1993 New Zealand general election

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The 1993 New Zealand general election was held on 6 November 1993 to determine the composition of the 44th New Zealand Parliament. Voters elected 99 members to the House of Representatives, up from 97 members at the 1990 election. The election was held concurrently with an electoral reform referendum to replace the first-past-the-post system, with all members elected from single-member electorates, with mixed-member proportional representation. The referendum carried by 53.9% to 46.1%. Due to the result of the referendum, this was the last NZ election where all the members were elected by direct election in districts. Prior to the next election, NZ shifted to a mixed member proportional system. The election re-elected the governing National Party, led by Jim Bolger, to a second term in office, despite a major swing away from National in both seats and votes. Having broken electoral campaign promises and embarked on supply-side economics and wide-sweeping cuts during his first term, Bolger...

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