Decision of the Electoral Commission - Te Kaitiaki Take Kowhiri, on allocation of time and money to political parties for broadcasting of election programmes - 2005 General Election.
Final allocation - 24 August 2005
A number of parties that were given an allocation of money in the original decision did not submit a party list and therefore will not receive any broadcast allocation. The Electoral Commission has reallocated this money as follows:
|
Party |
Original allocation |
Addition from re-allocation |
Total final allocation |
|---|---|---|---|
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All values include GST |
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Labour Party |
1,100,000 |
1,100,000 |
|
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National Party |
900,000 |
900,000 |
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ACT, Green Party, NZ First, UNITED FUTURE |
200,000 |
6,607 |
206,607 |
|
Maori Party |
125,000 |
4,129 |
129,129 |
|
Progressive |
75,000 |
2,478 |
77,478 |
|
Alliance, Christian Heritage NZ, Destiny NZ, Libertarianz |
20,000 |
661 |
20,661 |
|
99 MP Party, Democrats , New Zealand F.R.P.P., The Republic of New Zealand Party |
10,000 |
330 |
10,330 |
The parties that are not contesting the party vote are: Beneficiaries Party, National Front, Patriot Party, Republic Aotearoa New Zealand Party, New Zealand Equal Values Party
Explanation
In making this re-allocation decision, the reasoning of the commissioners was that:
- In the original allocation the decision was that $2 million be allocated to the two largest parties. As this decision would have been the same regardless of the number of other parties, there was not an argument to re-allocate money to Labour or National
- The remainder of the money had then been distributed between the other parties and thus all were affected by the number of parties receiving allocation. Therefore the money was to be distributed to all of these parties, pro-rata from the original decision.
Interim allocation - 15 April 2005
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Number of parties
|
$ (GST inc)
|
Minutes |
Main(not only) criteria distinguishing this group from the group below |
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Open |
Close |
MPs |
'02 vote |
Polls |
Membership |
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Available for allocation |
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3,212,000 |
72 |
30 |
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Labour Party |
1 |
1,100,000 |
12 |
6 |
 |
|
|
|
|
|
National Party |
1 |
900,000 |
12 |
6 |
|
|
|
|
|
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ACT, Green Party, NZ First, UNITED FUTURE |
4 |
200,000 |
7 |
3 |
|
|
|
|
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Maori Party |
1 |
125,000 |
4 |
3 |
|
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|
|
|
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Progressive |
1 |
75,000 |
4 |
3 |
|
|
|
|
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Alliance, Christian Heritage NZ, Destiny NZ, Libertarianz |
4 |
20,000 |
1 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
|
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99 MP Party, Beneficiaries Party, Democrats , National Front, New Zealand F.R.P.P., Patriot Party, Republic Aotearoa New Zealand Party, The Republic of New Zealand (of these only Democrats, New Zealand F.R.P.P and 99 MP Party are currently registered) |
8 |
10,000 |
1 |
0 |
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