National tops the list of donations to political parties with almost $5m in contributions
National tops the list of donations to political parties with almost $5m in contributions
Annual donations to political parties published today show larger amounts than in the past, with new rules requiring smaller donations to be reported.
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 @Dave@lemmy.nz and @TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz 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 parliamentOf the "serious" parties, the most efficient in $/% of vote are TPM and TOP, but when talking $/seat TMP is streaks ahead of everyone else.
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.
Ok but what do the numbers look like when you add donations to the Taxpayers Union into Act figures?
And Groundswill