Nau mai haere mai and welcome to this special post-election newsletter.

They call election results like this landslides, but in truth Jacinda Ardern’s Labour victory is tectonic, altering the MMP landscape and reshaping New Zealand politics in general. It was always going to be a “COVID election”, as Ardern put it, but the scale with which she and her party have been rewarded is nonetheless historic.

You can see party results and the likely shape of the country’s 53rd parliament here, and also compare this year’s outcome with the 2017 election. Our panel of five political experts has analysed what happened and the implications for New Zealand’s political future.

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We will be back with the regular newsletter later this week and delivering more analysis and commentary as the fallout from this extraordinary election continues.

Until then, all the best — ngā mihi nui ki a koutou katoa.