41st New Zealand Parliament

41st Parliament of New Zealand
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Parliament House, Wellington
Overview
Term	15 August 1984 – 29 July 1987
Election	New Zealand general election, 1984
Government	Fourth Labour Government
House of Representatives
Members	95
Speaker of the House	Gerard Wall ––Basil Arthur until 1 May 1985 †
Leader of the House	Geoffrey Palmer
Prime Minister	David Lange
Leader of the Opposition	Jim Bolger ––Jim McLay until 26 March 1986
Sovereign
Monarch	HM Elizabeth II
Governor-General	HE The Rt Rev. Sir Paul Reeves ––HE The Hon. Sir David Beattie until 22 November 1985
Sessions
1st 15 August 1984 – 12 December 1985 2nd 26 February 1986 – 29 July 1987

The 41st New Zealand Parliament was a term of the Parliament of New Zealand. Its composition was determined by the 1984 elections, and it sat until the 1987 elections.

The 41st Parliament was the first term of the fourth Labour Party government. It marked the end of three terms of National Party administration under Robert Muldoon. David Lange become Prime Minister and Roger Douglas became Minister of Finance — the economic reforms undertaken by Douglas, nicknamed Rogernomics, would prove to be a defining feature of the fourth Labour government, and were deeply unpopular with Labour's traditional support base. The National Party, now in opposition, experienced a number of leadership disputes, replacing Muldoon first with Jim McLay and then with Jim Bolger.

The 41st Parliament consisted of ninety-five representatives, the highest number since the 10th Parliament (elected in 1887). All of these representatives were chosen by single-member geographical electorates, including four special Māori electorates.

Electoral boundaries for the 41st Parliament

Overview of seats

The table below shows the number of MPs in each party following the 1984 election and at dissolution:

Notes

• The Working Government majority is calculated as all Government MPs less all other parties.

Initial composition of the 41st Parliament

The tables below shows the results of the 1984 general election:

Key

Table footnotes:

By-elections during 41st Parliament

There were a number of changes during the term of the 41st Parliament.

Notes

References

• Norton, Clifford (1988). New Zealand Parliamentary Election Results 1946-1987: Occasional Publications No 1, Department of Political Science. Wellington: Victoria University of Wellington. ISBN 0-475-11200-8.