New Zealanders have voted for change, giving the National party a clear mandate to lead the next government with 50 seats in parliament and just under 39 percent support.
Voters have splashed blue across the country, and red seats in the North and South have flipped to National, the Greens and Te Pati Maori.
National and ACT together have 61 seats in a 121-seat parliament.
Labour support fell to just under 27 percent.
Former National Party press secretary and media trainer, Janet Wilson, former ACT Party press secretary Trish Sherson, consultant and former political reporter Scott Campbell, former Labour candidate and political commentator Josie Pagani and former Green MP and now a member of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance Gareth Hughes spoke to Morning Report's post-election special.
