With 25% of the votes counted, Labour leads the party vote on 50,4%. National has 25.9%, Greens 8.2% and Act 7.7%.

The current situations in the southern electorates are:

INVERCARGILL

VOTES COUNTED: 7,671 24.2%

LEADING CANDIDATE: CRAIG, Liz 3,737

2nd CANDIDATE: SIMMONDS, Penny 3,029

CURRENT MARGIN: 708

PARTY VOTE LEAD: Labour Party 51.6%

2nd PARTY: National Party25.8%

SOUTHLAND

VOTES COUNTED: 15,492 25.8%

LEADING CANDIDATE: MOONEY, Joseph 7,434

2nd CANDIDATE: MITCHELL, Jon 6,216

CURRENT MARGIN: 1,218

PARTY VOTE LEAD: Labour Party 41.5%

2nd PARTY: National Party 34.6%