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NZ First, display of banners in Tauranga
Monday, 30 June 2008, 10:02 am | Electoral Commission
Banners on a house in Tauranga promoting New Zealand First did not display promoter statements. The offence will be reported to the Police. More >>
Green Party, three posters in Morningside
Monday, 30 June 2008, 10:01 am | Electoral Commission
Posters posted on a fence in Auckland promoting the Green Party did not display promoter statements. The posters were authorised by the financial agent of the Green Party and in their original form all contained promoter statements. No offence committed ... More >>
National Party, pamphlet
Monday, 30 June 2008, 10:00 am | Electoral Commission
National Party flyer titled “Join the conversation” does not contain a promoter statement. No contravention of the Electoral Finance Act 2007 as the flyer is not an election advertisement within the meaning of section 5 of the Act. More >>
Greens, billboard non-compliant promoter statement
Monday, 30 June 2008, 9:58 am | Electoral Commission
The promoter statement on a billboard in Wellington promoting the Green Party did not contain the correct address but the offence is so inconsequential to the public interest that the matter will not be reported to the Police. More >>
Electoral Commission broadcasting allocation
Tuesday, 3 June 2008, 4:37 pm | Electoral Commission
Allocation decision Parties
Registrations, consideration of late returns
Tuesday, 20 May 2008, 1:10 pm | Electoral Commission
At its meeting of 19 May 2008, the commission made the following decisions: Further information is being sought before any decision is made about referral to the police of parties that were late with their donation returns. More >>
ACT & NZF donation returns
Friday, 16 May 2008, 10:50 am | Electoral Commission
Duly completed donation returns and accompanying auditors reports were received today from ACT New Zealand (One anon donation of $16,000) and New Zealand First (Nil). More >>
Decision - Application to list EPMU as third party
Friday, 4 April 2008, 3:02 pm | Electoral Commission
At its meeting on 2 April the Electoral Commission considered the application from Andrew Little to list the Engineering, Printing & Manufacturing Union (EPMU) as a third party and the objection to such a listing from David Farrar. More >>
Electoral Commission decisions
Thursday, 3 April 2008, 9:44 am | Electoral Commission
...The commission considered whether two different pamphlets produced by separate parties were election advertisements encouraging people to vote in a particular way and so required promoter statements. It determined that one was and one was not. More >>
The Kiwi Party - Application to register
Friday, 25 January 2008, 1:03 pm | Electoral Commission
The Electoral Commission is considering an application made under Part 4 of the Electoral Act 1993 to register The Kiwi Party. More >>
Building interest in politics key to voter turnout
Wednesday, 21 November 2007, 12:42 am | Electoral Commission
The Electoral Commission says its latest survey shows those involved in politics need to make it more interesting to average and young New Zealand if more are to vote in elections, and MPs in particular need to do more to explain what their job ... More >>
Political party donations 2005 available
Wednesday, 3 May 2006, 2:29 pm | Electoral Commission
Political party donations 2005 - data now available on the Elections New Zealand website http://www.elections.org.nz/donations.html More >>
National Front logo registered with Electoral Comm
Friday, 10 February 2006, 8:37 am | Electoral Commission
The Electoral Commission has today (9 February 2006) registered the logo of the New Zealand National Front, an unregistered political party. More >>
Party election expense returns
Thursday, 9 February 2006, 6:02 pm | Electoral Commission
The Electoral Commission is referring the New Zealand Labour Party to the police as it believes the party has overspent its election expense limit and committed an offence under the Electoral Act. (See sections 214B and 224.) More >>
Suffrage Day, record number of women MPs
Monday, 19 September 2005, 12:36 am | Electoral Commission
New Zealand celebrates Suffrage Day today (19 September) with women making up a third of its new parliament – the highest proportion ever. More >>
Election advertising funds re-jigged
Friday, 26 August 2005, 5:09 pm | Electoral Commission
Minor parties have received a small boost in their broadcast election advertising allocation from the Electoral Commission with the redistribution of funds previously allocated to parties which have since failed to register and nominate party lists ... More >>
Commission party and logo registration decisions
Monday, 18 July 2005, 10:30 am | Electoral Commission
The Electoral Commission, on 15 July 2005, made the following decisions: The Republic of New Zealand Party (abbreviation RONZP) was registered, along with its party logo. Jim Anderton’s Progressive was approved as the new name of the registered political ... More >>
Not enough voters clear on MMP essentials
Thursday, 30 June 2005, 3:23 pm | Electoral Commission
Despite the majority thinking MMP is easy to understand, less than a fifth of potential voters in the looming general election can correctly recall two critical pieces of MMP knowledge. The Electoral Commission believes the missing understanding is essential ... More >>
$30,000 election teaching awards announced
Monday, 20 June 2005, 6:07 pm | Electoral Commission
The Electoral Commission has launched teaching awards backed by a $30,000 prize pool for teachers making use of the general election as the basis of classroom study. More >>
Party and logo registration decisions announced
Tuesday, 17 May 2005, 9:57 am | Electoral Commission
WIN Party, allowing it to contest the party vote at a general election a party logo for 99 MP Party a substitute logo for The New Zealand National Party. More >>
