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Politics
Ben McKay

Hipkins loses election but finds love in NZ campaign

Six years after Jacindamania, and three years after a winning historic majority, New Zealand Labour's star has crashed to earth.

The centre-left party will return to the dark days of opposition with a basement result in the 2023 election.

With 98 per cent of the preliminary vote counted, Labour was sitting on 26.8 per cent - within a few percentage points of their worst result in 100 years.

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