Spare a thought for everyone who has to write analysis of a uniformly unambiguous result, and they're not allowed to say "people liked Jacinda that's why Labour won lots of votes that's why they won".

https://amp.rnz.co.nz/article/734c247d-05a3-45e6-a4a8-ad52730cb7c9?__twitter_impression=true

It's all an exercise in theory of mind, to presume to know what hundreds of thousands of nameless voters are thinking. But the central problem is always that the bit that moves is the trickiest bit.

Is it reaallly likely that hundreds of thousands of people voted strategically? All across the country? In a way that is counterintuitive? (And also... not really that sound an idea when you map it out?) And is it likely that the people most fearful of the Greens...

...the people most activated by negative partisanship, that *they* are the ones to vote for Labour?