70 statements on the issues defining New Zealand right now: the Treaty and co-governance, the cost of living, crime, housing, and tax. Every position is asked twice with opposite framing, revealing both your party alignment and your framing bias.
National
Your answers most closely match the National Party. You support tax cuts, fiscal responsibility, infrastructure investment, and a strong focus on law and order.
Labour
Your answers most closely match the Labour Party. You support social safety nets, investments in public healthcare and education, and state-backed climate action.
Green Party
Your answers most closely match the Green Party. You place high importance on aggressive carbon emission cuts, environmental protection, wealth redistribution, and social justice.
ACT
Your answers most closely match ACT New Zealand. You support classic liberal policies: a minimal state, tax simplification, deregulation, and individual liberties.
NZ First
Your answers most closely match New Zealand First. You support moderate protectionism, nationalist policies, stricter immigration controls, and support for seniors.
Te Pāti Māori
Your answers most closely match Te Pāti Māori. You support indigenous Māori rights and self-determination, environmental protection, and progressive social justice policies.
Statements, asked twice
You take a position on sharp political and ideological statements using a six-point agreement scale. Key positions appear twice with opposite framing, once sympathetic and once critical. How much your answer shifts between the two framings becomes your framing bias score.
Alignment, not loyalty
The result shows how closely your answers match each position across all issues, not just the ones you feel strongly about. You might find you align with a party or ideology you didn't expect, or that you're genuinely split between two.
Politics in New Zealand: the landscape behind this test
New Zealand replaced first-past-the-post with mixed-member proportional representation in 1996, and the change reshaped its politics. Voters cast two votes, one for a local candidate and one for a party, with the party vote determining overall seat share. Single-party majorities are now rare, so governing means negotiating.
The party system
Labour and National remain the two largest parties and the only realistic sources of a prime minister, but neither can usually govern alone. The Greens sit to Labour's left on economics and environment. ACT advances a classical liberal, small-state programme. New Zealand First occupies a populist position that has supported governments of both major parties. Te Pati Maori advocates for Maori rights and constitutional change.
Because coalition partners are needed, smaller parties translate modest vote shares into real policy concessions, and coalition agreements are published documents that shape the government's programme.
The cleavages that actually divide voters
The Treaty of Waitangi, signed in 1840, is central to New Zealand's constitutional arrangements and to its most contested arguments. Questions about co-governance, the role of te reo Maori in public life, and how Treaty obligations bind government are genuinely divisive in a way that has no close parallel abroad.
Housing affordability is persistently among the most severe in the developed world and dominates domestic debate. Agriculture's central economic role also makes climate policy unusually complicated, since a large share of emissions comes from farming rather than energy.
How this maps onto the compass
New Zealand built an extensive welfare state, then executed one of the most rapid market liberalisations in the OECD during the 1980s. The result is a mixed settlement: public healthcare and income support alongside comparatively open markets. On social questions the country is permissive by international standards.
This test asks about New Zealand policy, including Treaty questions. For the full profiles, see the New Zealand party guides.
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Your New Zealand political alignment
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Your answers most closely align with the Democratic Party platform.
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New Zealand Political Test