Reposted by The Progress ReportJulie Fairey (she/her) @juliefairey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Main reason for changing voting method was actually the insecurity of postal. As shown by proven electoral fraud in Papatoetoe that resulted in a do over, and currently alleged & under investigation in Manurewa too. I hope that booth will increase turnout too, but integrity was the winner today. 1142
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 29/09/2026And it's a very good reason to do it, and a very strong argument against calls for online voting! 130
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 29/09/2026Booth voting will cost Auckland $31–40m, compared with about $16m for postal, and the evidence that it lifts turnout is thin. If we care about turnout, the conversation needs to be in Parliament, not the council chamber. theprogressreport.co.nz/post/435/theprogressreport.co.nzBooths won't fix Auckland's turnout problem. Compulsory voting would. - The Progress Report 011
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 29/09/2026Across the Tasman: councils in NSW, where voting is compulsory, get 80%+ turnout. In WA, where it's voluntary, turnout is around 30%, and WA's minister is now looking at making it compulsory. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-18/compulsory-voting-flagged-for-wa-local-government-election/105901804abc.net.auWest Australians face compulsory council election voting amid low turnoutVoting in council elections could become mandatory in Western Australia if the turnout for this weekend's poll continues to plummet, the local government minister warns. 100
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 29/09/2026It's not just two cases. A study of 1,400+ elections in 116 countries found enforced compulsory voting lifts turnout by 15–18 points on average, and up to 27 points where fines are actually collected. tinyurl.com/ycpt2nyutinyurl.comIs compulsory voting a solution to low and declining turnout? Cross-national evidence since 1945 | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge CoreIs compulsory voting a solution to low and declining turnout? Cross-national evidence since 1945 - Volume 12 Issue 1 100
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 29/09/2026Exhibit B: Flanders did the reverse. It scrapped compulsory local voting in 2024 and turnout fell from 92% to 63%. In the big cities, 4 in 10 stayed home, and young people dropped off most. www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2024/10/14/5-takeaways-from-sundays-local-elections/vrt.be5 takeaways from Sunday’s local elections | VRT NWS: newsAcross the country people went to the polls yesterday to elect new local and provincial councils. These were the first elections in Flanders without any mandatory attendance at polling stations: peopl... 110
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 29/09/2026Exhibit A: Tasmania. Council elections stayed postal but became compulsory in 2022. Turnout went from about 59% to 85%, up 26 points, with the same postal ballot. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Ta...en.wikipedia.org2022 Tasmanian local elections - Wikipedia 120
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 29/09/2026Auckland Council has voted to bring back booth voting in 2028 to lift turnout. 2025 turnout was 29%, the lowest since the supercity began. But the international evidence says the voting method is a sideshow. The real lever is compulsory voting. 🧵 #nzpol 32010
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 29/09/2026I suspect that just like the last two elections Te Ao Māori News will have commissioned polls in the other Māori electorates - so I guess we'll have a good idea fairly soon! Very glad they do this. 010
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 29/09/2026Full Te Tai Tonga poll results here: www.teaonews.co.nz/2026/09/29/w...teaonews.co.nzWhakaata Māori-Curia poll reveals major shift in Te Tai Tonga raceA Te Tai Tonga poll puts Labour ahead, while Tākuta Ferris faces mixed approval ratings and voters prioritise honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi. 100
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 29/09/2026Obviously the Māori electorates are very different to the general electorates, but I feel the fear of overhangs may be overblown. It's looking more and more like Labour are going to pick up a big haul of electorates, likely including many National-held ones no one is looking at. #nzpol 391
Reposted by The Progress Reporthenry cooke @henrycooke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Labour won campaign launch day with some pretty simple political wisdom: - Don’t hire a room you can’t fill - Use your time in the spotlight to offer voters something My piece on yday: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...thepost.co.nzLabour outshines National in campaign launch battle with high-energy eventANALYSIS: Labour won in a walk by over-stuffing a smaller room than National’s. 14817
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 28/09/2026Oh and one last thing: I've also uploaded today's TVNZ-Verian poll so you can play around with those results! 000
