Peters yesterday hinted that he was not looking for the role of Deputy Prime Minister. "But in any case we are going to proceed with a negotiation on the basis of a fairly strong position for the National Party." Former prime minister Sir John Key described the election result as fantastic and "better than I could have". Labour was 10 percentage points behind National and the combined Labour and Greens were five points behind National. National lost only one seat, Christchurch Central - it also won Northland from Peters himself and Hutt South from Labour.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 24, 2017 18:56 UTC