Richard Prebble: A landslide

Under First Past the Post, National would have won a landslide victory on Saturday’s electorate results.

National won 42 of the 71 electorates. All the other parties combined won just 29.

National would have had a majority of 13 seats over all the other parties combined and could have governed alone.

Mike's Minute: The trouble with revisiting MMP

Is Luxon's MMP vote a stroke of genius to avoid an otherwise problematic week?

His apology for Rotorua was a cluster, the Māorification issues that haven't been resolved despite all the talk, the Corrections massages, MBIE, Treasury love-ins, the Justice Department cock-up on the Harrison bloke, and the unemployment rate to the upside – it's all looked like very bad news.