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 28/09/2026It's pretty complex - fingers crossed there are no bugs, but please let me know if anything seems off. As always, if you disagree with any of the electorate predictions you can always override the electorate outcomes yourself. 100
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 28/09/2026Some big caveats with this: it just applies a scaled uniform swing to each electorate result, but only for Labour/National contests. Seats that ACT/Green won and all the Māori seats are excluded as party vote result just isn't a good enough predictor. 110
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 28/09/2026Big (and often requested!) new feature for The Progress Report has just dropped, you can now automatically estimate which seats will change hands in the MMP Calculator! theprogressreport.co.nz/mmp-calculat... #nzpol 1112
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 25/09/2026And you can also search the site to find any candidate, and if they're running Meta or Google ads, click through to see them, eg: theprogressreport.co.nz/candidates/1...theprogressreport.co.nzJessica Rowe - The Progress ReportJessica Rowe is a candidate in New Zealand's 2026 general election. See their party, electorate, social media links, and recent news coverage. 000
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 25/09/2026I found this via The Progress Report Ad Tracker, you can take a look here: theprogressreport.co.nz/ad-tracker/theprogressreport.co.nzNZ Political Ad Tracker - The Progress ReportTrack and analyse New Zealand political advertising spend across Meta and Google platforms with interactive filters for parties, advertisers, platforms, and electorates. 110
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 25/09/2026Jessica Rowe, National's new candidate for Kaipara ki Mahurangai, has launched a large & reasonably sophisticated social media paid ad campaign in the last 24 hours. She currently has 11 ads live, which appear to be targeting different parts of the electorate. www.facebook.com/ads/library/... #nzpolfacebook.com 110
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 23/09/2026Please enjoy this statement and questionnaire for a candidate for the upcoming Bendigo City Council By-election. 143
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 22/09/2026It looks like Ali Dahche, ACT's candidate for Botany in the coming election, still hasn't filed his expense and donations return for his unsuccessful council campaign last year voteauckland.co.nz/en/past-loca... #nzpolvoteauckland.co.nz 1102
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 22/09/2026They're a campaigning organisation, the more they raise the more they can spend pushing out their message. 110
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 22/09/2026And if you want to keep an eye on every email they put out to their list, bookmark this: theprogressreport.co.nz/emails/?part...theprogressreport.co.nzNZ Political Email Archive - The Progress ReportExplore political newsletters from New Zealand parties. Updated automatically and expanding historically. 152
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 22/09/2026If you want to have a look at Jordan Williams' email to the Taxpayer's Union list without subscribing, I have a copy here: theprogressreport.co.nz/emails/5487/ #nzpol #dirtyworktheprogressreport.co.nz 42210
Reposted by The Progress ReportSascha Stronach🏳️⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026okay this is actually huge. I've complained a lot about Labour being limp, so I think it's important to pump them up when they're actually making shit happen www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...rnz.co.nzLabour proposes splitting Foodstuffs and Woolworths from their wholesale armsLabour would force Foodstuffs and Woolworths to run their wholesale operations independently from their retail stores, if elected in November. 711735
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 20/09/2026National had three years to build a stronger start for our youngest learners: instead it cut funding, dropped its own commitments, and let standards slide. And now wants credit for a policy about iPads. 0125
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 20/09/2026While it rolls out lines about iPads, National's actual record is scrapping the 20 hours free ECE for two-year-olds it had already promised, cutting support funding by nearly 40%, and lifting the core subsidy just 2% in a year inflation ran at 4. #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...thepost.co.nzNational wants screen use ban in early childhood education, limit in primary schoolErica Stanford is also keen to introduce a school readiness check in ECE. 12717
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 19/09/2026Including a break down of spend per vote! 010
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 19/09/2026If you click on See Full Results for a contest where I've got all the donations and expenses in, you can now see a detailed breakdown of them. 100
