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Evidence · NZ Election 2026 · Edition 5

Every question and original answer

All 174 questions and the 786 complete answers recorded on 23 October 2026. Source lists and sentiment assessments are included, alongside the unchanged original answers.

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Every question, with its answers

Each question was written as a voter would ask it and went to all four assistants. Some were also asked from a town. Open a question to read every answer to it in full.

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The tables behind the study

Every figure on the study page comes from these tables. They are CSV files, which open in any spreadsheet.

  • Questions

    questions.csv

    One row per question, with its original wording.

    id, text, reference, enabled, axes, collectionSettings

    174rows

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  • Complete answers

    answers.csv

    One row per saved answer, including its original text.

    id, questionId, assistant, collectionSetting, askedFrom, text, words

    786rows

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  • Answers included in each comparison

    memberships.csv

    One row per answer and comparison, showing which results were counted together.

    comparisonId, answerId, rowKey, included

    2,193rows

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  • Party names found in answers

    codings.csv

    One row per answer, party and comparison, with the recorded decision and evidence.

    comparisonId, answerId, entityId, kind, measure, counted, quote, reason, evidence

    37,281rows

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  • Sources recorded with each answer

    sources.csv

    One row per answer, with its recorded websites, source-list status and visible links.

    answerId, capture, domains, urls, literalUrls, origin

    786rows

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  • What the voting-guidance answers did

    behaviour-coding.csv

    One row per guidance answer, with the recorded behaviours and supporting passages.

    answerId, draft_id, platform, explicit_choice_boundary, conditional_party_or_bloc_alignment, prioritised_shortlist, elicits_additional_user_information, unconditional_single_party_vote_instruction, rationale, evidence, review_provenance

    31rows

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  • Checks against official sources

    checks.csv

    One row per selected statement checked in an answer.

    checkId, claimToTest, category, answerId, questionId, assistant, assertionPresent, assertion, verdict, evidence, whatTheSourceSays, assessment, checkedOn, paragraphs

    9rows

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  • Statements selected for checking

    check-register.csv

    One row per selected check, with its reason and official source.

    checkId, claimToTest, category, whyChecked, primarySourceUrl, answerId

    9rows

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  • Research findings

    findings.csv

    One row per finding, with its figure and supporting records.

    id, statement, summary, caveat, value, denominator, evidence

    10rows

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  • Evidence behind the findings

    findings-evidence.csv

    One row per finding, with the records supporting it.

    findingId, rows

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  • What changed for each voter

    case-decisions.csv

    One row per voter situation, with the earlier and later readings.

    case, transition, quote, assessment, draft_id, scenario, earlier_result_id, result_id, earlier_quote, earlier_assessment, earlier_review_provenance, current_review_provenance

    32rows

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  • Answers read in detail

    report-evidence.csv

    One row per answer included in the detailed research readings.

    key, answerId, interpretation, text

    63rows

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  • Party counts by edition

    party-count-tables.csv

    One row per comparison, edition, assistant and party, with its answer count and total.

    panel, edition, platform, party, numerator, denominator

    510rows

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  • Answer length by assistant

    platform-tables.csv

    One row per comparison, edition and assistant, with the recorded answer lengths.

    panel, edition, platform, answers, median_words, total_words

    60rows

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  • Location comparisons by edition

    regional-tables.csv

    One row per national-and-location comparison and edition.

    edition, prompt_id, platform, city, draft_id, block, scenario_id, scenario, issue, priority, common_4_5, complete, national_result_id, city_result_id, same_text, same_party_set, same_displayed_party_set

    248rows

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  • Changes by topic

    issue-tables.csv

    One row per topic, showing answer totals and changes in party names.

    issue, current_answers, matched, changed_party_sets, changed_displayed_party_sets

    20rows

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  • Links visible in answers

    literal-source-evidence.csv

    One row per answer, with the web links present in its text.

    edition, result_id, literal_urls, literal_domains, associated_capture

    786rows

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  • Separate website reference totals

    aggregate-references.csv

    One row per website in the separate reference summary; these totals do not identify which answer used it.

    domain, citationCount, referenceCount, promptCount, urlTotal, trendTotal, platforms

    752rows

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  • Answers compared with 19 October

    pairs.csv

    One row per answer with an earlier counterpart to the same question, assistant and location.

    earlierAnswerId, answerId, questionId, assistant, collectionSetting, askedFrom

    771rows

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  • Statements and sentiment assessments

    claims.csv

    The saved assessments of statements about tracked parties, with their answer references and verified extracts where available.

