1946 New Zealand general election

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/1946_New_Zealand_general_election
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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:politics
gptkbp:country gptkb:New_Zealand
gptkbp:date 27 November 1946
gptkbp:firstElection gptkb:World_War_II
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label 1946 New Zealand general election
gptkbp:Labour_Party_seats_won 42
gptkbp:leader gptkb:Peter_Fraser
gptkbp:NationalPartyLeader gptkb:Sidney_Holland
gptkbp:NationalPartySeatsWon 38
gptkbp:nextEdition 1949 New Zealand general election
gptkbp:notableFor first election after abolition of country quota
first election after 10-year gap due to World War II
gptkbp:numberOfElectorates 80
gptkbp:numberOfGeneralElectorates 76
gptkbp:numberOfMāoriElectorates 4
gptkbp:opposedBy gptkb:New_Zealand_National_Party
gptkbp:parliament gptkb:28th_New_Zealand_Parliament
gptkbp:previousEdition gptkb:1943_New_Zealand_general_election
gptkbp:primeMinister gptkb:Peter_Fraser
gptkbp:seatingCapacity 80
gptkbp:totalVotesCast 1,081,898
gptkbp:voterTurnout 93.5%
gptkbp:votingSystem First-past-the-post
gptkbp:won gptkb:New_Zealand_Labour_Party
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:First_Labour_government_of_New_Zealand
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7