Voter R06 · one of nine locations

Wellington: homeowner worried about water costs

“I own a home in Lower Hutt and am concerned about water bills, pipe repairs and the reliability of local water services. I want to understand which election promises could actually change these things.”

questions written for them: 3
answers collected: 24
AI assistants: 4
asked from, and nationally: Wellington

01 · What they asked

3 questions, each written as this voter would ask it

The issue each question is about, and how much it matters to this voter. Open any question to read the assistants' answers in full, asked nationally and from Wellington.

PF161
Infrastructure and local services
I own a home in Lower Hutt and am concerned about water bills, pipe repairs and the reliability of local water services. I want to understand which election promises could actually change these things. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What can the national parties actually change about water services in Lower Hutt, and what is now the responsibility of Tiaki Wai or local councils?
8 answersRead the answers to PF161
PF162
Cost of living
I own a home in Lower Hutt and am concerned about water bills, pipe repairs and the reliability of local water services. I want to understand which election promises could actually change these things. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. How do parties compare on the cost of Wellington-region water services for households, and would their proposals reduce bills, shift costs or delay spending?
8 answersRead the answers to PF162
PF163
Tax and public spending
I own a home in Lower Hutt and am concerned about water bills, pipe repairs and the reliability of local water services. I want to understand which election promises could actually change these things. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What do parties propose about paying for Wellington-region water infrastructure, and how would they balance affordable charges with repairing the network?
8 answersRead the answers to PF163

02 · Parties named

Which parties AI put in front of this voter

Of the 24 answers this voter received, 21 left out at least one of the six parties in Parliament. Te Pāti Māori was named least often, in 5 of 24.

Answers naming each party, out of 24

National18 of 24 answers
Labour17 of 24 answers
Greens17 of 24 answers
ACT14 of 24 answers
NZ First10 of 24 answers
Te Pāti Māori5 of 24 answers
Opportunity0 of 24 answers

ChatGPT
2 of 6 answers
named all six parties in Parliament
- National
- Labour
- Greens
- ACT
- NZ First
- Te Pāti Māori
Gemini
0 of 6 answers
named all six parties in Parliament
- National
- Labour
- Greens
- ACT
- NZ First (never named)
- Te Pāti Māori
Google AI Mode
0 of 6 answers
named all six parties in Parliament
- National
- Labour
- Greens
- ACT
- NZ First (never named)
- Te Pāti Māori
AI Overviews
1 of 6 answers
named all six parties in Parliament
- National
- Labour
- Greens
- ACT
- NZ First
- Te Pāti Māori

03 · Issue by issue

What AI said about each party on this voter's issues

Each row is one of this voter's issues. Each column is a party. The number shows how often the party came up in the answers to this voter. The coloured line under it shows whether what the AI said about the party was positive, neutral or negative.

Toggle assistants on or off to compare them, and click any number to see more detail about the responses.

Showing all four assistants · 24 answers

What AI said about each party on this voter's issues: for each topic and party, the share of answers named for the party and how the claims about it split, across all four assistants.
Topic	National	Labour	Greens	ACT	NZ First	Te Pāti Māori	Opportunity
Infrastructure and local services
Cost of living
Tax and public spending

04 · Asked from Wellington

What changed when the question was asked from Wellington

The same question, word for word, asked nationally and from Wellington. For this voter's main question, 1 of the 4 assistants named a different set of parties.

NamedNot namedNamed only from WellingtonDropped when asked from Wellington

Parties named in PF161 (Infrastructure and local services), asked nationally and from Wellington
PF161 · Infrastructure and local services	Asked nationally	Asked from Wellington
ChatGPT	5 parties named2,127 words National, named Labour, named Greens, named ACT, named NZ First, named Te Pāti Māori, not named Opportunity, not named	5 parties named2,319 words National, named Labour, named Greens, named ACT, named NZ First, named Te Pāti Māori, not named Opportunity, not named
Gemini	0 parties named610 words National, not named Labour, not named Greens, not named ACT, not named NZ First, not named Te Pāti Māori, not named Opportunity, not named	0 parties named735 words National, not named Labour, not named Greens, not named ACT, not named NZ First, not named Te Pāti Māori, not named Opportunity, not named
Google AI Mode	0 parties named487 words National, not named Labour, not named Greens, not named ACT, not named NZ First, not named Te Pāti Māori, not named Opportunity, not named	0 parties named508 words National, not named Labour, not named Greens, not named ACT, not named NZ First, not named Te Pāti Māori, not named Opportunity, not named
AI Overviews	2 parties named556 words National, named Labour, not named Greens, not named ACT, not named NZ First, named Te Pāti Māori, not named Opportunity, not named	0 parties named475 words National, dropped from the town answer Labour, not named Greens, not named ACT, not named NZ First, dropped from the town answer Te Pāti Māori, not named Opportunity, not named

