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New on KiwiValues: where each party's voters sit, step by step. Seven interactive explainers, one per party, all built the same way from the survey's answers: what sets each group apart, where they agree and where they split. https://kiwivalues.nz/parties/ #nzpol #nz

Does the justice system discriminate against ethnic and cultural minorities? Greens voters agree at +0.54. NZ First voters disagree at -0.71, with most of them bunched on the disagree side. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/greens-and-nz-first/ 5/12 #nzpol #nz

Is our history one of colonial oppression and the exploitation of indigenous peoples? Greens voters agree firmly at +0.67. NZ First voters disagree, at -0.58. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/greens-and-nz-first/ 4/12 #nzpol #nz

Do Treaty settlements favour Māori too much? Greens voters say no, at -0.66. NZ First voters lean yes, at +0.52. It's one of the few splits where NZ First is the side that agrees. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/greens-and-nz-first/ 3/12 #nzpol #nz

Should the Treaty of Waitangi play a larger role in how the country is governed? Greens voters agree at +0.49. NZ First voters lean firmly the other way, at -0.68. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/greens-and-nz-first/ 2/12 #nzpol #nz

Greens and NZ First voters, side by side on 16 questions. They split hardest over the Treaty, colonial history, the justice system and gender identity. On power companies, civics and housing they land in almost the same spot. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/greens-and-nz-first/ 1/12 #nzpol #nz

That's the series. Two clear blocs on welfare, with the right's opposition fading from UBI to a shorter work week. The right-bloc groups are small (43, 43 and 28) and the sample leans left, so read direction, not exact numbers. https://kiwivalues.nz/ 8/8 #nzpol #nz

On the compass all three statements pull left and barely up or down. UBI pulls hardest, the shorter work week least. Unlike the land value tax last time, nothing here touches the libertarian to authoritarian axis. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/welfare-and-work/ 7/8 #nzpol #nz

Which answers move together? All three pairs sit between r = +0.42 and +0.52. Among Greens voters alone, the strongest pair drops from +0.52 to +0.11. Most of what looks like one belief is really the gap between parties. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/welfare-and-work/ 6/8 #nzpol #nz

Put UBI and free school lunches on one plot and the parties spread out further than on either alone. Labour is the giveaway: right among Greens and OPP on lunches (+0.60), but well behind them on a UBI (+0.25). https://kiwivalues.nz/research/welfare-and-work/ 5/8 #nzpol #nz

A 32 hour work week? The left still likes it: Greens +0.68, OPP +0.45, Labour +0.42. On the right, NZ First (-0.01) and National (-0.02) are basically neutral. ACT is the only party still against it, at -0.22 with 56% disagreeing. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/welfare-and-work/ 4/8 #nzpol #nz

Free lunches at primary schools. 97% of Greens voters agree, a mean of +0.80. Labour +0.60, OPP +0.53. ACT -0.54. NZ First (-0.07) and National (-0.18) are much closer to a coin flip. The widest gap in the topic, 1.34 points. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/welfare-and-work/ 3/8 #nzpol #nz

Is a universal basic income a good idea? OPP voters are keenest at +0.65, with 90% agreeing. Greens +0.53, Labour a softer +0.25. ACT -0.59, National -0.44, NZ First -0.30. 84% of ACT voters disagree. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/welfare-and-work/ 2/8 #nzpol #nz

Welfare and work splits the same two blocs as tax did: Greens, OPP and Labour voters on one side of all three statements, ACT, NZ First and National on the other. But on a shorter work week, only ACT voters are still really against it. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/welfare-and-work/ 1/8 #nzpol #nz

That's the series. Justice pulls mainly left to right; nothing to hide and online monitoring pull toward authoritarian, firearms toward libertarian. Right-bloc groups here are small, so read direction, not exact numbers. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/crime-justice-and-surveillance/ 12/12 #nzpol #nz

Which answers move together? The two justice statements, r = 0.57. The two surveillance statements only 0.28, and firearms barely link to anything. Less one dimension, more a few loosely related questions. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/crime-justice-and-surveillance/ 11/12 #nzpol #nz

Plot the two justice statements together and the parties fall on a diagonal: Greens agree with both, ACT and NZ First disagree with both, National in between. No surveillance pair separates them like this. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/crime-justice-and-surveillance/ 10/12 #nzpol #nz

