Voter S23 · one of 23 households
Homeowner exposed to flooding and insurance pressure
“We own a mortgaged home in an area affected by flooding. Insurance affordability, protection works and what happens after another flood are major concerns for us.”
- 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.
PF119
Climate and disaster resilience
We own a mortgaged home in an area affected by flooding. Insurance affordability, protection works and what happens after another flood are major concerns for us. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. How do parties compare on flood protection, climate adaptation and helping households after disasters?
4 answersPF120
Infrastructure and local services
We own a mortgaged home in an area affected by flooding. Insurance affordability, protection works and what happens after another flood are major concerns for us. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. Who would pay for flood defences under different party plans: homeowners, councils or central government?
4 answersPF121
Housing
We own a mortgaged home in an area affected by flooding. Insurance affordability, protection works and what happens after another flood are major concerns for us. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What do parties propose for homeowners whose property becomes difficult to insure or unsafe to live in?
4 answersPF122
Tax and public spending
We own a mortgaged home in an area affected by flooding. Insurance affordability, protection works and what happens after another flood are major concerns for us. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What are the trade-offs in how parties would fund climate adaptation and disaster recovery?
4 answers
Which parties AI put in front of this voter
Of the 16 answers this voter received, 13 left out at least one of the six parties in Parliament. Te Pāti Māori was named least often, in 4 of 16.
Answers naming each party, out of 16
National14 of 16 answersLabour14 of 16 answers
Greens13 of 16 answers
ACT15 of 16 answers
NZ First12 of 16 answers
Te Pāti Māori4 of 16 answers
Opportunity9 of 16 answers
ChatGPT
0 of 4 answers
named all six parties in Parliament
NationalLabour
Greens
ACT
NZ First
Te Pāti Māori (never named)
Gemini
0 of 4 answers
named all six parties in Parliament
NationalLabour
Greens
ACT
NZ First
Te Pāti Māori
Google AI Mode
1 of 4 answers
named all six parties in Parliament
NationalLabour
Greens
ACT
NZ First
Te Pāti Māori
AI Overviews
2 of 4 answers
named all six parties in Parliament
NationalLabour
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 | |||||||
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| Climate and disaster resilience | |||||||
| Infrastructure and local services | |||||||
| Housing | |||||||
| Tax and public spending |
How the assistants handled this voter's main question
PF119 ChatGPT breaks the flood-exposed household's problem into protection funding, insurance, occupation risk and immediate recovery. That is a useful separation of prevention, ongoing affordability and what happens after an event. It also asks for a region before offering a local comparison, recognising a material missing fact.
Gemini and AI Mode lean toward a description of government philosophies and ask whether the household is more concerned about staying or relocation. AI Overviews gives a policy table covering protection, adaptation and who pays. Those frames can make options legible, but they must not imply that a household can choose a guaranteed protection or buyout entitlement simply by choosing a party.
Insurance availability depends on more than election commitments. The scenario's housing, infrastructure and tax questions preserve that complexity. It should be paired with the geographically specific Hawke's Bay case R04 to see what local facts add, while recognising that the two prompts are not an experiment isolating geography.
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
treasury.govt.nz, government, cited in 4 answers - 2
act.org.nz, party websites, cited in 3 answers - 3
greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 3 answers - 4
national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 3 answers - 5
beehive.govt.nz, government, cited in 2 answers - 6
environment.govt.nz, government, cited in 2 answers - 7
labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers - 8
nzfirst.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers - 9
odt.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers - 10sciencemediacentre.co.nz, other, cited in 2 answers
Gemini
29%government
Had sources4of 4
Showed you a link0of 4
- 1
insurancebusinessmag.com, news, cited in 2 answers - 2eds.org.nz, other, cited in 1 answers
- 3
en.wikipedia.org, other, cited in 1 answers - 4
environment.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers - 5
opportunity.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers - 6
selectcommittees.parliament.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
Google AI Mode
38%news
Had sources4of 4
Showed you a link0of 4
- 1
rnz.co.nz, news, cited in 3 answers - 2
environment.govt.nz, government, cited in 2 answers - 3scoop.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
- 4
national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers - 5
nzflood.com, businesses, cited in 1 answers - 6
phcc.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers - 7sciencedirect.com, other, cited in 1 answers
- 8sustainablefinance.nz, other, cited in 1 answers
- 9
whichparty.nz, comparison sites, cited in 1 answers
AI Overviews
47%news
Had sources4of 4
Showed you a link0of 4
- 1
rnz.co.nz, news, cited in 4 answers - 2
whichparty.nz, comparison sites, cited in 4 answers - 3scoop.co.nz, news, cited in 3 answers
- 4
greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers - 5
national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers - 6
nzherald.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers - 7
stories.theconversation.com, news, cited in 2 answers - 8
business.scoop.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers - 9
community.scoop.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers - 10
deloitte.com, businesses, 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.