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New Zealanders have voted for change, giving the National party a clear mandate to lead the next government with 50 seats in parliament and just under 39 percent support.
Voters have splashed blue across the country, and red seats in the North and South have flipped to National, the Greens and Te Pati Maori.
National and ACT together have 61 seats in a 121-seat parliament.
Labour support fell to just under 27 percent.
RNZ's political editor Jane Patterson spoke to Morning Report's post-election special.