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! colspan=2 rowspan=2 width=200 |Party
! rowspan=2 |Votes
! colspan=2 |% of votes
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| style="text-align:left;" |National
| style="text-align:right;" | 673,892
| style="text-align:right;" | 35.05
| style="text-align:right;" | -12.78
| style="text-align:right;" | 50
| style="text-align:right;" | -17
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| style="text-align:left;" |Labour
| style="text-align:right;" | 666,759
| style="text-align:right;" | 34.68
| style="text-align:right;" | -0.46
| style="text-align:right;" | 45
| style="text-align:right;" | +16
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| style="text-align:left;" |Alliance
| style="text-align:right;" | 350,064
| style="text-align:right;" | 18.21
| style="text-align:right;" | +3.93<sup>a</sup>
| style="text-align:right;" | 2
| style="text-align:right;" | +1<sup>b</sup>
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| style="text-align:left;" |NZ First
| style="text-align:right;" | 161,481
| style="text-align:right;" | 8.40
| style="text-align:right;" | +8.4
| style="text-align:right;" | 2
| style="text-align:right;" | +2
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| style="text-align:left;" |Christian Heritage
| style="text-align:right;" | 38,749
| style="text-align:right;" | 2.02
| style="text-align:right;" | +1.49
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | –
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| style="text-align:left;" |McGillicuddy Serious
| style="text-align:right;" | 11,706
| style="text-align:right;" | 0.61
| style="text-align:right;" | +0.06
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | –
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| style="text-align:left;" |Natural Law
| style="text-align:right;" | 6,056
| style="text-align:right;" | 0.31
| style="text-align:right;" | +0.31
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | –
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| style="text-align:left;" |Mana Māori
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,342
| style="text-align:right;" | 0.17
| style="text-align:right;" | +0.17
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | –
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| style="text-align:left;" |minor parties and independents
| style="text-align:right;" | 10,747
| style="text-align:right;" | 0.56
| style="text-align:right;" | +0.34
| style="text-align:right;" | 0
| style="text-align:right;" | –
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| colspan=2 style="text-align:center;" |total votes
| 1,922,796
| 100.00
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| 99
| +2
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| style="text-align:center;" colspan=2 |total registered electors
| style="text-align:right;" |2,321,664
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|style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" colspan=5 |82.82%
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<sup>a</sup> Increase over Alliance's constituent member parties' (Greens, NewLabour, Democrats and Mana Motuhake) combined vote share in .<br />
<sup>b</sup> Increase of one over Alliance's constituent party, NewLabour's result in .
Votes summary
Electorate results
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<section begin="Electorate results" />The table below shows the results of the 1993 general election by electorate:
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| style="text-align:center;background-color:;" | Warren Kyd
| style="text-align:right;" | 1,870
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| style="text-align:center;" | Jeanette Fitzsimons
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Table footnotes:
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Summary of changes
Based on the 1991 New Zealand census, an electoral redistribution was carried out; the last one had been carried out in 1987 based on the previous census in 1986. This resulted in the abolition of nine electorates, and the creation of eleven new electorates. Through an amendment in the Electoral Act in 1965, the number of electorates in the South Island was fixed at 25, so the new electorates increased the number of the North Island electorates by two. In the South Island, one electorate was abolished (), and one electorate was recreated (). In the North Island, five electorates were newly created (, , , , and ), five electorates were recreated (, Hauraki, , , and ), and eight electorates were abolished (, , , , , , , and ).
In many cases an MP from an abolished seat stood for, and was elected to a new one that broadly covered their previous electorate.
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New electorates.
- Eastern Bay of Plenty – most of the abolished East Cape seat, plus part of Tarawera. Won by former East Cape MP Tony Ryall.
- Far North – most of the abolished Bay of Islands seat. Won by former Bay of Islands MP John Carter.
- Franklin – part of the abolished Maramarua seat and part of Papakura. Won by former Maramarua MP Bill Birch.
- Hauraki – parts of the abolished Clevedon, Maramarua, and Coromandel seats. Won by former Clevedon MP Warren Kyd.
- Henderson – parts taken from the West Auckland, Te Atatu, and Titirangi electorates. Won by former West Auckland MP Jack Elder (Labour).
- Howick – the eastern part of the Otara seat. Won by former Otara MP Trevor Rogers (National).
- Matakana – part of the abolished Coromandel seat. Won by former Coromandel MP Graeme Lee.
- Onslow – the core of the abolished Ohariu seat. Won by former Ohariu MP Peter Dunne (Labour).
- Rakaia – the abolished Ashburton seat, plus part of the Selwyn seat. Won by former Ashburton MP Jenny Shipley (National).
- Waitakere – chiefly, the abolished seat of West Auckland. Won by former Te Atatu MP Brian Neeson (National).
- Wellington-Karori – the abolished Wellington Central seat, plus part of the abolished Ohariu seat. Won by new National MP Pauline Gardiner.
The seats of Gisborne, Hamilton East, Hamilton West, Hastings, Horowhenua, Invercargill, Lyttelton, Manawatu, Miramar, New Plymouth, Onehunga, Otara, Roskill, Te Atatu, Timaru, Titirangi, Tongariro, Wanganui and West Coast were won from the National Party by Labour challengers. Seventeen of these seats (Gisborne, Hamilton East, Hamilton West, Hastings, Horowhenua, Lyttelton, Manawatu, Miramar, New Plymouth, Onehunga, Otara, Roskill, Te Atatu, Titirangi, Tongariro, Wanganui & the West Coast) had been won by National from Labour in 1990, so were one-term National seats.
- The seat of Auckland Central was won from the Labour Party by an Alliance challenger. The challenger was Sandra Lee and the defeated incumbent was Richard Prebble.
- The seat of Northern Maori was won from the Labour Party by a New Zealand First challenger. The challenger was Tau Henare and the defeated incumbent was Bruce Gregory.
- The seat of Awarua passed from an incumbent National MP to a new National MP.
- The seat of Pencarrow passed from an incumbent Labour MP to a new Labour MP.
Post-election events
A number of local by-elections were required due to the resignation of incumbent local body politicians following their election to Parliament:
- A by-election to the Auckland City Council was caused after Hauraki Gulf Islands Ward councillor Sandra Lee resigned her seat after she was elected MP for , necessitating a by-election to fill the council vacancy. The by-election was won by Gordon Hodson.