    claimId, answerId, entityId, role, tone, quote, origin, nativeQuoteVerified

    20,816rows

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  • Original saved statement assessments

    raw-native-claims.csv

    One row per saved statement, with its original wording and party assessments. These are automated results, not independently checked facts.

    quote, brands, stance, claimId, claimText, sourceResultId

    26,967rows

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  • Original saved source records

    raw-native-sources.csv

    Every saved source record, distinguishing citations from other references. The source rankings count citations only.

    answerId, url, domain, metadata, domainType, citationKind

    8,755rows

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  • Sources by answer

    source-associations.csv

    One row per answer and website; repeated references to the same website count once.

    answer id, question id, assistant, domain, publisher

    4,682rows

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  • National and location answers

    place-pairs.csv

    One row per complete national-and-location pair in this edition.

    question id, assistant, place, national answer id, place answer id, national entities, place entities, same entities

    121rows

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Use these tables to trace findings back to the original questions and answers. The full text of each answer is also on this page, under its question.

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Read in full and checked

Some answers were read in detail or checked against official sources. Those appear on the study page, beside the findings they support.

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I'm a Pacific voter in a multigenerational household with children and older relatives. Our main concerns are household costs, enough space and access to healthcare. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. Which party policies could help a multigenerational household with food, power and other living costs?

For a multigenerational Pacific household in New Zealand, the key question is not just which party promises to reduce the cost of living, but which policies could leave your household with more money for groceries, power, rent or a mortgage, and healthcare for both children and older relatives.

For the 2026 general election, there are several policy differences worth examining. Labour has published a cost-of-living package covering healthcare, power and grocery pricing; the Greens have proposed a publicly owned supermarket chain called KiwiMart; and housing and health policies offer other approaches to compare. These are proposals, so their effects depend on implementation, eligibility and funding. Labour's Cost of Living PlanWhat the 2026 election promises could mean for Pacific householdsPolicies for Party vote - NZ Election 2026Policies for Party vote - NZ Election 2026

1. Compare the policies that could affect your household

Based on published 2026 election policies available as of 22 October 2026. This is a policy comparison, not a voting recommendation.

Green Party NZ (@NZGreens) on X

Green Party — food affordability and power

The Greens propose creating KiwiMart, a publicly owned supermarket chain, banning excessive supermarket pricing, increasing food-security funding and expanding school lunches to another 150,000 children. Their energy policy proposes a publicly owned electricity generator called Kiwipower and zero-interest loans for solar panels and batteries. Greens launch plan to break up the supermarket duopoly and bring down the price of foodGreen Party launches plan to cut power bills and take power back from the big energy companies

Potential household relevance: grocery costs, children's lunches and electricity costs. KiwiMart would take time and substantial public investment to establish, and lower prices are an intended outcome, not a guaranteed saving.

South Island Election Conference 2026

Labour — healthcare and everyday bills

Labour proposes three free GP visits per person each year through a new Medicard, removing the $5 prescription charge from July 2027, low-interest SolarSaver loans, and making price gouging on groceries, fuel and power illegal. It also proposes public transport fare caps. Labour's Cost of Living Plan

Potential household relevance: a larger household with several children and older relatives could benefit from reduced GP fees and prescription costs, subject to the proposed eligibility and start dates. SolarSaver is most relevant if your household can install solar.

Will National Party Finish 2nd in New Zealand's 2026 Election?

National — power supply and grocery competition

National proposes separating New World and PAK'nSAVE to increase competition between them. Its nine-point energy plan includes increasing electricity supply, reviewing lines charges, making it easier to sell surplus solar power and offering low-interest, long-term loans through a Home Energy Fund. National also commits to no new taxes. 2026 Election PolicyAffordable power Kiwis can rely on

Potential household relevance: lower power costs over time through increased supply and competition, plus possible savings for homeowners who invest in solar or batteries. The grocery proposal aims to increase competition rather than establish a public supermarket.

