How New Zealand is governed

 New Zealand is a democracy because of the way our system runs, the way New Zealand is governed works by voting which political party goes into power or voting who is going to be New Zealand’s next/new prime minister. When there is an election held, citizens or people living in New Zealand from the age of 18 years and over get to vote, this voting process only happens every three years in New Zealand. In this election voters will have two votes, first vote is for whichever candidate gets the greatest number of votes each electorate wins a seat in the parliament and the second vote is the party vote.  

New Zealand's last election was in 2020 last year where New Zealanders had a total of 17 political parties to vote from. And in the end, the Labour party run by

Jacinda Ardern won being prime minister of New Zealand with a total

of 1,443,546 votes and 65 seats in parliament. 

In parliament there are a total of 120 seats and in order to create a government

you’ll need 61 seats or more out of the 120 seats. Sometimes when parties don't

have the enough number of seats they combine with other parties to reach the number of seats needed to form a government. Just like back in the 2017 election

in parliament where Labour, NZ first and Green party joined seats and formed a government with 63 seats. (Labour had 46 seats, NZ First had 9 seats and  Green party had 8 seats.)