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- ↑ "Official Count Results -- Overall Status". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
- ↑ "Outdoor Recreation splits from United Future". The New Zealand Herald . 27 March 2006. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
- ↑ Three parties less chasing party vote