2020 New Zealand general election & referendums (17 October)

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

It really does put a smile on my face that someone as great and awesome as Jacinda Ardern has not only won another term, but with one of the biggest landslides (and apparently/likely the first Majority Government under MMP). It was a well-earned and well-deserved victory for someone that has led NZ through multiple crises.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Re the Maori party win, is it not the case that the Bay of Plenty/Gisborne is the part of the country that actually has the largest concentration of Maori in the country? And coincidence that it is more or less Winston's old stamping ground?

Per wiki article on the Bay of Plenty:

In the 2018 census, ethnicities were 73.6% European/Pākehā, 29.1% Māori, 3.5% Pacific peoples, 7.2% Asian, and 1.8% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity.

So yeah it seems to be quite high in that metric. The Maori % here is close to double that of NZ as a whole.