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Maori polling booth
Maori voters at Rotorua, about 1908
Polling booth, 1996
Election cartoon, 1972
Women voting in 1893
Women voting in Auckland, 1899
Wellington crowds on election night, 1931
'Liberal' candidate's poster, 1853
1853 electoral poster
Liberal and Labour Federation poster
John A Lee in 1938
National Party poster, 1946
Robert Muldoon campaigning, 1981
Gordon Coates Reform Party poster
Labour Party poster, 1938
Labour Party poster, 1957
National Party poster, 1960
Electors queuing to vote, 1960
David Lange celebrating 1984 election victory
1911 film of electioneering in Wellington
Interview with Prime Minister Keith Holyoake, 1963
Film showing scenes from the 1954 election
Labour Party TV commercial, 1969
Dancing Cossacks political TV ad
First radio broadcast of Parliament
Sound: women voting for the first time