Is government itself a threat to your civil liberties? Five parties reject it about equally, 82% to 87% of their voters disagreeing. ACT is the exception: still against on average, but a third agree. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/crime-justice-and-surveillance/ 9/12 #nzpol #nz

Should you be able to own a firearm? ACT +0.40 and NZ First +0.39 agree, about seven in ten of each. Greens -0.41 and Labour -0.34 disagree. OPP sits exactly on neutral and National leans to agree. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/crime-justice-and-surveillance/ 8/12 #nzpol #nz

The topic in one picture: on the two justice statements the gap between parties is about twice the spread inside a party. On surveillance and firearms it's the other way round. Party vote doesn't predict those. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/crime-justice-and-surveillance/ 7/12 #nzpol #nz

Should the government monitor online activity to protect us from terrorism? ACT -0.58 and NZ First -0.51 lean clearly against. Greens, OPP and Labour sit near neutral, about a third agreeing. National splits evenly. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/crime-justice-and-surveillance/ 6/12 #nzpol #nz

As shares: Labour voters split 51% disagree to 37% agree on nothing to hide, nothing to fear. NZ First 55% to 34%, ACT 47% to 40%, National 36% to 43%. Knowing a party vote tells you very little here. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/crime-justice-and-surveillance/ 5/12 #nzpol #nz

Nothing to hide, nothing to fear? All six party averages land within half a point, Greens -0.52 to National -0.02. That isn't agreement: inside Labour, NZ First and ACT the middle half runs from disagree to agree. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/crime-justice-and-surveillance/ 4/12 #nzpol #nz

Rehabilitate criminals rather than punish them? Greens +0.69 and OPP +0.61 are near unanimous, Labour +0.40. ACT disagrees and NZ First leans against. National sits right on neutral, so the right doesn't move as one here. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/crime-justice-and-surveillance/ 3/12 #nzpol #nz

Does our justice system discriminate against minorities? Greens +0.54, Labour +0.25 and OPP +0.17 agree. NZ First -0.72 and ACT -0.66 clearly disagree, National more mildly. The widest party split in the topic. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/crime-justice-and-surveillance/ 2/12 #nzpol #nz

New Issue by issue post: crime, justice and surveillance. On justice the parties split left from right. On surveillance, every party splits within itself. Sample leans left, 84% of named 2023 votes here vs 44% really. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/crime-justice-and-surveillance/ 1/12 #nzpol #nz

That's the series. Voters split cleanly over taxing wealth in principle, and much less cleanly once it's a specific tax. Self-selected sample that leans left, so read direction rather than exact numbers. https://kiwivalues.nz/ 9/9 #nzpol #nz

Three of these four statements pull almost straight left or right on the compass. Heavily taxing the rich has the second-biggest left-right pull of all 60 statements. The land value tax also pulls toward the libertarian end. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/tax-and-wealth/ 8/9 #nzpol #nz

Which answers move together? Taxing the rich and calling billionaires hoarders run together at r = +0.77. Among Greens voters alone that drops to +0.53. A lot of what looks like one belief is really the gap between parties. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/tax-and-wealth/ 7/9 #nzpol #nz

96% of Greens voters want the rich heavily taxed. Only 49% want a land value tax. OPP is the only party whose voters back the named tax more than the principle, and among OPP voters the two answers barely relate (r = +0.02). https://kiwivalues.nz/research/tax-and-wealth/ 6/9 #nzpol #nz

Then we named an actual tax. A land value tax: OPP voters +0.52, with 81% agreeing. Greens +0.14, Labour +0.05, and NZ First -0.78 on a small sample. ACT and National are left off, too few answers yet. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/tax-and-wealth/ 5/9 #nzpol #nz

Is a capital gains tax an envy tax on the successful? Agreeing here means rejecting the tax, and 78% of everyone disagrees. ACT voters are the exception, 81% agreeing. NZ First voters are split: 51% agree, 40% disagree. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/tax-and-wealth/ 4/9 #nzpol #nz

Are billionaires selfish hoarders of excess wealth? Greens voters say yes at +0.76, Labour +0.45. OPP voters are cooler at +0.30, and 22% of them disagree outright. ACT -0.62, National -0.44, NZ First -0.36. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/tax-and-wealth/ 3/9 #nzpol #nz

Should the rich be heavily taxed to reduce inequality? Greens voters +0.78, Labour +0.47, OPP +0.39. ACT -0.77, National -0.45, NZ First -0.34. 96% of Greens voters agree and 95% of ACT voters disagree. The widest gap in the topic. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/tax-and-wealth/ 2/9 #nzpol #nz

