Today’s content
Labour Party
John Armstrong (Herald): It's time for Labour to call a halt to all this madness
Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On Cunliffe’s Last Stand
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Labour woes: Rift between the Davids?
Brian Rudman (Herald): Labour must retake centre-left, with a new leader
Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): Time for sidelined Labour MPs to step up
Rob Salmond (Polity): Chicken bones: Median voter
Rob Hosking (NBR): Labour's woes: months of bloodletting lie ahead (paywalled)
Jono Natusch: The Labour numbers game
TVNZ: Cunliffe refuses to say sorry, pleads for halt to leaks
Corin Dann (TVNZ): Cunliffe to fight tooth and nail for leadership
Liam Hehir (Stuff): Resilient MP holds on against blue tide
Matt Nolan (TVHE): Uninformed political conjecture on “the left”
The Standard: Where’s the Whip?
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Two post-election mistakes that will haunt Cunliffe
Danyl McLauchlan (Dim-Post): Inevitable Labour pontification post
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): The Soap Box: Writing on the wall for Cunliffe
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Labour at loggerheads
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Carnage as Cunliffe clings on
Sarah Robson (Newswire): Experts to examine Labour's disastrous loss
Claire Trevett (Herald): Labour rift deepens over vote standoff
Adam Bennett (Herald): Cunliffe emerges from marathon meeting
Mike Smith (The Standard): No rush to judgment
Kiwipolitico: Big Vehicle
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Can Labour be saved? Why Whaleoil & National won and why we need a new media
Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): Today’s classifieds
Mike Smith (The Standard): Time to say thanks
Chris Ford (Voxy): Lessons for the Left in election result
Stuff: Labour's leadership contenders
Duncan Garner (RadioLive): Shearer vs Robertson vs Cunliffe
Steven Cowan (Against the current): A Clayton’s Labour campaign
Rob Hosking (NBR): Voters reject 'throwback socialism' (paywalled)
Nevil Gibson (NBR): Labour's left turn lies in tatters
NBR: Grant Robertson signals Labour leadership tilt
Audrey Young (Herald): Labour MPs: Leadership vote should wait
Claire Trevett (Herald): David Cunliffe pushes for early contest: Uncertainty is deeply damaging to the party
Kris Dando (Stuff): Leggett as Labour president?
Tim Watkin (Pundit): What Labour forgot: You've got to earn it
Greg Presland (The Standard): Labour’s leadership
Simon Wong (TV3): Cunliffe announces full Labour leadership vote
Newswire: Cunliffe backed by Unions despite loss
John Armstrong (Herald): Labour's morning of absolute mayhem
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Cunliffe battles Labour caucus
Rachel Smalley (Newstalk ZB): Too soon to discuss a new Labour leader
Bob Jones (Herald): Cunliffe should man up and quit
Brian Edwards: Some acting experience an advantage but not required.
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Labour’s woes increasing
Chris Trotter (Stuff): Political corpses in National's wake
National Party
Rachel Morton (TV3): Key extends olive branch to Peters
Audrey Young (Herald): Deals with National on the fast track
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): New National MPs welcomed
Wayne Hope (Daily Blog): One Party State
Dominion Post: Time is right for well-flagged debate
Patrick O’Meara (Radio NZ): National's proposed labour laws
Isaac Davison (Herald): National holds its first caucus meeting
Peter Hartcher (Stuff): John Key's a political rock star: Australia
Stuff: Young's challenge in going it alone
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Key open to working with NZ First
Adam Bennett (Herald): Key seeks more positive relationship with NZ First
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): I said the economy was an issue that matters
Katie Kenny (Stuff): John Key's rap battle goes global
3 News Online Staff (TV3): John Oliver mocks National’s Eminem stoush
Election results
Geoffrey Miller: 11 “game-changers” which weren’t for the 2014 New Zealand election
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The results by bloc
No Right Turn: The threshold has to go
No Right Turn: MMP, electorates, and misaligned incentives
The Wireless: 8 audacious election campaign moments
Grant Duncan (The Conversation): NZ PM John Key makes it three in a row as Labour goes backwards
International Socialists: Lessons to learn from bitter defeat
Rob Hosking (NBR): Brakes off for National, knives out for Labour (paywalled)
Chris Keall (NBR): Election 2014: The top five blunders (paywalled)
Chris Keall (NBR): Election 2014: Dotcom spends $577 per vote (paywalled)
Chris Keall (NBR): Hooton and Harre holidaying together? Right wing commentator comes clean (paywalled)
Chris Keall (NBR): Surprise: Internet Mana got 3.7% of the candidate vote (paywalled)
Nevil Gibson (NBR): Even losers can be winners under MMP (paywalled)
Campbell Gibson (NBR): Election night ratings: TVNZ vs TV3 (paywalled)
Nevil Gibson (NBR): Aussies draw lessons from John Key's victory
Duncan Bridgeman (NBR): Election result tipped to boost equities, power stocks especially (paywalled)
Penny Pepperell (NBR): Capital Letter: How far can the cut and thrust of politics go? (paywalled)
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): More election stats
Fightback: Where next: Reflections on a defeat
Matthew Dentith (Episto): On that election
Daphna Whitmore (Redline): Election 2014
Jack Vowles: The 2014 Election
Conservatives
Laura McQuillan (Newstalk ZB): Late Donations fall short for Conservative Party
Isaac Davison (Herald): Craig's crew failed to fire in city seats
Act
Ali Ikram (TV3): Hi, meet David Seymour
No Right Turn: ACT are rorters
Internet Mana
Matthew Beveridge: The rebrand has started
TV3: Harawira: 'The fight never dies'
Adam Bennett (Herald): Election 2014: Harawira 'comfortable' with Dotcom alliance
Voter turnout
Julian Lee (TV3): Why I don’t vote
Claire Allison (Timaru Herald): Editorial: Why such a low turnout?
Ele Ludemann (Homepaddock): Free to vote, free to not
Bryan Gould: The Election That Left One Third of Us Behind
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): A quality turnout trumps a mass turnout
Inequality and economy
Charlie Gates (Stuff): Christchurch voting patterns linked to income
Michael Fox (Stuff): Child poverty on Key agenda
Peter Lyons (ODT): What does it say when they kick in your front door?
Matt Nolan (TVHE): Bleg: Child poverty, problem definition and solutions
Jacqueline Rowarth (NBR): Crying poor hides good life realities (paywalled)
Other
Herald: Editorial: Intelligence useful tool to keep us safe
Steve Braunias (Stuff): The secret diary of . . . a dinner in Maraetai
Jody O’Callaghan (Stuff): John Key's school to be demolished
Marama Davidson (Herald): Hang tight everyone – Marama Davidson campaign reflection
Stephen Franks: Imagine if consumer law governed election propaganda
Muriel Newman (NZCPR): Election Roundup – Looking Forward
Barry Soper (Nestalk ZB): The Soap Box: Dunne a political gun for hire
Peter Cresswell (Not PC): Election wrap
Peter Cresswell (Not PC): ‘I heart fossil fuels’ at the #People’sClimateMarch
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): How the pollsters did
Mark Hubbard (Life Behind the Iron Drape): My Random Unstructured Thoughts on NZ’s 2014 Election.
Alliance: The Small Party Problem