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Voter S20 · one of 23 households

Pacific household with children and older relatives

“I'm a Pacific voter in a multigenerational household with children and older relatives. Our main concerns are household costs, enough space and access to healthcare.”

questions written for them
5
answers collected
20
AI assistants
4
asked nationally
NZ
01 · What they asked

5 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.

  • PF105

    Housing

    I'm a Pacific voter in a multigenerational household with children and older relatives. Our main concerns are household costs, enough space and access to healthcare. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What would parties do about affordable housing suitable for larger households?

    4 answers
  • PF106

    Cost of living

    I'm a Pacific voter in a multigenerational household with children and older relatives. Our main concerns are household costs, enough space and access to healthcare. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. Which party policies could help a multigenerational household with food, power and other living costs?

    4 answers
  • PF107

    Healthcare

    I'm a Pacific voter in a multigenerational household with children and older relatives. Our main concerns are household costs, enough space and access to healthcare. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. How do parties compare on affordable healthcare and services accessible to Pacific families?

    4 answers
  • PF108

    Education and childcare

    I'm a Pacific voter in a multigenerational household with children and older relatives. Our main concerns are household costs, enough space and access to healthcare. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What are parties proposing about learning support and opportunities for children from Pacific communities?

    4 answers
  • PF109

    Retirement and aged care

    I'm a Pacific voter in a multigenerational household with children and older relatives. Our main concerns are household costs, enough space and access to healthcare. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What do parties propose about supporting older relatives who live with family rather than in residential care?

    4 answers
02 · Parties named

Which parties AI put in front of this voter

Of the 20 answers this voter received, 9 left out at least one of the six parties in Parliament. NZ First was named least often, in 13 of 20.

Answers naming each party, out of 20

  • National20 of 20 answers
  • Labour20 of 20 answers
  • Greens19 of 20 answers
  • ACT16 of 20 answers
  • NZ First13 of 20 answers
  • Te Pāti Māori14 of 20 answers
  • Opportunity6 of 20 answers
  • ChatGPT

    4 of 5 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

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

    3 of 5 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

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

    2 of 5 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

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

    2 of 5 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.

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Showing all four assistants · 20 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
Housing
Cost of living
Healthcare
Education and childcare
Retirement and aged care
04 · What they were told

How the assistants handled this voter's main question

For the multigenerational Pacific household, PF105 ChatGPT identifies enough bedrooms, accessibility and proximity to services as part of affordability. That is a useful expansion of the question: a cheap but unsuitable dwelling would not meet the stated need. Gemini likewise recognises space and access to healthcare.

AI Mode discusses a first-home loan threshold but explicitly notes that the scheme is not exclusively for large Pacific families. This is a helpful boundary. AI Overviews presents broad party housing mechanisms, which can explain supply but do not demonstrate that appropriately sized homes will become available to this household.

The scenario does not say that the family is a first-home buyer or a social-housing tenant. Those pathways should be offered as possibilities with eligibility checks. Its health, costs, education and retirement questions ensure that children and older relatives remain part of the assessment without turning Pacific identity into a presumed party choice.

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

48%party websites

Had sources4of 5

Showed you a link4of 5

  1. 1act.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  2. 2greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  3. 3labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  4. 4national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  5. 5nzfirst.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  6. 6policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 2 answers
  7. 7reuters.com, news, cited in 2 answers
  8. 8action.greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  9. 9apex.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  10. 10beehive.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers

Gemini

50%advocacy groups

Had sources5of 5

Showed you a link0of 5

  1. 1ageingwellnz.co.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  2. 2apex.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  3. 3drnz.co.nz, businesses, cited in 1 answers
  4. 4facebook.com, social media, cited in 1 answers
  5. 5greypowermag.co.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  6. 6hud.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
  7. 7labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  8. 8nzvotecheck.com, comparison sites, cited in 1 answers
  9. 9oece.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  10. 10opportunity.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers

Google AI Mode

40%party websites

Had sources5of 5

Showed you a link2of 5

  1. 1labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 3 answers
  2. 2national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  3. 3policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 2 answers
  4. 4consumer.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  5. 5greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  6. 6greypowermag.co.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  7. 7guardiansmith.co.nz, other, cited in 1 answers
  8. 8mymortgage.co.nz, businesses, cited in 1 answers
  9. 9nzherald.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers
  10. 10pacificlearners.co.nz, other, cited in 1 answers

AI Overviews

30%news

Had sources5of 5

Showed you a link0of 5

  1. 1nzherald.co.nz, news, cited in 4 answers
  2. 2rnz.co.nz, news, cited in 4 answers
  3. 3facebook.com, social media, cited in 3 answers
  4. 4national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 3 answers
  5. 5policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 3 answers
  6. 6vote.nz, government, cited in 3 answers
  7. 71news.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
  8. 8cab.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 2 answers
  9. 9govt.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
  10. 10labour.org.nz, party websites, 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: 19 of this voter's 20 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.