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Return of citizens initiated referenda poll votes – reducing the number of MPs in Parliament

New Zealand Government

December 1/1999
Question: Should the size of the House of Representatives be reduced from 120 members to 99 members?

 

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Chapter 10: Direct democracy on trial

by Jeffrey Karp and Peter Aimer
The citizens-initiated referendums. When New Zealanders went to the polling booths on election day in 1999, some were surprised to be issued with a bundle of papers. Auckland University Press  January 29/2002

 

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Liberals break promise on electoral reform

Ottawa MP Ed Broadbent blasts cynical betrayal. New Democratic Party (NDP)  October 6/2005  Full story »