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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
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.

  • 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 answers
  • PF120

    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 answers
  • PF121

    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 answers
  • PF122

    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
02 · Parties named

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 answers
  • Labour14 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

    • National
    • Labour
    • Greens
    • ACT
    • NZ First
    • Te Pāti Māori (never named)
  • Gemini

    0 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

    2 of 4 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 · 16 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
Climate and disaster resilience
Infrastructure and local services
Housing
Tax and public spending
04 · What they were told

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.

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

42%party websites

Had sources4of 4

Showed you a link4of 4

  1. 1treasury.govt.nz, government, cited in 4 answers
  2. 2act.org.nz, party websites, cited in 3 answers
  3. 3greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 3 answers
  4. 4national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 3 answers
  5. 5beehive.govt.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
  6. 6environment.govt.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
  7. 7labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  8. 8nzfirst.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  9. 9odt.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
  10. 10sciencemediacentre.co.nz, other, cited in 2 answers

Gemini

29%government

Had sources4of 4

Showed you a link0of 4

  1. 1insurancebusinessmag.com, news, cited in 2 answers
  2. 2eds.org.nz, other, cited in 1 answers
  3. 3en.wikipedia.org, other, cited in 1 answers
  4. 4environment.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
  5. 5opportunity.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  6. 6selectcommittees.parliament.nz, government, cited in 1 answers

Google AI Mode

38%news

Had sources4of 4

Showed you a link0of 4

  1. 1rnz.co.nz, news, cited in 3 answers
  2. 2environment.govt.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
  3. 3scoop.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
  4. 4national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  5. 5nzflood.com, businesses, cited in 1 answers
  6. 6phcc.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  7. 7sciencedirect.com, other, cited in 1 answers
  8. 8sustainablefinance.nz, other, cited in 1 answers
  9. 9whichparty.nz, comparison sites, cited in 1 answers

AI Overviews

47%news

Had sources4of 4

Showed you a link0of 4

  1. 1rnz.co.nz, news, cited in 4 answers
  2. 2whichparty.nz, comparison sites, cited in 4 answers
  3. 3scoop.co.nz, news, cited in 3 answers
  4. 4greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  5. 5national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  6. 6nzherald.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
  7. 7stories.theconversation.com, news, cited in 2 answers
  8. 8business.scoop.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers
  9. 9community.scoop.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers
  10. 10deloitte.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.