Incumbent prime minister Jacinda Ardern has won a historic victory after New Zealand headed to the ballot boxes.

Throughout the election, polling suggested that Ms Ardern’s Labour Party would secure 45 per cent of the vote – enough for them to govern alone, in a first for any of the island nation’s ruling parties since it introduced a proportional voting system in 1996.

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