Foreword – Trevor Mallard Preface – Stephen Levine Overview of the Election 1 Politics in a Pandemic: New Zealand’s 2020 election – Stephen Levine Party Leaders’ Perspectives 2 The Prime Minister’s reflections: Campaigning in the midst of a pandemic – Jacinda Ardern 3 Covid-19 and the ‘team of 5 million’ – Chris Hipkins 4 Growing Green support from a position of government – Marama Davidson and James Shaw 5 National: The leader’s perspective – Judith Collins 6 ACT II – David Seymour The 2020 New Zealand election – views from overseas 7 Jacindamania in Canada: Coverage in the Great White North – Tina Marie Barton 8 The 2020 New Zealand election: The view from Australia – Nicholas Economou and Zareh Ghazarian 9 ‘And the winner is . . . New Zealand’: The view from the UK – Tim Bale 10 Jacinda Ardern’s election: A European perspective – Aljoscha Kertesz 11 A faraway but close relationship: The view from Chile – Valentina Jofré Méndez Media Perspectives 12 Covering the 2020 election: Platforms and the plague – Henry Cooke 13 The 2020 election: A television journalist’s perspective – Tova O’Brien 14 A tale of two campaigns: Covid vs Chaos: Mainstream media coverage of the lead-up to Election 2020 – Mark Boyd 15 Social media, online politics and the 2020 election – Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 16 ‘Getting closer to the truth’: The 2020 election cartoons as commentary, protest and critique – Michael Grimshaw Public Policy Issues and Jacinda Ardern’s Government 17 The 2020 election, the Covid-19 emergency, and the need to improve our response capacity for even more serious threats – Michael G. Baker 18 Well-being and the Covid crunch: The economy and the 2020 election – Simon Chapple 19 Housing and the Sixth Labour Government – Brodie Fraser 20 The Christchurch shooting and the 2020 New Zealand election – Ayca Arkilic 21 New Zealand’s foreign and defence policy, 2017–2020 – Robert Ayson The Campaign, the Results and the Formation of the Government 22 ‘Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?’: New Zealand election signs in 2020 – Nigel S. Roberts 23 The 2020 cannabis and euthanasia referendums – Luke D. Oldfield and Lara M. Greaves 24 Political party funding and the 2020 election – Michael Macaulay 25 Performing politics: Leaders’ debates in the 2020 election – Geoffrey Craig 26 Why Labour won: Survey findings and the 2020 election – Stephen Mills, Marcus Downs and Thomas Butt 27 Populism in the 2020 campaign and the departure of New Zealand First – Margaret Joiner 28 Māori and the 2020 election – Lara M. Greaves and Ella Morgan 29 Echoes: The 2020 election in historical perspective – Colin James 30 ‘Window on Wairarapa’: Kieran McAnulty and Labour’s 2020 COVID campaign – Campbell Garrett 31 A campaign for the ages: Chlöe Swarbrick, the youth vote and the Auckland Central election – Bonnie Hayvice 32 Special votes and the 2020 election – Therese Arseneau and Nigel S. Roberts 33 Government formation in 2020 – Stephen Church Epilogue 34 Jacinda Ardern and political leadership: The story thus far – Stephen Levine