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Voter R02 · one of nine places

Northland: small business moving goods along SH1

“I run a small business near Whangārei and move goods to Auckland using State Highway 1. Disruptions to that route affect deliveries and cash flow.”

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

  • PF148

    Infrastructure and local services

    I run a small business near Whangārei and move goods to Auckland using State Highway 1. Disruptions to that route affect deliveries and cash flow. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What would the parties do to make the road connection between Whangārei and Auckland more reliable, and how do their plans differ?

    8 answers

  • PF149

    Infrastructure and local services

    I run a small business near Whangārei and move goods to Auckland using State Highway 1. Disruptions to that route affect deliveries and cash flow. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What is actually approved and funded for the Northland Corridor and the alternative to the Brynderwyn Hills, compared with what is still planned or promised for the future?

    8 answers

  • PF150

    Economy

    I run a small business near Whangārei and move goods to Auckland using State Highway 1. Disruptions to that route affect deliveries and cash flow. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. How do parties compare on funding these Northland roads, including tolls or other charges, and what might that mean for a small business moving goods?

    8 answers
02 · Parties named

Which parties AI put in front of this voter

Of the 24 answers this voter received, 24 left out at least one of the six parties in Parliament. Te Pāti Māori was named least often, in 0 of 24.

Answers naming each party, out of 24

  • National18 of 24 answers
  • Labour18 of 24 answers
  • Greens10 of 24 answers
  • ACT20 of 24 answers
  • NZ First15 of 24 answers
  • Te Pāti Māori0 of 24 answers
  • Opportunity1 of 24 answers

  • ChatGPT

    0 of 6 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

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

  • Gemini

    0 of 6 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

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

  • Google AI Mode

    0 of 6 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

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

  • AI Overviews

    0 of 6 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.

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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 naming the party and how the claims about it split, across all four assistants.
TopicNationalLabourGreensACTNZ FirstTe Pāti MāoriOpportunity
Infrastructure and local services
Economy
04 · Asked from Whangārei

What changed when the question was asked from Whangārei

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

NamedNot namedNamed only from WhangāreiDropped when asked from Whangārei

Parties named in PF148 (Infrastructure and local services), asked nationally and from Whangārei
PF148 · Infrastructure and local servicesAsked nationallyAsked from Whangārei
ChatGPT

5 parties named1,768 words

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

5 parties named317 words

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

4 parties named610 words

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

3 parties named731 words

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

5 parties named557 words

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

5 parties named699 words

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

3 parties named649 words

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

5 parties named541 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
05 · What they were told

How the assistants handled this voter's main question

The Whangārei business needs a reliable freight route, not simply a road announcement. PF148 ChatGPT distinguishes highway construction, maintenance, resilience and rail alternatives, then identifies separate corridor stages. That decomposition makes it possible to ask which measure would help during an interruption and when.

Gemini closes with a choice between a continuous motorway and alternative networks. AI Overviews similarly emphasises road expansion versus rail-and-repair. AI Mode's opening brings in Mill Road while discussing a Northland connection, illustrating a candidate relevance problem: a named infrastructure project can sound specific while not answering the route question directly.

The business's goods, fleet arrangements and delivery timetable are unspecified. Road, rail and coastal shipping are not interchangeable for every operator. The usefulness of a transport comparison therefore depends on project location, implementation status and how the alternative would actually serve this business, rather than a general label such as pro-infrastructure.

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

61%party websites

Had sources6of 6

Showed you a link6of 6

  1. 1nzta.govt.nz, government, cited in 5 answers
  2. 2act.org.nz, party websites, cited in 4 answers
  3. 3greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 4 answers
  4. 4labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 4 answers
  5. 5national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 4 answers
  6. 6nzfirst.nz, party websites, cited in 4 answers
  7. 7beehive.govt.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
  8. 8fasttrack.govt.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
  9. 9ansr.transport.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
  10. 10elections.nz, government, cited in 1 answers

Gemini

29%government

Had sources6of 6

Showed you a link0of 6

  1. 1kiwicoaches.co.nz, businesses, cited in 4 answers
  2. 2nzta.govt.nz, government, cited in 3 answers
  3. 3greaterauckland.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 2 answers
  4. 4infrastructurepipeline.org, advocacy groups, cited in 2 answers
  5. 5facebook.com, social media, cited in 1 answers
  6. 6fasttrack.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
  7. 7grantshand.co.nz, other, cited in 1 answers

Google AI Mode

40%government

Had sources6of 6

Showed you a link1of 6

  1. 1kiwicoaches.co.nz, businesses, cited in 3 answers
  2. 2nzta.govt.nz, government, cited in 3 answers
  3. 3facebook.com, social media, cited in 2 answers
  4. 4kaipara.govt.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
  5. 5nzherald.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
  6. 6beehive.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
  7. 7elections.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
  8. 8fasttrack.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
  9. 9myelectorate.co.nz, comparison sites, cited in 1 answers
  10. 10newsroom.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers

AI Overviews

24%government

Had sources6of 6

Showed you a link0of 6

  1. 1nzta.govt.nz, government, cited in 6 answers
  2. 2facebook.com, social media, cited in 4 answers
  3. 3kiwicoaches.co.nz, businesses, cited in 4 answers
  4. 41news.co.nz, news, cited in 3 answers
  5. 5youtube.com, social media, cited in 3 answers
  6. 6kaipara.govt.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
  7. 7northpower.nz, other, cited in 2 answers
  8. 8nzherald.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
  9. 9rnz.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
  10. 10transporting.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: 24 of this voter's 24 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.