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Voter R01 · one of nine places

Auckland: renter commuting from West Auckland

“I rent in Henderson, West Auckland, work in central Auckland and want to buy a home eventually. Rent and the time and cost of commuting are my main concerns.”

questions written for them
4
answers collected
32
AI assistants
4
asked from, and nationally
Auckland
01 · What they asked

4 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 Auckland.

  • PF144

    Infrastructure and local services

    I rent in Henderson, West Auckland, work in central Auckland and want to buy a home eventually. Rent and the time and cost of commuting are my main concerns. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. How do the parties compare on the cost and reliability of buses and trains for someone commuting from Henderson to central Auckland?

    8 answers

  • PF145

    Housing

    I rent in Henderson, West Auckland, work in central Auckland and want to buy a home eventually. Rent and the time and cost of commuting are my main concerns. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. Which parties have plans to make renting or buying near reliable public transport in Auckland more affordable, and what would still depend on Auckland Council?

    8 answers

  • PF146

    Infrastructure and local services

    I rent in Henderson, West Auckland, work in central Auckland and want to buy a home eventually. Rent and the time and cost of commuting are my main concerns. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What is the current status of the City Rail Link, and what are parties promising beyond what is already committed? What would each change for West Auckland commuters?

    8 answers

  • PF147

    Tax and public spending

    I rent in Henderson, West Auckland, work in central Auckland and want to buy a home eventually. Rent and the time and cost of commuting are my main concerns. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. Who would pay for the parties' Auckland transport proposals: taxpayers, ratepayers or passengers, and what are the trade-offs?

    8 answers
02 · Parties named

Which parties AI put in front of this voter

Of the 32 answers this voter received, 31 left out at least one of the six parties in Parliament. Te Pāti Māori was named least often, in 1 of 32.

Answers naming each party, out of 32

  • National31 of 32 answers
  • Labour28 of 32 answers
  • Greens31 of 32 answers
  • ACT23 of 32 answers
  • NZ First15 of 32 answers
  • Te Pāti Māori1 of 32 answers
  • Opportunity1 of 32 answers

  • ChatGPT

    0 of 8 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

    • National
    • Labour
    • Greens
    • ACT
    • NZ First
    • Te Pāti Māori (never named)

  • Gemini

    1 of 8 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

    • National
    • Labour
    • Greens
    • ACT
    • NZ First
    • Te Pāti Māori

  • Google AI Mode

    0 of 8 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

    • National
    • Labour
    • Greens
    • ACT
    • NZ First
    • Te Pāti Māori (never named)

  • AI Overviews

    0 of 8 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

    • National
    • Labour
    • Greens
    • ACT
    • NZ First
    • Te Pāti Māori (never named)
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 · 32 answers

What AI said about each party on this voter's issues: for each topic and party, the share of answers naming the party and how the claims about it split, across all four assistants.
TopicNationalLabourGreensACTNZ FirstTe Pāti MāoriOpportunity
Infrastructure and local services
Housing
Tax and public spending
04 · Asked from Auckland

What changed when the question was asked from Auckland

The same question, word for word, asked nationally and from Auckland. For this voter's main question, 2 of the 4 assistants named a different set of parties.

NamedNot namedNamed only from AucklandDropped when asked from Auckland

Parties named in PF144 (Infrastructure and local services), asked nationally and from Auckland
PF144 · Infrastructure and local servicesAsked nationallyAsked from Auckland
ChatGPT

5 parties named1,106 words

  • National, named
  • Labour, named
  • Greens, named
  • ACT, named
  • NZ First, named
  • Te Pāti Māori, not named
  • Opportunity, not named

5 parties named781 words

  • National, named
  • Labour, named
  • Greens, named
  • ACT, named
  • NZ First, named
  • Te Pāti Māori, not named
  • Opportunity, not named
Gemini

3 parties named490 words

  • National, named
  • Labour, named
  • Greens, named
  • ACT, not named
  • NZ First, not named
  • Te Pāti Māori, not named
  • Opportunity, not named

5 parties named696 words

  • National, named
  • Labour, named
  • Greens, named
  • ACT, named only from the town
  • NZ First, named only from the town
  • Te Pāti Māori, not named
  • Opportunity, not named
Google AI Mode

