How does MMP Work

How Does MMP Work

What does MMP stand for? MMP stands for Mixed Member Proportional.

In the MMP system you have 2 votes, the first vote is for the party that you prefer, this is the vote that largely decides the total number of seats each party will have of the 120 seats in parliament.The second vote is to choose a person to represent your local electric in parliament under MMP NZ is divided into 70 electrics.Who ever gets the most votes will become your local MP.

To get any seats in parliament a party must reach at least 5% or more of the the party vote or with an electric seat.If 30% of us vote for Labour then it will fill 40% of the all the seats in parliament,If 10% of us vote for National the it will fill up 10% of the seats.

Catching Flounder

This Morning Pt England School went to the Beach to watch some of our students and teachers catch some Flounder.First we lined up out on the hard courts to listen to the instructions that Mr Burt was giving us. When he was finished giving out instructions, Year 1 went out to the crossing and they were of to the beach. Then it was Year 2,Year 3 and so on. When we got to the beach we sang a waiata and then we said a karakia. After that we were on our way back to school.We are only catching baby Flounder and we are putting them in our tank, and when they are bigger we are going to give them back to the ocean.The other school caught 4 Flounder. And we were trying our best to beat them and we did. YAYYYY!!!!