The Electoral Act 1993 provides for the remaining seats to be elected from party lists using the Sainte-Laguë method to realise proportionality to an expected total of at least 120 MPs.

Christopher Luxon of the National Party formed a coalition government with ACT and New Zealand First and was sworn in as prime minister on 27 November 2023.

After three weeks of negotiations, Christopher Luxon announced the formation of a coalition government with ACT and New Zealand First on 24 November.

[19] In February 2024, the Government repealed the Three Waters reform programme, Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Act 2022 and disestablished Te Aka Whai Ora (the Māori Health Authority) under urgency.

[23] The Government also passed legislation requiring electric cars and plug-in hybrids to pay road user charges.

[24] In mid April 2024, the Government passed the legislation allowing 11 pseudoephedrine cold and flu medicines to be sold without prescriptions from June 2024.

[25] In late July 2024, the Government passed legislation reinstating the referendum requirement for Māori wards and constituencies in local councils.

Councils that had previously established a Māori ward without a referendum are now required to hold a binding poll alongside the 2025 New Zealand local elections or to disestablish them.

[27] In September 2024, Parliament passed a private member's bill amending the Fair Trading Act 1986 to ensure that gift cards have a minimum expiry date of three years from their initial purchase.

[28] In mid October 2024, Parliament passed Deborah Russell's private member's bill exempting victims of domestic violence from waiting a mandatory two years to seek a divorce.

[29] In late October 2024, National-led government passed the resource management legislation easing the "regulatory burden" on the country's farming, mining and other primary industries.

[31] On 12 December 2024, Parliament passed the government's legislation introducing its pet bonds for tenants and reinstating 90 day no-cause evictions.

[38] On 10 December 2024, Labour MP Peeni Henare, Te Pāti Māori MPs Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, co-leaders Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer were referred to the Privileges Committee for leading a haka (ka mate) that interrupted vote proceedings during the first reading of the Treaty Principles Bill on 14 November.

[39] On 29 January 2025, the Green Party sent a letter asking Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Speaker of the House Gerry Brownlee to condemn alleged racist and xenophobic remarks made by New Zealand First MPs and government ministers Winston Peters and Shane Jones towards several Green MPs from migrant backgrounds.

Under section 17 of the Constitution Act 1986, Parliament expires three years "from the day fixed for the return of the writs issued for the last preceding general election of members of the House of Representatives, and no longer".