These are different approaches to the same problems: direct reductions in some household expenses, public provision, stronger price regulation, or greater competition and supply. You can compare the parties' wider policies through Policy.nz at Policy.nz's 2026 election guide. Policies for Party vote - NZ Election 2026Policies for Party vote - NZ Election 2026Policies for Party vote - NZ Election 2026

2. What matters most for a multigenerational household?

Your household priority Policies worth checking The practical question
Food for everyone KiwiMart, supermarket competition, food grants and school lunches Does the policy reduce your weekly grocery bill or provide food directly?
Electricity and heating Solar loans, home energy loans, power-market reform Can you access the support if you rent, or does it require home ownership?
Enough space Social housing, rental protections, affordable home ownership Will it increase the supply of suitable homes or reduce your housing costs?
Children's needs School lunches, healthcare and family support Which children qualify, and when does the support begin?
Older relatives GP costs, prescriptions, superannuation eligibility and housing Will it help with regular medical costs and retirement income?

For housing, compare the parties' proposals on social housing, rent increases, first-home deposits and rental quality using Policy.nz's housing policies. Policies for Party vote - NZ Election 2026

One issue particularly worth checking for older relatives: New Zealand First's proposal to restrict superannuation to New Zealand citizens from 2029 could affect some long-term residents who are not citizens. If that describes anyone in your household, check their eligibility carefully before weighing this policy. What the 2026 election promises could mean for Pacific households

3. How to work out which promises would actually help

For your family, I would assess each policy against three practical measures rather than relying on the size of a party's headline announcement:

  • Money saved now: weekly food, electricity, housing, transport and medical expenses.
  • Who qualifies: household income, citizenship or residency status, age, whether you rent or own, and the number of eligible children or adults.
  • When it starts: distinguish immediate assistance from a policy that requires legislation, investment or years to deliver.

Also check the difference between a party's estimate of savings and an independently verified saving. For example, Labour's published estimates include up to $250 per person per year for three free GP visits and around $1,000 a year from SolarSaver, but those are party estimates and not guaranteed amounts for every household. Labour's Cost of Living Plan

4. A useful next step

To narrow this down to the policies that would affect your household most, one question: does your multigenerational household rent, own your home with a mortgage, or own it outright?

That makes a significant difference to which housing, power-bill and solar-support policies are accessible. I can then compare the relevant 2026 party proposals in more detail, including what could help children and older relatives.

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I'm a Pacific voter in a multigenerational household with children and older relatives. Our main concerns are household costs, enough space and access to healthcare. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. Which party policies could help a multigenerational household with food, power and other living costs?

Navigating the 2026 general election as part of a multigenerational Pacific household means looking at how policies balance household budgets, housing space, and family health. Different political parties offer distinct approaches to lowering food, power, and everyday living costs, alongside support for older relatives and children.

Here is how the major parties' policies align with your core concerns:

1. Food and Grocery Costs

  • New Zealand First: Focuses heavily on market competition to bring down food prices, specifically targeting the major supermarket duopoly and proposing measures to increase competition in the grocery sector. They have also previously floated the removal of GST from basic food items.
  • Te Pāti Māori: Proposes a tax-free threshold of $30,000, removing GST from all food, and introducing a targeted "kai credit" for eligible individuals and families earning under $60,000.
  • The Greens: Proposes stronger regulatory measures and competition laws targeting large supermarket chains, alongside broader wealth-redistribution policies to support low-income households.
  • National and ACT: Generally favor broad economic management, boosting productivity, and cutting government spending or taxes rather than direct market interventions or price controls, arguing that economic growth and business competition are the best paths to lower prices.

2. Power and Energy Costs

  • The Greens & Te Pāti Māori: Both emphasize public and community-led renewable energy initiatives. Te Pāti Māori has proposed an Energy Sovereignty Fund to help lower energy burdens, while the Greens support energy-efficient home upgrades (such as insulation and heating grants) to permanently lower power bills.
  • New Zealand First: Focuses on increasing domestic energy supply security and reviewing the electricity market and generation structures to tackle high power prices for households and regional areas.
  • Labour: Emphasizes market settings and regulatory oversight to ensure fair pricing in the electricity sector.

3. General Living Costs, Working Families, and Support for Dependents

  • New Zealand First: Pledges significant financial boosts for families, including a major increase to Working for Families payments (proposing an additional $120 a week through permanent and expanded in-work tax credits) and inflation-proofed minimum wage increases.
  • Labour: Focuses on strengthening public services and social protection, proposing expanded free primary healthcare (such as free GP visits via a "Medicard" and free prescriptions) which directly reduces out-of-pocket medical costs for children and older relatives living under the same roof.
  • National: Emphasizes fiscal discipline, keeping a tight rein on government spending, and maintaining a commitment to no new taxes, aiming to ease living pressures through broader economic management.
  • ACT: Advocates for lowering income tax rates, reducing government regulations, and downsizing public spending to let families keep more of what they earn.

