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Scoop Today - Election Weekend Top 20
The top 20 rating items on Scoop on election weekend were...
1: Scoop
Election Results - Table
(details)
Election results table with details of seats, party vote, total vote cast....updated every five minutes.
2:
Americas
Cup - Prada Leads Table As RR2
Ends
Round Robin two of the Louis Vuitton Cup Challenger Selection Series ended after three previously cancelled matches were re-sailed from Race 6 of 14 November. Team Prada's yacht Luna Rossa completed the Round Robin yesterday with a total of 46 points, ...
3:
Scoop
Election Results - Electorates
Table
Who is winning where, who is second and what they are on....updated every 5 minutes....
4:
SHIPLEY
CONCEDES – NZ HAS A NEW
GOVERNMENT
The centre-left has won the general election with news that Jenny Shipley, leader of the National Party and Prime Minister, has phoned Labour Leader Helen Clark and conceded defeat.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
5:
Scoop
Column: Frankenstein Government
Ahead
The only thing that can be said with any degree of certainty on the basis of current polling is that either Green Leaders Jeanette McDonald and Rod Donald will hold the balance of power come 10pm tomorrow night or…….taratraratrara… Winston will. More ...
6:
NZ
First And Greens On The Ropes
Both the Greens and NZ First are very close to the threshold level of 5% and up to 20% of the vote in this election could end up being discarded.
7:
Americas
Cup: Three Great Matches End
RR2
Round Robin Two of the Louis Vuitton Cup finished with a flourish on Saturday. Three matches, rescheduled from Race Six, were sailed today. The matches were outstanding - all at one point featured good close match racing by teams fighting for precious ...
8:
Coromandel
Critical As Labour Set For
Victory
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.
9:
Scoop
Images: A Hobbit Summer
House?
Scoop is proud to present another image of Hobbitton… this time of what appears to be a fairly grand Hobbit summer house …enjoy.
10:
So
Just What Is The Third
Way?
During the election campaign few journalists or political commentators picked-up on Helen Clark's comments about the “Third Way”. So what is the “Third Way” which America's Clinton, Britain’s Blair and Germany's Schroeder have been following. John ...
11:
HARD
NEWS 26/11/99 - Bring it On!
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... well, we're nearly there. I had intended to deliver a high-minded meditation on the need for change. Indeed, I will. But before that perhaps we ought to look at the campaign - and at ourselves.
12:
Is
Cullen A Clone? And What About
Helen?
Having been out of the country for a while Sally has romped back to catch the dying days of the century. Believe me, compared to some other parts of the world, NZ is pretty groovy. In fact I would go as far to say, that apart from a terminal attraction ...
13:
Election
1999: Hemp for Victory, say
legalisers
"The key to any centre-left spending spree is a new green industry", said Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party analysts today, on the eve of the Millennium Election.
14:
Scoop
Images: Polling Day In Aro Valley
Photo Essay - You Will Vote - Why Can't I vote? - Have you voted yet? asks dog - what! you want four votes? - No. I'm sorry, but you can't change your mind.
15:
Labour
Alliance Win With 63 Seats – Greens
Wilting
Both TV transmissions in New Zealand have now ceased for the night but counting is continuing....
16:
Labour/Alliance
Have 59 Seats
But With Winston and Jeanette Fitzsimons now ahead again in the Coromandel (174 ahead) and Tauranga (471 ahead – nearly closed) we have another picture.
17:
Deutsche
Bank Research: NZ Election
Results
Preliminary poll results suggest that Labour and the Alliance will be able to form a majority government without the involvement of the Green Party. Labour and the Alliance control 63 out of 120 seats.
18:
The
Sumner Scene - Target For Voyeurs: Shame On
Us
Earlier in the year TV3 screened a heavily promoted episode of its high rating show, Target. The show contained a segment that revealed a plumber doing something inappropriate into a pair of womans panties.
19:
Lindsay
Perigo's Election Editorial
So, sheeple, you're about to elect an even bossier shepherd, with even more ferocious dogs. Well, sheeple, you are pathetic, dumb, gormless non-entities, mindlessly baaaaaa-ing & braying & begging for the shepherd's commands & the dogs' snarling & biting, surrendering ...
20:
Scoop
Images: And The Band Played
On
Readers who have seen the (highly recommended *****) documentary movie Campaign will recall a scene on the Wellington Waterfront in which Richard Prebble – fighting to save ACT from oblivion – holds a festive final rally. The soundtrack features a hired ...
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Scoop Publisher
Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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