The election record

Questions for any candidate

One fixed question for each reform the index tracks. They are the same for every candidate and every party, and each links to that reform's current reading in the index.

1. Do you support a public register of lobbying, so that who lobbies ministers and officials, and on what, can be seen?

   Current reading in the index: Lobbying register — Reform: Not yet, as of 20 September 2026.

2. Do you support a public register of beneficial ownership, so that the people who ultimately own and control a company can be seen?

   Current reading in the index: Beneficial ownership register — Reform: Not yet, as of 20 September 2026.

3. Do you support a central anti-corruption agency, with preventing and investigating corruption as its core aim?

   Current reading in the index: Anti-corruption agency — Reform: Not yet, as of 20 September 2026.

4. Do you support lowering the amount above which a political donor must be named?

   Current reading in the index: Donor-disclosure threshold — Reform: Not yet, as of 20 September 2026.

5. Should ministers be able to appoint public service chief executives directly, or should a merit process stay in charge? What is your reason?

   Current reading in the index: Ministerial control of public service appointments — Capture warning: Clear, as of 20 September 2026.

How parties voted

Only readings verified against Hansard, the official record of Parliament, are listed, and more are being read. Each party's vote is its party vote. A party that was not in the Parliament that voted shows Not in Parliament, which is not a vote.

Party donations

Each party files an annual donations return with the Electoral Commission. Amounts are in New Zealand dollars and include GST. The returns for 2024 and 2025 name the donor of every donation over $5,000; this page gives the sum and the number of those donations and names no donor. The threshold is $6,000 for donations received from 1 January 2026. Anonymous donations are reported over $1,500. The Electoral Commission’s rules for party donations and loans.

Parties are listed alphabetically, then by year. Every figure in a row comes from the return linked in that row. Protected donations are payments of donations protected from disclosure, as the return reports them.

What parties have published

Each reform below lists, in a table and in alphabetical order, the parties that published a commitment. Quotations are copied character for character from the party's own published policy pages and documents, each with its document and the document's year; where a page carries no date, the year shown is the year it was read. Parties with no commitment found in the pages read on 1 October 2026 are named in one line below, also in alphabetical order, with the pages checked for each. A party may publish more before the election, so a missing quotation says nothing about what a party intends.