New Zealand's Government.

New Zealand’s government is a democracy, with parts of Monarchy. We have a system called an MMP, Mixed Member Proportional which is a democratic system but also have a monarch at the head of our government. A Mixed Member Proportional operates by the voter voting twice. One vote is towards the political party the voter chooses. This is the party vote. The second vote is to choose the MP the voter wants to represent the area they live in. This is called the electorate vote. For the electorate vote, it’s a majority vote, you would not have to get over half the votes to win. The party vote largely decides the total number of seats each political party gets in Parliament. In the current rules, a party that wins at least one seat or 5 percent of the party vote gets a share of seats in the Parliament that is the around the same as it’s party vote. For example, let's say a party gets 30 percent of the party vote, they would get around 36 MPs in Parliament. With this system, our country is counted as a democracy.