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🇳🇿 National Debt
$219,600,000,000
Per household
$115,578
Per day growth
$27,397,260
% of GDP
49.9%
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The Wayward Hobbit · Electoral Analysis · Aotearoa

NZ 2026 Election
Poll Tracker

The most detailed NZ election tracker — weighted poll aggregates, Sainte-Laguë seat projections, 50,000-run Monte Carlo simulation and weekly AI analysis.

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Election: 7 Nov 2026
50,000-run Monte Carlo
5-poll aggregate
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Latest Polls

One poll per organisation · Party vote % of decided voters · Most recent five

PollsterFieldworkn NAT LAB GRN ACT NZF TPM TOP Lead
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Poll Averages

Votes normalised to 7 major parties · Weighted by sample size × recency decay

Simple Average unweighted
Weighted Average n × 0.5^(age/21)
Weight Calculation · Reference: today
Summary Comparison
Method NATLAB GRNACT NZFTPM TOPLAB lead
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Seat Projections

Sainte-Laguë · 120-seat Parliament · 5% threshold · TPM guaranteed ≥4 electorate seats

Weighted Average · Parliament Strip
■ National■ ACT ■ NZ First■ Labour ■ Greens■ Te Pāti Māori
NZ House of Representatives · Hemicycle · Each dot = one seat
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Bloc Totals

Weighted average projection · Majority = 61 seats · NZ First counted separately

Right Bloc
vs
Left Bloc
NZ First · Kingmaker
Can swing either side over 61
Majority threshold: 61 seats
Party Seat Count
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Monte Carlo Simulation

50,000 runs · Per-party sampling σ = 0.9–1.0 pp · Correlated bloc systematic σ = 1.2 pp

Running 50,000 simulations…
Seat Distribution · Median & 80% credible interval
Government Formation Scenarios
ScenarioPartiesMedian seatsProbability
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Change Detection

Compared to previous run

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Analysis

Weekly AI-generated electoral analysis · Published by The Wayward Hobbit · Updates every Monday

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Vote Compass

15 policy questions · See which NZ parties align with your views · Takes ~3 minutes

Answer each question using the five-point scale. Your responses are never stored — everything runs locally in your browser. Skip any question you'd rather not answer.

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Based on your answers, here's how your views align with each party's policy positions. Results are indicative — no quiz can fully capture political complexity.

Your position across policy dimensions
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Party Policies

Key policies per party · Click "Fact-check" for AI analysis of evidence base and likely effects

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National Debt Clock

Total Crown Borrowings · Same methodology as debtclock.nz · Ticking in real time · Source: NZ Treasury HYEFU 2025

NEW ZEALAND TOTAL CROWN BORROWINGS
$228,900,000,000
Growing at approx. $2,189 per second · ~49% of GDP
Your household's share
$120,473
Based on ~1.9m NZ households
% of GDP
~52%
Total Crown Borrowings basis
Growth of debt per day
$189,041,096
~$69b annual borrowing ÷ 365
Growth of debt per hour
$7,876,712
Per day ÷ 24
Debt per person
$43,851
NZ population ~5.2m
Net core Crown debt
$184.3b
41.9% of GDP · Jan 2026
Interest cost per year
~$11b
~$5,800 per household/year
Forecast to reach
$354b
By 2029 · NZ Treasury Budget 2025
Total Crown Borrowings as % of GDP
0% ~52% ← NZ now 100%
Historical Total Crown Borrowings trajectory
SOURCE · Total Crown Borrowings — same methodology as debtclock.nz (Taxpayers' Union) · Includes core Crown + Crown entities (Kāinga Ora, KiwiRail, ACC etc.) · Base: HYEFU 2025 Crown Balance Sheet (16 Dec 2025) · Growing ~$69b/year in net new borrowing · treasury.govt.nz · debtclock.nz
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