Voter S12 · one of 23 households
Retired homeowner on NZ Super
“I'm retired, own my home and rely mainly on NZ Super. Rates, insurance and power bills are rising in importance for my budget, and I need regular healthcare.”
- questions written for them
- 4
- answers collected
- 16
- AI assistants
- 4
- asked nationally
- NZ
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.
PF063
Retirement and aged care
I'm retired, own my home and rely mainly on NZ Super. Rates, insurance and power bills are rising in importance for my budget, and I need regular healthcare. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What are the parties' current positions on NZ Super eligibility, payments and the retirement age?
4 answersPF064
Healthcare
I'm retired, own my home and rely mainly on NZ Super. Rates, insurance and power bills are rising in importance for my budget, and I need regular healthcare. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. How do parties compare on access to GPs, specialists and healthcare for older people?
4 answersPF065
Cost of living
I'm retired, own my home and rely mainly on NZ Super. Rates, insurance and power bills are rising in importance for my budget, and I need regular healthcare. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What would party policies do about living costs for a retired homeowner on NZ Super?
4 answersPF066
Infrastructure and local services
I'm retired, own my home and rely mainly on NZ Super. Rates, insurance and power bills are rising in importance for my budget, and I need regular healthcare. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What could national party policies change about local rates, and what would still be decided by councils?
4 answers
Which parties AI put in front of this voter
Of the 16 answers this voter received, 12 left out at least one of the six parties in Parliament. Te Pāti Māori was named least often, in 5 of 16.
Answers naming each party, out of 16
National16 of 16 answers
Labour13 of 16 answers
Greens13 of 16 answers
ACT13 of 16 answers
NZ First10 of 16 answers
Te Pāti Māori5 of 16 answers
Opportunity5 of 16 answers
ChatGPT
1 of 4 answers
named all six parties in Parliament
- National
- Labour
- Greens
- ACT
- NZ First
- Te Pāti Māori
Gemini
1 of 4 answers
named all six parties in Parliament
- National
- Labour
- Greens
- ACT
- NZ First
- Te Pāti Māori
Google AI Mode
1 of 4 answers
named all six parties in Parliament
- National
- Labour
- Greens
- ACT
- NZ First
- Te Pāti Māori
AI Overviews
1 of 4 answers
named all six parties in Parliament
- National
- Labour
- Greens
- ACT
- NZ First
- Te Pāti Māori
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 · 16 answers
| Topic | National | Labour | Greens | ACT | NZ First | Te Pāti Māori | Opportunity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retirement and aged care | |||||||
| Healthcare | |||||||
| Cost of living | |||||||
| Infrastructure and local services |
How the assistants handled this voter's main question
The retired homeowner asks about eligibility, payments and retirement age, but is already retired. PF063 ChatGPT usefully asks whether proposals affect current recipients or younger cohorts. The consequential issue for this persona is continuity and purchasing power, not merely a headline future eligibility age.
Gemini attributes a particular delayed age-rise timetable to National. AI Overviews instead qualifies National's age position with cross-party consensus, and introduces a Labour means-testing position. The separate shared retirement question PF143 gives another set of formulations. This is an evidence-backed reason to inspect exact dates and current party statements rather than treating a plausible-looking pension table as settled policy.
Rates, insurance, power and healthcare are retained as separate pressures in the dossier. Homeownership does not eliminate fixed-income vulnerability. The study does not verify a personal entitlement or infer a preference from age: its contribution is to show which pension distinctions and household costs the answer brings forward.
From the study's case study of this voter. Each extract opens the full answer with the passage highlighted.
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 sources4of 4
Showed you a link4of 4
- 1
legislation.govt.nz, government, cited in 3 answers - 2
national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 3 answers - 3
act.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers - 4
greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers - 5
labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers - 6
nzfirst.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers - 7
workandincome.govt.nz, government, cited in 2 answers - 8greypowermag.co.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
- 9
health.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers - 10
localmatters.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers
Gemini
40%advocacy groups
Had sources4of 4
Showed you a link0of 4
- 1greypowermag.co.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 3 answers
- 2
1news.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers - 3
apex.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers - 4localmatters.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers
- 5national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
- 6
nzvotecheck.com, comparison sites, cited in 1 answers - 7
policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 1 answers - 8waateanews.com, news, cited in 1 answers
Google AI Mode
46%news
Had sources4of 4
Showed you a link0of 4
- 1
nzherald.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers - 2
rnz.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers - 3apex.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
- 4greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
- 5greypowermag.co.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
- 6labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
- 7national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
- 8
newstalkzb.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers - 9
nzdoctor.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers - 10nzfirst.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
AI Overviews
38%news
Had sources4of 4
Showed you a link0of 4
- 1greypowermag.co.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 3 answers
- 2
youtube.com, social media, cited in 3 answers - 31news.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
- 4greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
- 5
lifetimeworkplace.co.nz, businesses, cited in 2 answers - 6national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
- 7nzherald.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
- 8rnz.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
- 9apex.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
- 10
facebook.com, social media, 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: 16 of this voter's 16 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.