Key Questions to Weigh for Your Household:

  • Do you prefer targeted financial relief and cash-transfer policies (like increased Working for Families credits or tax-free thresholds) to inject immediate cash into your household?
  • Are you looking for structural market reforms (like breaking up supermarket and power companies) to permanently lower grocery and utility bills at the checkout?
  • Would your household benefit more from free or heavily subsidized public services (like doctor visits and prescriptions for children and older family members) to offset daily living expenses?

To help narrow this down, are you more interested in direct financial support (like tax credits or benefit adjustments) or structural changes (like lowering power and food prices through market regulation)?

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I'm a Pacific voter in a multigenerational household with children and older relatives. Our main concerns are household costs, enough space and access to healthcare. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. Which party policies could help a multigenerational household with food, power and other living costs?

Navigating a multigenerational household—where you are balancing the needs of tamariki (children), working-age adults, and older relatives—means looking at policies that address daily expenses holistically. With the 2026 New Zealand General Election underway, political parties have put forward distinct approaches to easing household budgets, housing space, and healthcare access.

To compare how different political approaches align with your household’s needs regarding food, power, space, and healthcare, you can explore non-partisan comparison tools like Policy.nz or check out summaries on platforms like The Conversation's Election Policy Tracker. Broadly, the policy directions break down across the political spectrum:

1. Food and Supermarket Costs

  • Left/Green/Progressive Approaches: Focus heavily on direct market intervention and social support. Proposals include establishing a publicly owned or state-backed supermarket competitor (such as forcing divestment of existing duopoly stores to create a lower-cost cooperative chain), removing GST off basic food items, expanding school lunch programs (like Ka Ora, Ka Ako) to save on household grocery bills, and increasing hardship/food grants through Work and Income.
  • Centre/National Approaches: Generally favour regulatory pressure over state ownership. This includes strengthening the powers of the Grocery Commissioner and Commerce Commission to crack down on anti-competitive behaviour, encouraging new international or local retail entrants, and easing compliance costs on the agricultural and supply chain sectors to naturally drive down food production costs.
  • Right/Conservative/Act Approaches: Tend to focus on broad economic settings—reducing overall business regulation, cutting red tape, and lowering income or corporate taxes to increase disposable household income so families have more purchasing power at the checkout, rather than targeting specific retail prices.

2. Power and Energy Bills

  • Left/Green Approaches: Propose market reforms in the electricity sector, greater public investment in renewable generation, or direct energy rebates/winter energy payment expansions for lower- and middle-income families, alongside changes to the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to directly return dividends or lower local power costs for households.
  • Centre/Right Approaches: Focus on increasing energy supply through resource consent reform, encouraging more domestic generation investment (including oil, gas, or expanded renewables depending on the specific party), and reducing regulatory bottlenecks to lower wholesale electricity prices for retailers and consumers.

3. Space and Multigeneration Housing

  • Left/Green Approaches: Emphasise massive boosts to state and public housing builds, tighter regulations and rental controls for tenants, and progressive taxation (such as land value taxes or capital gains taxes) to cool speculative property investment and make homeownership or larger rentals more attainable.
  • Centre/Right Approaches: Focus heavily on urban zoning reform (enabling more intensive and extensive building), infrastructure funding partnerships with local councils to unlock land for development, and enabling first-home buyers or specific workers to utilise KiwiSaver flexibilities to secure larger properties suitable for extended families. [Policy.nz]

4. Access to Healthcare

  • Left/Green Approaches: Advocate for increased direct funding for public health infrastructure, lifting workforce pay (particularly for nurses, doctors, and aged-care workers) to retain staff, and expanding free or low-cost access to primary care, prescriptions, and mental health services.
  • Centre/Right Approaches: Prioritise reducing elective surgery waitlists through partnerships with the private health sector, administrative streamlining of Health New Zealand (Te Whatu Ora), and incentivising training pathways or international recruitment to address GP shortages, while sometimes targeting specific pharmac funding boosts.

Next Steps for Your Vote

Because a multigenerational household feels the compounding pressure of both youth and elder care, look closely at how parties balance targeted cost-of-living payments/services (benefiting kids and older relatives directly) versus broad economic/tax relief (benefiting the working adults paying the bills).

