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Speaker 1: Jamie McKay, host of The Country's With Us. Hello, Jamie.
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Speaker 2: Hello, Heather. I think it's going to be an election decided by opportunity and overhang and the increase. And I just think we're going to see, as your texter pointed out, an increase in the likelihood of strategic split voting.
00:00:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it does look like the split voting, doesn't it? The 3% drop for national and a 3% gain for the coalition parties.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you've got to remember National took a big leapfrog up to 32 or whatever. They've been hanging around 28, 29. I just watched Jack Tame's summation of it. This is basically back to business as usual with these numbers. Look, the Nats at 29%, they get 34 seats down. Last time round, they won 44 seats, even if they get 39. And I reckon they're still going to win a lot of those rural seats anyhow. That's going to create an overhang of five. Remember, on the other side of the house, there'll obviously be a Te Paute Maori overhang. So as weird as it sounds, and I know Christopher Luxon would hate this being voiced, maybe the pathway for a centre-right government is strategic split voting.
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Speaker 1: Oh, Lord. Are you advocating split voting right now?
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Speaker 2: Well, it depends how desperately you want to centre right government.
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Speaker 1: You can say yes, Jamie, if you're advocating split voting. A lot of very clever people are and maybe you're one of them.
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Speaker 2: Well, I wouldn't describe myself as clever far from it, but I think a lot of people, a lot of people like me, I'm a centre-right voter, but I am thinking of voting for Rachel Brooking as my local electorate MP here in Dunedin because she's the only one I know, and I think she's probably a good local MP. So that's what MMP is all about. You get to vote for your local MP, but more importantly, your party vote will decide the government. Okay.
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Speaker 1: Jamie, fair enough. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Jamie Mackay, host of The Country. There you go.
Speaker 1: Jamie McKay, host of The Country's With Us. Hello, Jamie.
00:00:03
Speaker 2: Hello, Heather. I think it's going to be an election decided by opportunity and overhang and the increase. And I just think we're going to see, as your texter pointed out, an increase in the likelihood of strategic split voting.
00:00:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it does look like the split voting, doesn't it? The 3% drop for national and a 3% gain for the coalition parties.
00:00:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you've got to remember National took a big leapfrog up to 32 or whatever. They've been hanging around 28, 29. I just watched Jack Tame's summation of it. This is basically back to business as usual with these numbers. Look, the Nats at 29%, they get 34 seats down. Last time round, they won 44 seats, even if they get 39. And I reckon they're still going to win a lot of those rural seats anyhow. That's going to create an overhang of five. Remember, on the other side of the house, there'll obviously be a Te Paute Maori overhang. So as weird as it sounds, and I know Christopher Luxon would hate this being voiced, maybe the pathway for a centre-right government is strategic split voting.
00:01:10
Speaker 1: Oh, Lord. Are you advocating split voting right now?
00:01:15
Speaker 2: Well, it depends how desperately you want to centre right government.
00:01:19
Speaker 1: You can say yes, Jamie, if you're advocating split voting. A lot of very clever people are and maybe you're one of them.
00:01:27
Speaker 2: Well, I wouldn't describe myself as clever far from it, but I think a lot of people, a lot of people like me, I'm a centre-right voter, but I am thinking of voting for Rachel Brooking as my local electorate MP here in Dunedin because she's the only one I know, and I think she's probably a good local MP. So that's what MMP is all about. You get to vote for your local MP, but more importantly, your party vote will decide the government. Okay.
00:01:51
Speaker 1: Jamie, fair enough. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Jamie Mackay, host of The Country. There you go.
