New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern's Labour Party registers landslide victory in general elections

 New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern's Labour Party registers landslide victory in general elections

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern won in New Zealand’s general elections.

With 87 per cent of the vote counted, Ardern’s Labour Party won a landslide victory with 49 per cent support, heading to its biggest share of the vote since the 1930s.

 The opposition National Party slumped to 27per cent.

Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern is a New Zealand politician who has served as the 40th prime minister of New Zealand and leader of the Labour Party since 2017.

First elected to the House of Representatives as a list MP in 2008, she has been the member of Parliament for Mount Albert since March 2017.

New Zealand is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses the North Island and the South Island  and around 600 smaller islands, covering a total area of 268,021 square kilometres

Capital: Wellington
Population: 48.9 lakhs (2018) World Bank
Continent: Oceania
Currency    :New Zealand dollar