Annual donations to political parties published today show larger amounts than in the past, with new rules requiring smaller donations to be reported.
  • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nzEnglish
    7·
    4 days ago

    National took a huge amount of the total donations of $10,489,965.49; if you exclude NZF they got more than everyone else combined!

    Party $ Donated % of Total Donations % of Vote $ per Vote% $/seat
    National $4,889,538.20 46.57% 38.06 $128,469/% $101,865/seat
    Labour $1,627,713.92 15.5% 26.91% $60,487/% $48,874/seat
    Greens $1,588,680.02 15.13% 11.6% $136,955/% $105,912/seat
    ACT $1,463,445.22 13.94% 8.64 $169,380/% $133,040/seat
    New Zealand First $758,773.91 7.23% 6.08% $124,789/% $94,847/seat
    The Opportunities Party $82,648.09 0.79% 2.22% $38,228/% –
    Te Pāti Māori $53,846.42 0.51% 3.08% $17,482/% $8,974/seat
    Animal Justice Party $9,874.36 0.09% 0.17% $58,084/% –
    NZ Outdoors and Freedom $2,370.00 0.02% ?? ?? –
    Women’s Rights Party $12,107.00 0.12% 0.08% $151,337/% –
    Vision NZ $9,776.35 0.09% ?? ?? –
    Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party $192 ~0.0% 0.45% $426/% –

    But as @[email protected] and @[email protected] point out, this does not include the non-official funding from others.

    Edits: added, results and comparisons to how much they got donated.
    ?? are because Vision NZ and The Outdoor and Freedom Party are combined to 0.33% of the vote.
    – no seats in parliament

    • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nzEnglish
      4·
      4 days ago

      Of the “serious” parties, the most efficient in $/% of vote are TPM and TOP, but when talking $/seat TMP is streaks ahead of everyone else.

    • BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nzOP
      2·
      4 days ago

      It’s virtually impossible to keep money out of politics and it’s no surprise that the party of the oligarchs for the oligarchs gets the most money.