Which party actually matches you?
The free NZ vote compass and political spectrum test for the 2026 general election.
Five minutes. Thirty plain questions. See exactly where you sit on the political spectrum and which of the six parties actually matches what you believe, checked against the real positions every party has published for 2026. Go into 7 November confident in your vote.
- questions
- 30questions5 in each of 6 sectors
- parties
- 6partiesevery party in Parliament
- sourced positions
- 180sourced positionseach with a link and a date
- personal data
- 0personal datascored in your browser; nothing identifying stored
What you'll be asked about
Six sectors, five questions each
Every sector gets equal weight, so the result reflects your whole outlook rather than whichever topic happens to have the most questions.
Economy, Tax & Cost of Living
Who pays tax and how much, how big the state should be, and who should own the banks, power companies and supermarkets.
Housing & Renting
Rent rules, state house building, help for first-home buyers, and whether to loosen planning rules to build more.
Health & Education
Free doctor's visits, how schools teach and test, school choice, and whether Māori-led health services should return.
Climate, Energy & Environment
Emissions targets, oil and gas, farming's climate obligations, mining, and river water quality.
Law, Order & Justice
Sentencing, prisons, police numbers, gangs, and whether justice should lean toward punishment or prevention.
Te Tiriti, Rights & Immigration
The place of Te Tiriti o Waitangi in government, the Māori electorates, te reo Māori, and how many people should move here.
Who you're scored against
All six parties in Parliament
Listed alphabetically, never by poll position or match score, because the order things appear in changes how people read them.
- David Seymour11 seats in 2023
ACT New Zealand
Classical-liberal party campaigning on lower and flatter taxes, a smaller state, deregulation and equal citizenship before the law.
- Marama Davidson & Chlöe Swarbrick15 seats in 2023
Green Party of Aotearoa New ZealandRōpū Kākāriki
Left-green party campaigning on taxing wealth to fund public services, rapid decarbonisation, mass public housing and Te Tiriti-based partnership.
- Chris Hipkins34 seats in 2023
New Zealand Labour PartyRōpū Reipa
Centre-left party campaigning on a targeted capital gains tax to fund free doctor's visits, cheaper public transport and rebuilt public services.
- Christopher Luxon48 seats in 2023
New Zealand National Party
Centre-right party campaigning on low taxes, a return to surplus, tougher sentencing, compulsory KiwiSaver and planning reform to build more.
- Winston Peters8 seats in 2023
New Zealand First
Socially conservative party campaigning on state ownership of banking and energy, lower migration and a referendum on the Māori electorates.
- Debbie Ngarewa-Packer & Rawiri Waititi6 seats in 2023
Te Pāti Māori
Tino rangatiratanga party campaigning on Te Tiriti-based constitutional transformation, Māori-led health, education and justice authorities, and taxing wealth.
Every position is cited
Each party's stance on each question links to that party's own policy page, manifesto or a report of their announcement, with the date we last checked it. If you think we've got one wrong, you can see our source and tell us.
The maths is public
The scoring is simple arithmetic you could do on paper, and it's written out in full on the methodology page. The same answers always give the same result. No model, no black box, no AI deciding anything.
We test for our own bias
Before anything is published we test the questions themselves: that agreeing with every statement leaves you in the centre rather than on one side, that no party is favoured by the way the questions are framed, and that answering as a party would returns that party. Where the method has limits, we publish those too.
Common questions
About the NZ vote compass
- What is a vote compass?
- A vote compass is a tool that asks where you stand on the issues in an election, then compares your answers with what each party has actually promised. NZVoteCheck asks 30 questions across six policy areas and shows you a percentage match with all six parties in Parliament, plus where you sit on the political spectrum.
- How does the political spectrum chart work?
- Your answers are plotted on two axes. Left to right measures economics, from a larger state to a freer market. Up and down measures social and constitutional questions, from traditional to progressive. Every party is placed on the same chart using the same calculation applied to their own published positions, so your dot and theirs are directly comparable.
- Is NZVoteCheck free?
- Yes. It is free, there is no account, no sign-up and no email required, and it carries no advertising. It is funded personally rather than by any party, donor or lobby group.
- How long does the quiz take?
- About five minutes for the 30 questions. You can skip anything you are unsure about, and each question has an optional panel explaining what the policy actually means and who it affects if you want more before answering.
- Which parties does it cover?
- All six parties currently in Parliament: National, Labour, the Green Party, ACT, NZ First and Te Pāti Māori. Every one of the 180 party positions links to the source it came from and the date it was last checked.
- Is it politically neutral?
- That is the design goal, and we publish the evidence rather than just claiming it. The questions are tested for balance before publication and revised when they fail. We also publish where the method has limits, including the fact that this style of scoring slightly favours parties with moderate positions.
Takes about five minutes
You can skip anything you're unsure about, and flag the issues that matter most to you so they count for more.
Start the quizNot enrolled yet? You can enrol and vote on the same day at vote.nz.