Election 2026: Opportunity's Daniel Eb reflects on campaign as votes counted

With over a quarter of the vote counted, Labour has pushed ahead of National, and Opportunity remains just above the crucial five percent threshold.

The Opportunity Party's currently got six seats - but the party doesn't want to get too far ahead of itself just yet.

The party's deputy leader, Daniel Eb, says it's looking positive and they're in a good mood about it all.

"We are a new party coming into Parliament, we believe we'll make New Zealand political history, so having opportunity to get our feet in the door and learn, but also sort of build on fresh ideas that we've got and the new energy we'll bring - that could work." 

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