Tax is the cleanest left-right split in the survey. On three statements about taxing wealth, six parties' voters sort into two blocs with nobody crossing over. Then we asked about a land value tax, and the blocs fell apart. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/tax-and-wealth/ 1/9 #nzpol #nz

That is the series. OPP voters are marked out by tax policy rather than by where they sit, they lean libertarian, and they skew older and more male than the survey overall. Left-leaning sample, so read direction. Where do you land? https://kiwivalues.nz/ 8/8 #nzpol #nz

Run every OPP supporter's position through the site's nearest-dot matching and 46% land closest to OPP's own dot. The rest divide almost evenly between the two parties either side of it, 24% and 23%. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/who-votes-opp/ 7/8 #nzpol #nz

On money and housing OPP voters look settled: 23% in households between $120,000 and $180,000 against 17% of everyone, 15% owning mortgage-free against 11%, and 12% renting privately against 17%. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/who-votes-opp/ 6/8 #nzpol #nz

OPP supporters are the most male of the three large groups here, 79% against 68% of everyone, and the oldest: 18% of them are 55 or over, against 8% of Greens voters and 4% of Labour voters. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/who-votes-opp/ 5/8 #nzpol #nz

OPP voters are the least concentrated of the three large groups on the left-right axis. But three quarters of them sit on the libertarian side of the line or within a whisker of it, and that is the clearest thing the compass says here. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/who-votes-opp/ 4/8 #nzpol #nz

Among themselves, OPP voters agree most that the market alone will not protect the environment (95% agree), that Māori culture is important to New Zealand (94%) and that we should build more apartments and townhouses (92%). https://kiwivalues.nz/research/who-votes-opp/ 3/8 #nzpol #nz

The clearest marker of an OPP voter is a land value tax: +0.52 with 81% agreeing, while every other group we can measure sits at or below neutral. They also give a universal basic income its strongest backing of any group here. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/who-votes-opp/ 2/8 #nzpol #nz

Third in the series profiling one party's voters: OPP. The 196 here sit left of centre and on the libertarian side. Worth saying up front: our sample leans left, so this is likely one slice of OPP's base rather than all of it. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/who-votes-opp/ 1/8 #nzpol #nz

That is the series. Labour voters agree most about Māori culture, split hardest on firearms, and only two in five land nearest their own party's dot. Self-selected sample, so read direction rather than exact numbers. Where do you land? https://kiwivalues.nz/ 8/8 #nzpol #nz

Run every Labour voter's position through the site's nearest-dot matching and only 41% land closest to Labour's own dot. The rest split evenly between the two parties either side of it. Its dot sits in a crowded part of the compass. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/who-votes-labour/ 7/8 #nzpol #nz

On money and housing: 39% of Labour voters own with a mortgage against 33% of everyone, and 13% are in households over $180,000 against 9%. The under $40,000 group is smaller than in the sample overall, 23% against 29%. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/who-votes-labour/ 6/8 #nzpol #nz

Labour voters in the survey are its mid-career end. 35 to 44 year olds are 32% of them against 22% of everyone, 45 to 54 year olds 17% against 12%, and 18 to 24 year olds only 12% against 20%. Gender looks much like the sample. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/who-votes-labour/ 5/8 #nzpol #nz

How settled are they? On the compass's up-down axis Labour's middle half runs from -0.67 to +0.49, the second tightest of the six parties we can measure. On left-right they are looser than the party furthest left, tighter than most. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/who-votes-labour/ 4/8 #nzpol #nz

Labour voters are the hardest group here to tell apart from everyone else. Their widest gap on any statement is 0.27, on the COVID response: +0.73 against +0.46 for the rest. Both of the other large groups have gaps twice that size. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/who-votes-labour/ 3/8 #nzpol #nz

98% of Labour voters agree that Māori culture is important to New Zealand. It is their highest agreement and their tightest spread of any statement. Taxing the rich, the thing you might expect to unite them most, comes well behind it. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/who-votes-labour/ 2/8 #nzpol #nz

Next in the series on one party's voters on their own terms: Labour. The 155 Labour voters here sit left of centre and almost exactly on the line between authoritarian and libertarian, and their average lands on the party's own dot. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/who-votes-labour/ 1/8 #nzpol #nz