The future shape of our next government all comes out today.
While the preliminary votes for the election were all counted up, the results of the around 570 thousand left over special votes will be released at two this afternoon.
It will likely decide whether National and ACT will need New Zealand First to get into power.
Political Editor Jason Walls told Tim Dower that the majority of special votes do tend to favour the left.
He says people like John Key and Chris Bishop both expect to see National lose at least one seat today.
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