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 19/09/2026New feature for The Progress Report: campaign finances! I've now got donation and expenses data for the 2023 and 2020 general elections and will gradually be backfilling with older and local elections. #nzpol 153
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 14/09/2026I've uploaded the latest The Post/Freshwater Strategy post to The Progress Report, so you can use the MMP Calculator to figure out exactly who would get into Parliament on these numbers. theprogressreport.co.nz/mmp-calculat... #nzpoltheprogressreport.co.nz 031
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 13/09/2026Yeah it's a lot of information to display on small screens, have tried a few other ways of doing it but still don't think I've cracked it 000
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 13/09/2026I've updated the ACT Party list in The Progress Report, so you can see who will get into Parliament via my MMP Calculator: theprogressreport.co.nz/mmp-calculat... #nzpoltheprogressreport.co.nz 176
Reposted by The Progress Reporthenry cooke @henrycooke.bsky.social · 17/08/2026NEW: 15k pensioners had their winter energy payment wrongly suspended this winter thanks to an error in a bill rushed through the House under urgency last year. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...thepost.co.nzWinter Energy Payments removed from 15k pensioners in rushed law blunderThousands of pensioners and veterans lost their Winter Energy Payment this winter after an error in a law passed under urgency last year, The Post can reveal today. 84425
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 14/08/2026Details from The Post: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...thepost.co.nzElection 2026: Another poll puts Opportunity in kingmaker positionThe poll obtained by The Post from Anacta/Talbot Mills, had Opportunity on 5.2%, crossing the threshold to get into the house. 000
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 14/08/2026I've uploaded the latest Talbot Mills poll, so you can use my MMP Calculator to see exactly who would get into Parliament on those numbers. #nzpol theprogressreport.co.nz/mmp-calculat... 130
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 12/08/2026Well that was fun. So when's the next National Party Leadership confidence vote? 183
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 11/08/2026FWIW the highest I've seen Erica Stanford in a preferred PM poll was 1.4% in Reid Research's March 2026 poll, has been trending down since then. #nzpol theprogressreport.co.nz/pm-poll-grap...theprogressreport.co.nz 071
Reposted by The Progress Reportlaragreaves.bsky.social @laragreaves.bsky.social · 07/08/2026We made an app! There is fairly widespread concern that turnout and enrolment will be low this election, so we made an app to help make enrolment and turnout data more accessible for communities. All data are drawn from the NZ Electoral Commission's website. turnout.inzight.co.nz 812377
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 07/08/2026btw is this what the makeup of Parliament looks like to me on based on Curia's results... (feel free to explore for yourself, here: theprogressreport.co.nz/mmp-calculat...) 200
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 07/08/2026The Taxpayer's Union own numbers show Labour gaining 2 seats - I get basically the same numbers. Not sure how RNZ could get that. 120
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 01/08/2026Oh so they're quite literally just selling your data. 010
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 01/08/2026Just did the whichparty.nz quiz - got "Social Democrat", 90% Labour Party which I think is probably pretty spot on. Cool site but only thing I don't like is they don't disclose who is behind it or if anything is being done with the data they're collecting. 140
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 01/08/2026Lastly, I'm genuinely surprised they're not active here on BlueSky. I'd imagine the audience here might be at least somewhat receptive to their message. 010
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 01/08/2026They've also dropped two candidates entirely: Kent Duston (Epsom) and Mathew Phillips (Taieri). I hope neither are for any unfortunate personal circumstances. 110
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 01/08/2026In doing so I noticed a few things. Firstly, they've got two electorate candidates who are not on their party list for some reason. They are Simon DellaBarca (Whangārei) and Cindie Uddstrom (West Coast-Tasman). 110
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 01/08/2026I've uploaded the full Opportunity Party (formerly TOP) 2026 party list to The Progress Report, so you can see who they will get into Parliament should they cross the 5% threshold or win an electorate. Explore for yourself with my MMP Calculator here: theprogressreport.co.nz/mmp-calculat... #nzpoltheprogressreport.co.nz 120
The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 22/07/2026Where will Stuart Nash bounce to next? NewZeal? 000