Last month, New Zealand prime minister John Key won a thumping election victory. His National party was not only returned for a third term: it increased both its share of votes and number of seats, blitzed the Labour opposition by two votes to one and, for the first time since New Zealand’s Mixed Member Proportional voting system started in 1996, one party won an absolute majority of seats.
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