WELLINGTON, New Zealand—New Zealand has voted ... whether to keep the British Union Jack on their flag or replace it with a silver fern. The current flag has been the national symbol since ...

New Zealand has voted to keep its current ... to decide whether to keep the one featuring the Union flag or replace it with a silver fern. The current flag has been the national symbol since ...

New Zealand, earlier this month. Picture: Hannah Peters / Getty Images Within an hour of the referendum result, 61 flags by Kyle Lockwood, who designed the silver fern alternative, were on sale on ...

The existing national flag won 56.6 per cent of the vote, compared to 43.2 per cent for the silver fern flag ... margin of around 285,000 votes. New Zealand would have a new flag if it were ...

The idea was to replace the colonial-era flag—the Southern Cross and the Union Jack on a blue background—with something uniquely Kiwi. New Zealand’s search for a new flag design took two ...

In a 57 to 43 per cent vote, the public opted to keep the flag rather than adopt a new flag, called the silver fern. New Zealand’s election commission said the voter turnout was 67 per cent ...

Here, the current New Zealand ... on the current flag — with a silver fern and black in the corner, was chosen in the first stage of the referendum in December. In New Zealand, the fern is ...

Ten months and tens of million dollars later, the existing flag has won an historic referendum with more than 56% of the vote ... s silver fern design in a variety of contexts to help New ...

Ten months and tens of million dollars later, the existing flag has won an historic referendum with more than 56% of the vote So, that’s it. After a 10 month, $26m process, New Zealand has ...

Preliminary results show that 56.6% voted for no change in the current flag that includes the Union Jack, while 43.1% opted for the new design called Silver Fern that had won an earlier ballot. Voter ...

New Zealand has voted to keep its current flag, rejecting an alternative design that was selected following a 10-month process. In a two-part referendum concluded on Thursday, 57 percent of voters ...

He has called the existing flag a relic of British colonial days, saying the silver fern used by the All Blacks "screams New Zealand" in the same way the ... Pacific nation of 4.5 million people for ...