
| ACT New Zealand | 11 | 0 |
| Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand | 0 | 15 |
| New Zealand First | 8 | 0 |
| New Zealand Labour | 0 | 34 |
| New Zealand National | 49 | 0 |
| Te Pāti Māori | 0 | 4 |