46th Parliament of New Zealand
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Parliament House, Wellington
Overview
Legislative body	New Zealand Parliament
Term	20 December 1999 – 11 June 2002
Election	1999 New Zealand general election
Government	Fifth Labour Government
House of Representatives
Members	120
Speaker of the House	Jonathan Hunt
Leader of the House	Michael Cullen
Prime Minister	Helen Clark
Leader of the Opposition	Bill English —Jenny Shipley until8 October 2001
Sovereign
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Governor-General	Silvia Cartwright from 4 April 2001 —Michael Hardie Boys until 21 March 2001

The46th New Zealand Parliament was a term of theNew Zealand Parliament. Its composition was determined by the1999 election, and it sat until the2002 election.

The 46th Parliament marked a change of government, with a coalition of theLabour Party and theAlliance taking office.Helen Clark replacedJenny Shipley asPrime Minister. TheNational Party, which had formed aminority government for the last part of the45th Parliament, became the largest opposition party, eventually emerging under a new leader,Bill English. Other parties in Parliament wereACT, theGreens,New Zealand First, andUnited. Several parties represented at the end of the previous Parliament, such asMauri Pacific, were wiped out, failing to retain any of their seats.

The 46th Parliament consisted of one hundred and twenty representatives. Sixty-seven of these representatives were chosen by geographical electorates, including sixMāori electorates. The remainder were elected by means ofparty-list proportional representation under theMixed Member Proportional (MMP) electoral system.

The table below shows the number of MPs in each party following the 1999 election and at dissolution:

Notes

• The Working Government majority is calculated as all Government MPs less all other parties.
• ^CS The Green Party entered aconfidence and supply agreement with the Labour-Alliance coalition

46th New Zealand Parliament - MPs elected to Parliament

List MPs are ordered by allocation as determined by theChief Electoral Office^[1] and theparty lists.

There were no by-elections held during the term of the 46th Parliament.

• Don McKinnon, a National Party list MP, left Parliament in March 2000 to becomeSecretary-General of the Commonwealth. He was replaced byArthur Anae, the next candidate on the National Party list.
• Simon Upton, a National Party list MP, left Parliament in January 2001. He was replaced byAlec Neill, the next candidate on the National Party list.

The chamber is in a horseshoe-shape.^[2]

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