With 3.3% of the vote counted the percentages in the party vote have been fairly static for around an hour now and a
Labour/Alliance/Green coalition appears to have a majority of around six seats.
However with the Greens on 4.8% - under the 5% threshold – and National’s Murray McLean ahead in the crucial seat of
Coromandel we are still headed for a nail-biter yet.
(continuing)