1993 New Zealand electoral reform referendum

1993 New Zealand electoral reform referendum
6 November 1993 (1993-11-06)
Chose one proposal
"I vote for the present First Past the Post system as provided by the Electoral Act 1956"
"I vote for the proposed Mixed Member Proportional system as provided by the Electoral Act 1993"
Results
Choice
 Votes %
Yes 1,032,919 53.86%
No 884,964 46.14%
Valid votes 1,917,883 100.00%
Invalid or blank votes 0 0.00%
Total votes 1,917,883 100.00%
Registered voters/turnout 2,251,403 85.19%
Results by electorate

An electoral reform referendum on whether to replace the first-past-the-post voting system with mixed-member proportional representation was held in New Zealand on Saturday, 6 November 1993, in conjunction with that year's general election.[1][2] The "Yes" side prevailed with 53.86% of the vote.

  1. ^ "Decision Maker – MMP's First Decade". 2006. Archived from the original on 16 October 2008. Retrieved 5 February 2009.
  2. ^ Roberts, Nigel S. (1 February 2015). "Electoral systems – The 1990s electoral-reform referendums". Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 25 September 2023.