The 33rd New Zealand Parliament was a term of the
New Zealand Parliament
The New Zealand Parliament ( mi, Pāremata Aotearoa) is the unicameral legislature of New Zealand, consisting of the King of New Zealand ( King-in-Parliament) and the New Zealand House of Representatives. The King is usually represented by h ...
. It was elected at the
1960 general election on 26 November of that year.
1960 general election
The 1960 general election was held on Saturday, 26 November.
A total of 80
MPs were elected; 51 represented
North Island
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electorates, 25 represented
South Island
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electorates, and the remaining four represented
Māori electorates
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; this was the same distribution used since the . 1,310,742 voters were enrolled and the official turnout at the election was 89.8%.
Sessions
The 33rd Parliament sat for four sessions (there were two sessions in 1963), and was prorogued on 25 October 1963.
Ministries
The
Labour Party under
Walter Nash
Sir Walter Nash (12 February 1882 – 4 June 1968) was a New Zealand politician who served as the 27th prime minister of New Zealand in the Second Labour Government from 1957 to 1960. He is noted for his long period of political service, havin ...
had been in power since the as the
second Labour Government
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, but was defeated by the
National Party at the by a twelve-seat margin.
Keith Holyoake
Sir Keith Jacka Holyoake, (; 11 February 1904 – 8 December 1983) was the 26th prime minister of New Zealand, serving for a brief period in 1957 and then from 1960 to 1972, and also the 13th governor-general of New Zealand, serving from 1977 ...
formed the second Holyoake Ministry on 12 December 1960, which stayed in power until Holyoake stepped down in early 1972. The
second National Government remained in place until its defeat at the towards the end of that year.
Overview of seats
The table below shows the number of MPs in each party following the 1960 election and at dissolution:
Notes
*The Working Government majority is calculated as all Government MPs less all other parties.
Initial composition of the 33rd Parliament
By-elections during 33rd Parliament
There were a number of changes during the term of the 33rd Parliament.
Notes
References
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