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Under the Electoral Act 1993, election advertising may be published at any time, except on election day.

Election signs

Councils may have their own rules about the placement of election signs. If you have questions or concerns about the placement of election signs in your area, you can contact your local council.

Council Profiles (localcouncils.govt.nz)

We need more than 20,000 people to help us deliver the 2023 General Election - by working at voting places, electorate headquarters and regional offices around the country.

All roles are paid - and wherever you are in New Zealand there could be a job for you.

Apply online (work.elections.nz)

If you'll be overseas during the 2023 General Election, you can still vote.

Vote before you go

Advance voting starts on Monday 2 October. You can vote at any voting place in New Zealand from then until 7pm on election day, Saturday 14 October.

Vote from overseas

Overseas voting starts on 27 September 2023. You won't be able to vote or to get voting papers before this date.

The best way to vote from overseas is to download your voting papers from our website. Once you've completed them, you can return them by uploading them.

You may also be able to vote at an overseas voting place. A list of overseas voting places will be available on our website by mid-September.

Vote from overseas

Candidate nominations for the 2023 General Election open on Monday 28 August 2023. You can find all the information you need about becoming a candidate in our Candidate Hub.

Candidate Hub

It's easy to enrol, check or update your enrolment details.

Find out how

The Māori Electoral Option is a choice for Māori about which electoral roll they want to be on: the Māori roll or the general roll.

If you are Māori, and enrolling to vote for the first time, you choose which electoral roll you want to be on.

You can also change your roll type at any time, except:

• in the 3 months before a general election
• in the 3 months before local elections which are held every 3 years
• before a parliamentary by-election if the change would move you into the electorate where the by-election is being held.

To change rolls for the 2023 General Election, you needed to make the change before midnight, Thursday 13 July 2023. Your next opportunity to change rolls will be after the election.

If you're Māori and enrolling for the first time, you can still choose between the Māori roll and the general roll.

What is the Māori Electoral Option

If you’ve changed your address but haven’t let us know, or if you’ve never enrolled to vote, you may have received a letter asking “Are you enrolled at your current address?”. If you receive this letter, you may need to enrol or update your enrolment.

You can enrol or update online, or give us a call on 0800 36 76 56.

You can view the results of past parliamentary elections at electionresults.govt.nz.

New Zealand Election Results (electionresults.govt.nz)

Find out how to make a request to us under the Official Information Act (OIA)

We proactively release all OIA requests we receive, and our responses to them, on a quarterly basis.

Reponses to OIA requests