The 31st New Zealand Parliament was a term of the New Zealand Parliament. It was elected at the 1954 general election on 13 November of that year.
The 1954 general election was held on Saturday, 13 November. A total of 80 MPs were elected; 50 represented North Island electorates, 26 represented South Island electorates, and the remaining four represented MÃÂori electorates; this was a gain of one electorate for the North Island from the South Island since the . 1,209,670 voters were enrolled and the official turnout at the election was 91.4%.
The 31st Parliament sat for three sessions, and was prorogued on 25 October 1957.
The National Party under Sidney Holland had been in power since the , and Holland remained in charge until 1957, when he stepped down due to ill health in September 1957 some two months prior to the . Holland was succeeded by Keith Holyoake, but the Labour Party narrowly defeated National at the 1957 election, and the government changed in mid-December of that year.
The table below shows the number of MPs in each party following the 1954 election and at dissolution:
Notes
There were a number of changes during the term of the 31st Parliament.