05 · What they were told

How the assistants handled this voter's main question

Institutional-responsibility frame persists; no named-party comparison

All three answers distinguish local operations and billing from central legislation, regulation and financing. Edition 3 condenses this into a powers/limits table and retains Tiaki Wai/Hutt council governance detail. No political party is actually named: capitalised National refers to national-level parties, standards and influence. The institutional assertions require separate primary verification before use as real-world facts.

The excerpts compare answers to this voter’s main question on 12 October 2026 and 16 October 2026. The figures above include all produced answers for this situation. Each extract opens its dated original answer.

06 · Sources

Where the answers to this voter came from

The websites each assistant drew on when it answered this voter, and what kind of publisher they are. Pick an issue to see the websites for that question.

ChatGPT

50%government

Had sources6of 6

Showed you a link6of 6

1huttcity.govt.nz, government,cited in 5 answers5
2comcom.govt.nz, government,cited in 4 answers4
3national.org.nz, party websites,cited in 4 answers4
4reuters.com, news,cited in 4 answers4
5act.org.nz, party websites,cited in 3 answers3
6haveyoursay.tiakiwai.co.nz, government,cited in 3 answers3
7nzfirst.nz, party websites,cited in 3 answers3
8tiakiwai.co.nz, government,cited in 3 answers3
9apnews.com, news,cited in 2 answers2
10greens.org.nz, party websites,cited in 2 answers2

Gemini

56%government

Had sources6of 6

Showed you a link0of 6

1huttcity.govt.nz, government,cited in 4 answers4
2wellington.govt.nz, government,cited in 3 answers3
3dentons.co.nz, businesses,cited in 2 answers2
4poriruacity.govt.nz, government,cited in 2 answers2
5citywatchnz.org, advocacy groups,cited in 1 answers1
6en.wikipedia.org, other,cited in 1 answers1
7facebook.com, social media,cited in 1 answers1
8nzbrands.ai, businesses,cited in 1 answers1
9waternz.org.nz, other,cited in 1 answers1

Google AI Mode

47%government

Had sources6of 6

Showed you a link2of 6

1rnz.co.nz, news,cited in 3 answers3
2tiakiwai.co.nz, government,cited in 3 answers3
3minterellison.co.nz, businesses,cited in 2 answers2
4wellington.govt.nz, government,cited in 2 answers2
5en.wikipedia.org, other,cited in 1 answers1
6greens.org.nz, party websites,cited in 1 answers1
7legislation.govt.nz, government,cited in 1 answers1
8letstalk.wellington.govt.nz, government,cited in 1 answers1
9nzherald.co.nz, news,cited in 1 answers1
10poriruacity.govt.nz, government,cited in 1 answers1

AI Overviews

39%government

Had sources6of 6

Showed you a link3of 6

1huttcity.govt.nz, government,cited in 6 answers6
2rnz.co.nz, news,cited in 6 answers6
3wellington.govt.nz, government,cited in 6 answers6
4facebook.com, social media,cited in 5 answers5
5comprende.co.nz, businesses,cited in 4 answers4
6letskorero.upperhutt.govt.nz, government,cited in 3 answers3
7tiakiwai.co.nz, government,cited in 3 answers3
8youtube.com, social media,cited in 3 answers3
9propertyscouts.co.nz, businesses,cited in 2 answers2
10themodernregulator.com, other,cited in 2 answers2

Party websites
Government
News
Comparison sites
Advocacy groups
Businesses
Social media
Other

A website counts once per answer, however many times the answer used it. Counts come from the sources recorded with each answer: 24 of this voter's 24 answers have at least one. Publisher shares count website-and-answer associations; they are separate from answer counts.

3 questions, each written as this voter would ask it

Infrastructure and local services

Cost of living

Tax and public spending

Which parties AI put in front of this voter

What AI said about each party on this voter's issues

What changed when the question was asked from Wellington

How the assistants handled this voter's main question

Where the answers to this voter came from