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Voter S05 · one of 23 households

Working household under mortgage pressure

“We own a home with a mortgage, have school-age children and rely on two wages. After mortgage payments, rates, power and groceries, there is little buffer.”

questions written for them
6
answers collected
24
AI assistants
4
asked nationally
NZ
01 · What they asked

6 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.

  • PF023

    Cost of living

    We own a home with a mortgage, have school-age children and rely on two wages. After mortgage payments, rates, power and groceries, there is little buffer. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What are the parties proposing about household costs, and which proposals would actually apply to a working family like ours?

    4 answers
  • PF024

    Tax and public spending

    We own a home with a mortgage, have school-age children and rely on two wages. After mortgage payments, rates, power and groceries, there is little buffer. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. How would party tax and family-support plans change the finances of a two-income family?

    4 answers
  • PF025

    Economy

    We own a home with a mortgage, have school-age children and rely on two wages. After mortgage payments, rates, power and groceries, there is little buffer. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. How much control can a government really have over mortgage rates, and what are the parties promising about economic stability?

    4 answers
  • PF026

    Fuel and energy

    We own a home with a mortgage, have school-age children and rely on two wages. After mortgage payments, rates, power and groceries, there is little buffer. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. Which parties have credible plans for electricity prices and supply?

    4 answers
  • PF027

    Education and childcare

    We own a home with a mortgage, have school-age children and rely on two wages. After mortgage payments, rates, power and groceries, there is little buffer. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. How do parties differ on school funding, learning support and costs that families pay themselves?

    4 answers
  • PF028

    Infrastructure and local services

    We own a home with a mortgage, have school-age children and rely on two wages. After mortgage payments, rates, power and groceries, there is little buffer. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What would national party policies change about local rates and water costs, and what remains a council decision?

    4 answers
02 · Parties named

Which parties AI put in front of this voter

Of the 24 answers this voter received, 16 left out at least one of the six parties in Parliament. Te Pāti Māori was named least often, in 10 of 24.

Answers naming each party, out of 24

  • National24 of 24 answers
  • Labour21 of 24 answers
  • Greens17 of 24 answers
  • ACT18 of 24 answers
  • NZ First14 of 24 answers
  • Te Pāti Māori10 of 24 answers
  • Opportunity6 of 24 answers
  • ChatGPT

    2 of 6 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

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

    3 of 6 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

    • National
    • Labour
    • Greens
    • ACT
    • NZ First
    • Te Pāti Māori
  • Google AI Mode

    1 of 6 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

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

    2 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 naming the party and how the claims about it split, across all four assistants.
TopicNationalLabourGreensACTNZ FirstTe Pāti MāoriOpportunity
Cost of living
Tax and public spending
Economy
Fuel and energy
Education and childcare
Infrastructure and local services
04 · What they were told

How the assistants handled this voter's main question

ChatGPT's concise PF023 answer separates tax, groceries and power from mortgage interest rates, which it calls mostly an indirect policy issue. It ends by asking for household income, property value, mortgage balance and expenditure before estimating an effect. That is a practical response to the question of which proposals actually apply.

Gemini explicitly notes that first-home assistance may not apply because the family already owns. AI Mode and AI Overviews group more policies under broad party or coalition approaches. The useful comparison is therefore not just how much policy is listed: it is whether the answer filters out an attractive but irrelevant measure and identifies what determines eligibility.

The household's small financial buffer does not establish low income. Tax thresholds, asset values and the ages of children can change the effect of a policy materially. The answers provide a starting map, not a verified household budget. The linked tax, energy and economy responses should be read together when assessing any claim of a net financial gain.

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

05 · 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

62%party websites

Had sources6of 6

Showed you a link6of 6

  1. 1national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 6 answers
  2. 2labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 5 answers
  3. 3greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 4 answers
  4. 4nzfirst.nz, party websites, cited in 4 answers
  5. 5act.org.nz, party websites, cited in 3 answers
  6. 6reuters.com, news, cited in 3 answers
  7. 71news.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
  8. 8opportunity.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  9. 9policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 2 answers
  10. 10assets.national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers

Gemini

18%party websites

Had sources5of 6

Showed you a link0of 6

  1. 11news.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
  2. 2bellgully.com, other, cited in 1 answers
  3. 3bnz.co.nz, businesses, cited in 1 answers
  4. 4electrification.co.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  5. 5facebook.com, social media, cited in 1 answers
  6. 6itsourplace.nz, other, cited in 1 answers
  7. 7labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  8. 8lightforce.co.nz, businesses, cited in 1 answers
  9. 9national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  10. 10nzvotecheck.com, comparison sites, cited in 1 answers

Google AI Mode

45%news

Had sources6of 6

Showed you a link3of 6

  1. 1rnz.co.nz, news, cited in 3 answers
  2. 21news.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
  3. 3labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  4. 4nzherald.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
  5. 5budget.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
  6. 6education.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
  7. 7elections.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
  8. 8kpmg.com, businesses, cited in 1 answers
  9. 9legislation.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
  10. 10mcert.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers

AI Overviews

27%news

Had sources5of 6

Showed you a link1of 6

  1. 1rnz.co.nz, news, cited in 5 answers
  2. 2labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 4 answers
  3. 3national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 4 answers
  4. 4nzherald.co.nz, news, cited in 4 answers
  5. 51news.co.nz, news, cited in 3 answers
  6. 6facebook.com, social media, cited in 2 answers
  7. 7kpmg.com, businesses, cited in 2 answers
  8. 8nexia.co.nz, businesses, cited in 2 answers
  9. 9pwc.co.nz, businesses, cited in 2 answers
  10. 10act.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 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: 22 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.