The day after the Unionparty election victory, the number of visits from Australia on the New Zealand Immigration Service`s website quadrupled.
More than 11500 Australians opened the New Zealand Immigration Service website and its information site New Zealand Now, on Sunday, compared with less than 2500 last Sunday.
Google Analysis also showed that the number of Australians searching for the word "move to New Zealand" soared, with especially from Queensland.
However, it is difficult to measure how many Australians want to emigrate to New Zealand after the election, because Australian citizen does not need any visas to go to New Zealand, although visa holders do.
However, the number of people who have submitted letters of intent and started the visa process has skyrocketed from 20 to 715.
Francis (Greg Forsythe), a national manager at the New Zealand Migration Board, said the sharp increase in site visits might not translate into the number of people actually taking action.
After the election, Australians have been busy discussing the results on social media platforms, admiring New Zealand`s female Prime Minister Alden (Jacinda Ardern) and disillusionment with their country`s politics.
After the election results were released, voters in many other states angrily asked Kunzhou to "get out of Australia" (Quexit), and even produced a "new version of the map of Australia," because Unionparty was re-elected because of the good state election. The place where Kunzhou is located has been directly replaced with the South Pacific.
Scholars say these reflect the frustration of progressive people about Unionparty`s victory.
Curtin (Jennifer Curtin), a professor of political science at the University of Auckland, said interest in immigration could be short-lived, reflecting the surprise and disappointment of some voters at Labour`s failure to win.
That sentiment is likely to fade, she said, as the reality of economic, which emigrates to New Zealand, becomes clearer.
But she added that New Zealand and its politics are very attractive to Australian progressives and environmentalists, many of whom have visited New Zealand as tourists.
After Trump won the U.S. presidential election in 2016, Americans searching for "emigrated to Canada" at Google also soared.
Whatever the reason, minister Iain Lees-Galloway, a New Zealand immigration, said he was not surprised by Australians` interest. "New Zealand is a great destination full of possibilities," he said. "I`m not surprised. If Australians are thinking about us, that`s great."