To dive deeper into the exact manifesto pledges of every registered party contesting the ballot, you can review the comprehensive breakdown on Policy.nz and ensure you are enrolled before the deadlines at Vote.nz. 2026 General Election key dates - Vote NZ

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I'm a Pacific voter in a multigenerational household with children and older relatives. Our main concerns are household costs, enough space and access to healthcare. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. Which party policies could help a multigenerational household with food, power and other living costs?

AI Overview

Ahead of the 7 November 2026 New Zealand General Election , political parties have released vastly different strategies to target the primary voter concern: the cost of living. For a large, multigenerational household caring for both children and older relatives, these policies broadly split into two distinct paths: reducing everyday costs through targeted public services and market intervention , or lowering household pressure via tax cuts and reduced government spending.

The policy landscape directly addressing food, power, and other daily living expenses shows distinct approaches:

1. Food and Groceries

  • The Green Party: Under their "Affordable Kai" policy , they plan to break up the current supermarket duopoly by forcing Woolworths and Foodstuffs to sell 120 stores and two distribution centres. These would become "KiwiMart" , a publicly owned, state-run supermarket chain mandated to prioritize affordable food. They also plan to expand the Ka Ora, Ka Ako healthy school lunches programme to 400 additional schools.

  • Labour Party: Focuses on regulatory measures to enforce fairer grocery prices and ban price gouging by breaking up the major supermarket duopoly.

  • Te Pāti Māori & NZ First: Both parties propose lowering grocery bills at the checkout by completely removing GST from basic food items.

2. Power and Energy Costs

  • Labour Party: Has introduced a "SolarSaver" scheme , which offers government-backed, long-term loans for home solar installations and battery setups to structurally bring down household power bills.

  • The Green Party: Also supports government-backed long-term loans for home batteries and solar systems alongside separating power "gentailers" (companies that both generate and retail electricity) to drive down commercial power pricing.

3. Tax, Income, and Daily Living Expenses

  • National Party: Focuses on responsible fiscal management. They pledge a strict "no new taxes" platform for the upcoming term, aiming to curb inflation by reducing government operating costs and downsizing the public service.

  • ACT: Frames the living crisis as a productivity issue. They advocate for a simplified two-rate income tax system with a top rate of 28% alongside freezing the minimum wage for three years to assist businesses.

  • Labour Party: Proposes capping public transport fares at $20 weekly in main centers ($10 elsewhere) to assist with commuting costs. They plan to fund their expanded services through a new 28% capital gains tax on investment properties (which strictly excludes the family home).

  • Te Pāti Māori: Proposes introducing a $30,000 tax-free income threshold to keep more money in the pockets of low-to-middle income earners, funded by a new wealth tax.

  • The Opportunity Party (TOP): Proposes a "Teal Deal" providing expanded services for under-30s alongside broad income tax cuts funded via a land value tax.

Directly Comparing Party Approaches

The major political players offer distinct tradeoffs depending on how your multigenerational home prefers to see financial relief:

Party Core Strategy for Costs Key Food & Power Policies Impact on a Large Household
National Fiscal Restraint : Stop new taxes to ease general inflation; reduce local council rates caps. Opposes direct state-run grocery intervention. Relies on broader economic stability and lower overall inflation to lower costs.
Labour Targeted Relief : Funded by a 28% Capital Gains Tax on investment properties. SolarSaver home loans; anti-price-gouging supermarket rules; $20 transport cap. Lowers regular out-of-pocket bills for power and transit, keeping family home exempt from property tax changes.
Green Party Market Restructuring : Heavily funded by wealth and asset taxes. "KiwiMart" public supermarkets; free public transport; solar loans. Directly targets the checkout bill and lowers utility/transit costs via state intervention.
ACT Tax Cuts : Income tax cuts and broad deregulation. Opposes grocery market intervention and emissions trading scheme floors. Maximizes take-home pay for working household members, but reduces public service spending.
Te Pāti Māori Tax Shifting : Higher tax on wealth to fund relief for workers. No GST on food. Substantially lowers weekly grocery spending and leaves the first $30,000 of income untaxed.
NZ First Infrastructure Focus : Large infrastructure fund mixed with targeted cuts. No GST on basic foods. Lower grocery checkouts; strongly defends keeping NZ Super unchanged for older relatives.

Next Steps for Your Family

Because policy announcements are updated leading up to the election, you can track real-time changes and compare regional electorate candidates via tools like Policy.nz or review targeted policy updates through Vote NZ. Be sure your family members check their enrolment status by the 25 October 2026 deadline to vote on Election Day.

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