National tops the list of donations to political parties with almost $5m in contributions (www.rnz.co.nz)

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

National took a huge amount of the total donations of $10,489,965.49; if you exclude NZF they got more than everyone else combined!

Party	$ Donated	% of Total Donations	% of Vote	$ per Vote%	$/seat
National	$4,889,538.20	46.57%	38.06	$128,469/%	$101,865/seat
Labour	$1,627,713.92	15.5%	26.91%	$60,487/%	$48,874/seat
Greens	$1,588,680.02	15.13%	11.6%	$136,955/%	$105,912/seat
ACT	$1,463,445.22	13.94%	8.64	$169,380/%	$133,040/seat
New Zealand First	$758,773.91	7.23%	6.08%	$124,789/%	$94,847/seat
The Opportunities Party	$82,648.09	0.79%	2.22%	$38,228/%	--
Te Pāti Māori	$53,846.42	0.51%	3.08%	$17,482/%	$8,974/seat
Animal Justice Party	$9,874.36	0.09%	0.17%	$58,084/%	--
NZ Outdoors and Freedom	$2,370.00	0.02%	??	??	--
Women's Rights Party	$12,107.00	0.12%	0.08%	$151,337/%	--
Vision NZ	$9,776.35	0.09%	??	??	--
Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party	$192	~0.0%	0.45%	$426/%	--

But as @[email protected] and @[email protected] point out, this does not include the non-official funding from others.

Edits: added, results and comparisons to how much they got donated.
?? are because Vision NZ and The Outdoor and Freedom Party are combined to 0.33% of the vote.
-- no seats in parliament

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Of the "serious" parties, the most efficient in $/% of vote are TPM and TOP, but when talking $/seat TMP is streaks ahead of everyone else.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's virtually impossible to keep money out of politics and it's no surprise that the party of the oligarchs for the oligarchs gets the most money.

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