Voter R04 · one of nine places

Hawke’s Bay: homeowner concerned about flooding

“We own a home on the Heretaunga Plains in Hawke's Bay and have school-age children. Flood risk, insurance and the cost of protecting our home are major concerns for us.”

questions written for them: 4
answers collected: 32
AI assistants: 4
asked from, and nationally: Hastings

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 Hastings.

PF154
Climate and disaster resilience
We own a home on the Heretaunga Plains in Hawke's Bay and have school-age children. Flood risk, insurance and the cost of protecting our home are major concerns for us. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. How do parties compare on long-term flood protection and recovery support for Hawke's Bay, and what would their plans mean for households on the Heretaunga Plains?
8 answers
PF155
Infrastructure and local services
We own a home on the Heretaunga Plains in Hawke's Bay and have school-age children. Flood risk, insurance and the cost of protecting our home are major concerns for us. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. Which Hawke's Bay flood-protection works are already funded or underway, and which are still future options or election promises? Who is responsible for delivering each?
8 answers
PF156
Housing
We own a home on the Heretaunga Plains in Hawke's Bay and have school-age children. Flood risk, insurance and the cost of protecting our home are major concerns for us. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What do parties propose for homeowners in flood-prone places who face insurance problems or may need to relocate, and do any proposals specifically address Hawke's Bay?
8 answers
PF157
Tax and public spending
We own a home on the Heretaunga Plains in Hawke's Bay and have school-age children. Flood risk, insurance and the cost of protecting our home are major concerns for us. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. How would parties share the cost of flood protection between central government, councils and affected homeowners, and what are the trade-offs for our family?
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 3 of 32.

Answers naming each party, out of 32

National22 of 32 answers
Labour20 of 32 answers
Greens15 of 32 answers
ACT17 of 32 answers
NZ First12 of 32 answers
Te Pāti Māori3 of 32 answers
Opportunity12 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
0 of 8 answers
named all six parties in Parliament
- National
- Labour
- Greens
- ACT
- NZ First
- Te Pāti Māori
Google AI Mode
1 of 8 answers
named all six parties in Parliament
- National
- Labour
- Greens
- ACT
- NZ First
- Te Pāti Māori
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.
Topic	National	Labour	Greens	ACT	NZ First	Te Pāti Māori	Opportunity
Climate and disaster resilience
Infrastructure and local services
Housing
Tax and public spending

04 · Asked from Hastings

What changed when the question was asked from Hastings

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

NamedNot namedNamed only from HastingsDropped when asked from Hastings

Parties named in PF154 (Climate and disaster resilience), asked nationally and from Hastings
PF154 · Climate and disaster resilience	Asked nationally	Asked from Hastings
ChatGPT	5 parties named2,307 words National, named Labour, named Greens, named ACT, named NZ First, named Te Pāti Māori, not named Opportunity, not named	5 parties named1,817 words National, named Labour, named Greens, named ACT, named NZ First, named Te Pāti Māori, not named Opportunity, not named
Gemini	3 parties named701 words National, named Labour, named Greens, named ACT, not named NZ First, not named Te Pāti Māori, not named Opportunity, not named	3 parties named503 words National, named Labour, named Greens, dropped from the town answer ACT, not named NZ First, not named Te Pāti Māori, named only from the town Opportunity, not named
Google AI Mode	6 parties named609 words National, named Labour, named Greens, named ACT, named NZ First, named Te Pāti Māori, named Opportunity, not named	6 parties named648 words National, named Labour, named Greens, named ACT, named NZ First, named Te Pāti Māori, dropped from the town answer Opportunity, named only from the town
AI Overviews	6 parties named576 words National, named Labour, named Greens, named ACT, named NZ First, named Te Pāti Māori, not named Opportunity, named	6 parties named704 words National, named Labour, named Greens, named ACT, named NZ First, named Te Pāti Māori, not named Opportunity, named

05 · What they were told

How the assistants handled this voter's main question

The Heretaunga Plains question leads ChatGPT to describe a specific flood scheme, rivers and who might bear future costs. It explicitly warns that uncosted or uncommitted material is not a guaranteed outcome. That is more concrete than a general national discussion of climate adaptation.

Gemini and AI Mode largely present competing philosophies of central-local cost-sharing, property rights and public intervention. AI Overviews describes a preference for engineering and local drainage. The useful distinction is between a party's broad stance and a funded measure that applies to a particular protection area.

Suburb, flood category, insurance status and relevant scheme are not provided. The family's concern therefore cannot be converted into a promised reduction in premiums or a particular protection level. ChatGPT's invitation for a more precise area is appropriate, but the research reports only the first answer and does not supply a real household's identifying details.

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

46%government

Had sources8of 8

Showed you a link8of 8

1hbrc.govt.nz, government, cited in 7 answers
2greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 4 answers
3labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 4 answers
4national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 4 answers
5treasury.govt.nz, government, cited in 4 answers
6act.org.nz, party websites, cited in 3 answers
7beehive.govt.nz, government, cited in 3 answers
8environment.govt.nz, government, cited in 3 answers
9hastingsdc.govt.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
10hawkesbay.infocouncil.biz, other, cited in 2 answers

Gemini

50%government

Had sources7of 8

Showed you a link0of 8

1insurancebusinessmag.com, news, cited in 3 answers
2environment.govt.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
3hbrc.govt.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
4greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
5growregions.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
6hbcoast.co.nz, other, cited in 1 answers
7nationalinfrastructure.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
8phcc.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
9policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 1 answers
10selectcommittees.parliament.nz, government, cited in 1 answers

Google AI Mode

46%government

Had sources7of 8

Showed you a link2of 8

1hbrc.govt.nz, government, cited in 6 answers
2rnz.co.nz, news, cited in 3 answers
3insurancebusinessmag.com, news, cited in 2 answers
4nzherald.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
5baybuzz.co.nz, other, cited in 1 answers
6beehive.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
7elections.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
8environment.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
9growregions.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
10healthadvisory.co.nz, other, cited in 1 answers

AI Overviews

35%news

Had sources8of 8

Showed you a link2of 8

1rnz.co.nz, news, cited in 7 answers
2hbrc.govt.nz, government, cited in 5 answers
3nzherald.co.nz, news, cited in 5 answers
4whichparty.nz, comparison sites, cited in 5 answers
5environment.govt.nz, government, cited in 3 answers
6insidegovernment.co.nz, other, cited in 3 answers
7insurancebusinessmag.com, news, cited in 3 answers
8newstalkzb.co.nz, news, cited in 3 answers
9youtube.com, social media, cited in 3 answers
10facebook.com, social media, 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: 30 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.

4 questions, each written as this voter would ask it

Climate and disaster resilience

Infrastructure and local services

Housing

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 Hastings

How the assistants handled this voter's main question

Where the answers to this voter came from