Story: Electoral systems

More links and websites

• Vote NZ

  The website of the New Zealand Electoral Commission provides information about voting and the history of elections in New Zealand.

• What is a referendum?

  The website of the New Zealand Electoral Commission explains the referendum process.

• The road to MMP

  This section of the NZ History 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.