World watches NZ election on-line through www.electionresults.govt.nz website
Over 14 million hits from users in 100 countries were recorded on the Chief Electoral Office's www.electionresults.govt.nz website on election night.
"Our website www.electionresults.govt.nz provided the election results progressively in real time on election night," says David Henry, Chief Electoral Officer.
"As soon as the votes were counted and available they were entered into our computer system and were available for the world to see within seconds," he says.
The 14.25 million hits were generated by over 56,000 unique internet provider addresses.
"73% of traffic was from New Zealandand 12% from Australia, but there were also visits from practically every country in the world including Kazakhastan, Mongolia, Tanzania and Estonia," says Mr Henry.
"The website gave the public an extremely fast update of the election night results. The website calculated and updated the overall percentage of the vote and number of seats each party received at least every two minutes during the night."
The Chief Electoral Office provided the results data direct to major media organisations on election night for use in their election night broadcasts.
The www.electionresults.govt.nz site will be updated with the official results information once this process is completed. The Chief Electoral Office target to complete the official results is
, Saturday 1 October.
The elections website data and capability were supported and hosted by Wellington IT services company Catalyst IT with the assistance of Osmic Consulting and used Telecom's telecommunications infrastructure.