Story: Electoral systems
Page 8 – External links and sources
More links and websites
Elections New Zealand
The official website of New Zealand’s elections provides information about voting and the history of elections in New Zealand.
Referendum on the voting system
The official website about the 2011 referendum on the voting system provides information on the options.
Report of The Royal Commission on the Electoral System 1986
An electronic version of the report produced by the Royal Commission on the Electoral System, which recommended that New Zealand should change its electoral system.
The road to MMP
This section of the NZHistory.net.nz website looks at New Zealand’s change from first-past-the-post to a mixed-member proportional (MMP) electoral system.
More suggestions and sources
Atkinson, Neill. Adventures in democracy: a history of the vote in New Zealand. Dunedin: University of Otago Press in association with the Electoral Commission, 2003.
McRobie, Alan, ed. Taking it to the people: the New Zealand electoral referendum debate. Christchurch: Hazard Press, 1993.
