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Page 8. External links and sources

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.
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Nigel S. Roberts, Electoral systems, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/story/215389/sources (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Nigel S. Roberts, published 14 June 2012, updated 1 February 2015.