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86 days until the election · Saturday 7 November 2026

Which party actually matches you?

Thirty plain-English questions on the things that decide this election. No jargon, no spin, no AI guessing. You'll see where you sit on the political spectrum, which of the six parliamentary parties your views line up with, and, for every single position exactly where we got it from.

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; sharing is opt-in

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.

  • ACT New Zealand

    Classical-liberal party campaigning on lower and flatter taxes, a smaller state, deregulation and equal citizenship before the law.

    David Seymour11 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.

    Marama Davidson & Chlöe Swarbrick15 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.

    Chris Hipkins34 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.

    Christopher Luxon48 seats in 2023
  • New Zealand First

    Economically interventionist populist party campaigning on state ownership of banking and energy, sharply lower migration and a referendum on the Māori electorates.

    Winston Peters8 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.

    Debbie Ngarewa-Packer & Rawiri Waititi6 seats in 2023

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

An automated audit checks that agreeing with everything doesn't push you left or right, that no party is structurally favoured, and that answering exactly like a party returns that party. It runs on every change.

Takes about seven minutes

You can skip anything you're unsure about, and flag the issues that matter most to you so they count for more.

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