Wow what an election! We've seen candidates promise to streak, a bomb scare in Tauranga, pies being flung in candidates' faces, the prime minister being shouted down at a university campus, a plane hijacking, and finally a neck-and-neck election count!
Last night, watching both TV ONE and TV3's election coverage simultaneously (yeah I'm a bit of a news and political junkie!) was thrilling and more tense than an All Blacks vs Australia game! National were way ahead in the beginning, with most commentators writing off any hope of Labour getting back in. Nonetheless, Labour began to creep back up till both were both at the same level, and then with the help of the South Auckland electorates Labou finally pulled ahead, but by only 1%!
Of course there was a plane hijacking amongst all this action, with the pilot threatening to crash into the Sky Tower. My dad got let off work early since his office building had to be evacuated! Now where was our air force when we needed it? Thank goodness it was only a Cessna and the police helicoptor was able to keep up with it!
Anyway, it is sad to see John Tamihere of Labour lose his seat, and it will be sad to see Matt Robson of the Progressives go as well. The next few weeks will be interesting though with special votes yet to be counted. With 200,000 of them it could change the final results which only saw Labour ahead of National by about 2,000. Will Labour win in the end and be able to form a stable coalition? Will Winston Peters challenge Bob Clarkson for the Tauranga seat? Will Keith Locke really run through Epsom naked? How long will Helen Clark be able to last this term? Will we have to hold another election before three years time? Only time will tell!
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