diff --git a/Applications/Utils/ModelPreparation/PartitionMesh/NodeWiseMeshPartitioner.cpp b/Applications/Utils/ModelPreparation/PartitionMesh/NodeWiseMeshPartitioner.cpp
index 69b07e02b677294ba0fb52696c1e6da02737686d..544b8d237276904d7bc9abd2dbec52e4d585f314 100644
--- a/Applications/Utils/ModelPreparation/PartitionMesh/NodeWiseMeshPartitioner.cpp
+++ b/Applications/Utils/ModelPreparation/PartitionMesh/NodeWiseMeshPartitioner.cpp
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ void NodeWiseMeshPartitioner::writePropertiesBinary(
     {
         MeshLib::IO::PropertyVectorPartitionMetaData pvpmd;
         pvpmd.offset = offset;
-        pvpmd.number_of_tuples = partition.number_of_non_ghost_nodes;
+        pvpmd.number_of_tuples = partition.nodes.size();
         MeshLib::IO::writePropertyVectorPartitionMetaData(out, pvpmd);
         offset += pvpmd.number_of_tuples;
     }