4 parties named562 words

  • National, named
  • Labour, named
  • Greens, named
  • ACT, named
  • NZ First, not named
  • Te Pāti Māori, not named
  • Opportunity, not named

4 parties named583 words

  • National, named
  • Labour, named
  • Greens, named
  • ACT, named
  • NZ First, not named
  • Te Pāti Māori, not named
  • Opportunity, not named
AI Overviews

5 parties named728 words

  • National, named
  • Labour, named
  • Greens, named
  • ACT, named
  • NZ First, named
  • Te Pāti Māori, not named
  • Opportunity, not named

3 parties named585 words

  • National, named
  • Labour, named
  • Greens, named
  • ACT, dropped from the town answer
  • 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

The Henderson commuter asks about cost and reliability together. PF144 ChatGPT separates a cheaper existing journey from improvements to speed and reliability, then grounds the answer in a specific rail opening and fare calculation. The official CRL opening date is supported in the accuracy register; the fare calculation still requires its own fare-rule and journey check.

Gemini starts its party comparison with Labour's weekly cap, AI Mode with the Greens' fare proposals, and AI Overviews combines cost and housing implications. These are different routes through the same concern. Lower fares, service frequency and network reliability are separate outcomes, and a policy benefiting one is not proof of improvement in all three.

The local inventory contains four identical-text NZ/Auckland comparisons for every platform. The focal excerpts here describe NZ-setting outputs; the regional chapter examines the paired location records. A named suburb in a prompt already supplies strong local context, so a city setting cannot be assumed to be the sole reason an answer knows Henderson.

From the study's case study of this voter. Each extract opens the full answer with the passage highlighted.

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

42%party websites

Had sources8of 8

Showed you a link8of 8

  1. 1national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 7 answers
  2. 2ourauckland.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz, government, cited in 7 answers
  3. 3greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 6 answers
  4. 4labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 6 answers
  5. 5act.org.nz, party websites, cited in 5 answers
  6. 6nzfirst.nz, party websites, cited in 4 answers
  7. 7akhaveyoursay.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz, government, cited in 3 answers
  8. 8at.govt.nz, government, cited in 3 answers
  9. 9greaterauckland.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 3 answers
  10. 10nzta.govt.nz, government, cited in 3 answers

Gemini

24%businesses

Had sources8of 8

Showed you a link0of 8

  1. 1kiwicoaches.co.nz, businesses, cited in 7 answers
  2. 2greaterauckland.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 3 answers
  3. 3waateanews.com, news, cited in 3 answers
  4. 4cityraillink.co.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
  5. 5en.wikipedia.org, other, cited in 2 answers
  6. 6greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  7. 7national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  8. 81news.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers
  9. 9at.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
  10. 10hud.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers

Google AI Mode

56%news

Had sources8of 8

Showed you a link1of 8

  1. 1rnz.co.nz, news, cited in 8 answers
  2. 2nzherald.co.nz, news, cited in 5 answers
  3. 3labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 3 answers
  4. 4at.govt.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
  5. 5cityraillink.co.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
  6. 6policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 2 answers
  7. 7aucklandcouncil.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
  8. 8interest.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers
  9. 9kiwifern.com, other, cited in 1 answers
  10. 10ourauckland.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers

AI Overviews

27%news

Had sources8of 8

Showed you a link3of 8

  1. 1kiwicoaches.co.nz, businesses, cited in 8 answers
  2. 2rnz.co.nz, news, cited in 5 answers
  3. 3at.govt.nz, government, cited in 4 answers
  4. 41news.co.nz, news, cited in 3 answers
  5. 5facebook.com, social media, cited in 3 answers
  6. 6policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 3 answers
  7. 7akhaveyoursay.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
  8. 8aucklandhomeowner.co.nz, other, cited in 2 answers
  9. 9cityraillink.co.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
  10. 10greaterauckland.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 2 answers
  • 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 the scan attached to each answer: 32 of this voter's 32 answers have at least one. We assigned a publisher type by hand to every website in a top-ten list; any other website counts as Other.