SECTIONS

Election 2011

NationalDecember 5

Curran majority slashed in Dunedin South

Incumbent Labour MP Clare Curran has had her majority slashed in the traditional Labour stronghold of Dunedin South and National has pulled off an upset by winning the party vote in the working class electorate.
Curran majority slashed in Dunedin South
Curran majority slashed in Dunedin South
NationalDecember 5

Triumphant Peters claims victory

With a new lease on life, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters strutted into a jubilant atmosphere after a historic result gave him a ticket back to Parliament after three years in the political wilderness.
NationalNovember 28

Key predicts Cunliffe will lead Labour

Prime Minister John Key has made his pick for the new leader of the Labour party.
Key predicts Cunliffe will lead Labour
Key predicts Cunliffe will lead Labour
NationalNovember 27

Opinion: Six reasons National won the election

New Zealand Herald political columnist John Armstrong lays out the reasons for National's victory in the general election.
Opinion: Six reasons National won the election
Opinion: Six reasons National won the election
NationalNovember 27

Phil Goff to stay in Parliament

Labour leader Phil Goff will not quit Parliament this term, but is staying silent on his future as party leader.
NationalNovember 26

MPP looks set to stay

MMP looks set to stay, with more than half the advance referendum votes in favour of the current electoral system.
NewsNovember 22

Masked men storm election meeting

Labour's candidate for Christchurch Central says a protest by a militant group at a public election meeting in the city last night was "pathetic" and "designed to intimidate".
NationalNovember 22

National admits brain drain to Aust

National admits New Zealand is losing skills as record numbers of people move across the Tasman, but says emigrants can't be held back at the border.
NationalNovember 22

Public divided over tea-tape

The public is highly polarised about whether the "tea cup tape'' should be released, a poll suggests.
QueenstownNovember 22

Key can't escape tea-tape in Queenstown

The tea-tape saga has followed John Key south with the Prime Minister fielding more questions about the hot election issue in Queenstown today.
Key can't escape tea-tape in Queenstown
Key can't escape tea-tape in Queenstown
NewsNovember 22

National to rule alone - poll

Prime Minister John Key will be returned to power on Saturday with the first majority government in New Zealand in a decade, Australian pollster Roy Morgan says.
NationalNovember 20

Winston: 'I'm not the king-maker'

Winston Peters talks to nzherald.co.nz about his party's policies, current polls and the upcoming election.
NationalNovember 20

Newspaper ready for police tea tape search

The Herald on Sunday says its staff will co-operate fully with police when they show up to search the newsroom in their investigation into the teapot tapes.
NationalNovember 20

The 'worm' returns for leaders' debate

Expect even more relentless repetition of upbeat language than usual from Prime Minister John Key and Labour leader Phil Goff as the worm returns for tonight's leaders' debate on TV3.
NationalNovember 20

Key rules out apology to cameraman

Prime Minister John Key said today he would not be offering a retraction or apology to cameraman Bradley Ambrose.
NewsNovember 17

Tea-tape cameraman fights back

The cameraman who made the "teapot tape'' says his reputation is under attack, and he is considering a defamation case that could cover Prime Minister John Key, National's campaign manager Steven Joyce and Act leader Don Brash.
NationalNovember 17

Police to swoop on media offices over tea tape

The teapot tape saga turned into a political storm yesterday as it sidelined the election campaigns of the major parties and left Act - and its chances of winning Epsom - in turmoil.
NationalNovember 15

Peters confident 'tea tape' will be released

Winston Peters is confident the 'tea tapes' will be released, unveiling derogatory comments made by Prime Minister John Key.
NewsNovember 15

Opinion: Key silence on tea tape cause for suspicion

John Key insists there is nothing on the secret tape of his "cup of tea'' conversation with John Banks to cause him the slightest bother.
NationalNovember 15

Row over Epsom tea tape heats up

The taping of a private conversation between Prime Minister John Key and Act Epsom candidate John Banks is becoming a distraction for National and Act, and the police are now involved.
Row over Epsom tea tape heats up
Row over Epsom tea tape heats up
NationalNovember 15

Goff tells Aussie bank they're gone if he's elected

Labour leader Phil Goff has written to the Australian investment bankers hired by the Government to give them a message - "hands off our assets''.
NationalNovember 14

Green vote could cost National election: PM

Prime Minister John Key has conceded National risk losing the election should the Green Party hold the balance of power.
Green vote could cost National election: PM
Green vote could cost National election: PM
NationalNovember 14

Labour slips further in poll

Labour's support has slipped in the first week of the election campaign to below 30 per cent, according to a survey released this afternoon.
NationalNovember 14

Labour would borrow more, keep assets

Labour leader Phil Goff has promised to show New Zealand the money tomorrow and reveal his party's fiscal plan which will involve borrowing $2.6 billion more than National over three years.
NationalNovember 14

Labour rejects claim of $17b hole in budget

National's attack on Labour over the alleged $17 billion "hole'' in its economic plan ignores more than $1 billion a year in proceeds from the state-owned assets National would sell and the assets generated by Super Fund contributions, Labour's David Parker says.