Where are you on this Political test?

[Gelgisith]

Unsurprisingly, I end up close to the green party, both on the graph, and with the bars.

GRN 83%
MNA 78%
MRI 69%
LAB 69%
UF 58%
NZF 45%
NP 41%
ACT 21%

[Aquesta]

NP 61%
UF 57%
ACT 51%
NZF 49%
LAB 46%
MRI 44%
MNA 30%
GRN 26%

[MERIZoC]

Not surprising.

MNA 83%
GRN 79%
LAB 63%
MRI 61%
NZF 48%
UF 48%
NP 35%
ACT 28%

[Atlanticatia]

Did anyone see the Greens just announced a rise in the top tax rate to 40% on income above $140,000, to pay for a child poverty reduction program? Good on them, in my opinion, the top tax rate in NZ is one of the lowest in the OECD, and is 14 per-cent below Australia's top tax rate, 12 per-cent below the UK's, and far below the US (although it varies from state-to-state: in Texas you'd pay 39.6% while in California you'd pay 52.9%)

[Sonharaland]

NP - 60%
ACT - 58%
UF - 51%
NZF - 47%
MRI - 45%
LAB - 38%
GRN - 24%
MNA - 19%

I know very little about New Zealand or its politics, so I can't say if the results were accurate or not.

[Kumuri]

I'm not sure what an "anti-smacking" law is, but if it's illegal to smack your gum in New Zealand, I must move there. Now.

nevermind looked it up
but still
chewing gum needs to die

[Alizeria]

I got National. Unweighted I was right where National are, while my weighted results put me near them but more on the socially conservative end of the spectrum.

I was, however, surprised that ACT were my second place given that I generally despise the ACT party.

Full results:
NP 64%
ACT 60%
NZF 54%
UF 53%
LAB 47%
MRI 44%
GRN 22%
MNA 22%

[Costa Fierro]

I ended up with United Future. Which was much amusement to my parents when the One News piece came up during dinner.

[Alizeria]

Did anyone see the Greens just announced a rise in the top tax rate to 40% on income above $140,000, to pay for a child poverty reduction program? Good on them, in my opinion, the top tax rate in NZ is one of the lowest in the OECD, and is 14 per-cent below Australia's top tax rate, 12 per-cent below the UK's, and far below the US (although it varies from state-to-state: in Texas you'd pay 39.6% while in California you'd pay 52.9%)

I'm not a fan of that policy, but New Zealanders I think fail to realise how lucky we are in terms of our tax burden. We have the second lowest tax burden in the OECD.

[Magna Libero]

I'm not sure what an "anti-smacking" law is, but if it's illegal to smack your gum in New Zealand, I must move there. Now.

nevermind looked it up
but still
chewing gum needs to die

Dude, go to Singapore if you have problems with chewing gum. They don't like chewing gum.

[Angleter]

I came between National and ACT on the graph, and I got 80% ACT, 68% National.

EDIT: Took it again, since it looks different. Got 81% ACT, 61% Conservative, 60% National, 58% United Future, 44% Labour and NZ First, 41% Maori, 21% Green, and 16% Mana.

[New Rogernomics]

Mana-Internet: Extreme left-wing to anti-globalist and anti-establishment party run by a criminal, a xenophobe and snake.

None of that is proven, in fact all the evidence would point to the extradition process floundering and never getting anywhere, at best for National Kim Dotcom might be fined. You could claim Hone Harawira as a Maori Nationalist, but he is hardly 'xenophobic'. But I am voting Internet-Mana this time, last time I voted NZ First, as it is fun to snub the establishment and get people elected that the media or Labour/National don't like. I would never vote Labour or National the local seat, unless I was in an electorate where that actually did something.

[Weedia]

Got spot on New Zealand First

[Pope Joan]

Here are my results.

This poll seems very fishy to me; slanted.

I told them I moved to NZ in 1888 since they had no "not NZ" option.

I should have said I was born in 2014, which was also an option.

Very weak poll design.

http://tvnz.co.nz/votecompass

[Antarctica Republic]

I tied with MRI and NP

[Unified Corea]

I'm in between Mana and the Greens.

[Margno]

Was this test, by any chance, funded by the green party?

[Skeckoa]

ACT 69%
UF 60%
MRI 55%
NP54%
CON 47%
LAB 41%
GRN35% NZF34%
MNA31%

Now if someone could go ahead and tell me what that means... That would be lovely.

[Geilinor]

ACT 69%
UF 60%
MRI 55%
NP54%
CON 47%
LAB 41%
GRN35% NZF34%
MNA31%

Now if someone could go ahead and tell me what that means... That would be lovely.

ACT = ACT New Zealand, libertarian, classical liberal party
United Future - centrist
Maori - all I know is pro-indigenous rights
National - center-right, conservative
Conservative - socially conservative, right-wing
Labour - social democratic, progressive
Green - environmentalist
New Zealand First - nationalist, anti-immigration
Mana - left-wing, socialist, pro-Maori, working with Internet Party

[Skeckoa]

snip

[Costa Fierro]

None of that is proven.

Kim Dotcom has been convicted previously for fraud before he moved here, Harawira has made blatantly racist comments and Harre is a snake pulled out of the political wilderness to lead a party purely because she used to lead left-wing parties before and has a history of having loose political loyalties.

You could claim Hone Harawira as a Maori Nationalist, but he is hardly 'xenophobic'.

Saying you would disown your own children because they came home with a white person is pretty damned xenophobic.

But I am voting Internet-Mana this time, last time I voted NZ First, as it is fun to snub the establishment and get people elected that the media or Labour/National don't like.

Winston isn't anti-establishment. He's also another racist, although the ire of his comments are Asians.

I would never vote Labour or National the local seat, unless I was in an electorate where that actually did something.

That's fine. You can vote for racists and criminals if you want.

[Costa Fierro]

ACT 69%
UF 60%
MRI 55%
NP54%
CON 47%
LAB 41%
GRN35% NZF34%
MNA31%

Now if someone could go ahead and tell me what that means... That would be lovely.

You are right wing. ACT is as close to a Libertarian party as NZ gets.

[Forsher]

Was this test, by any chance, funded by the green party?

No. If the comment is based on the poll in this thread you have to remember that: a) the vast majority of NSG is not NZ based, b) NSG is famously left wing, c) NSG is completely non-representative of NZ demographically and d) any other of a great number of reasons why it can't be considered applicable to NZ.

The poll exists is simply because this thread is envisioned both as a "Where are you on the political compass?" type sort of thing and a discussion of the issues involved more generally.

[Geilinor]

Mana-Internet: Extreme left-wing to anti-globalist and anti-establishment party run by a criminal, a xenophobe and snake.

You could claim Hone Harawira as a Maori Nationalist, but he is hardly 'xenophobic'.

If Harawira isn't xenophobic, why did he go off on a tirade about white people when accused of going to Paris when he should have been at a meeting in Brussels? http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/3037942/PM-Harawiras-white-tirade-deeply-offensive/

[Arkolon]

ACT - 79%
NP - 55%
UF - 53%
CON - 44%
MRI - 44%
LAB - 40%
NZF - 28%
GRN - 27%
MNA - 22%

In the compass I scored right in the middle of Social Progressive and Social Conservative, but to the furthest extent towards the right.