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RNZ is tracking the money flowing to the parties this election year and where it is coming from.
Here's where things stand.
I see ACT is doing well. They need a ton of money because they have hardly any volunteers and their policies are hard to sell.
There tends to be a ton of fundraising activity closer to the election. The people-supported parties will bring in more, then.
This kind of goes along with Gary's ideas that wealthy people support far right groups to protect their assets. I always give $10 or $20 to the ones I support. It's mostly so they can say they got donations from X number of people.
I just finished his book, btw. Thanks for the recommendation.
Isn't that just a graph showing levels of corruption?
The amont of people ive heard giving labour shit for political donations and theyre almost getting the same with 5x less voter share. Someone out there is feeding them bad info.
Opportunity getting more donations than Green is pretty surprising.
Although, I think a lot of people are pretty disappointed by the bad press their candidates have been getting.
2/3 of Opportunity donations came from two people. Plus, this is only the large donations. Left wing parties tend to get a decent proportion of their donations from many small donors. Right wing parties tend to get the large single donations.
From their announcement; during their "match may" campaign which matched your donation with an equal donation from a big donor; they got around $220k from ~1500 donors, when matched was $440k.
They are not doing too bad on the money side, and it shows, they have more advertising and presence around the place.
