The countdown to Election Day is on - with the Prime Minister revealing people will head to the polls on September the 19th.
The date coincides with Suffrage Day - 127 years since women won the right to vote in New Zealand.
Jacinda Ardern's proclamation comes early in the year in keeping with a precedent first set by the former National leader and Prime Minister John Key.
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