WELLINGTON: Christopher Luxon said it was a "tremendous privilege" to wake up Sunday as New Zealand's incoming prime minister as he eyed talks to form a new coalition government.

Voters ended the six-year reign of the center-left Labor government on Saturday as Luxon's conservative National Party won enough seats to govern in a coalition with liberal party ACT.

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