2018 party donations
The Electoral Commission has published the 2018 donation returns for political parties.
The returns only include donations over $1,500 so this doesn’t include the thousands or tens of thousands of party members that might donate $100 and can total over a million dollars. So it is an incomplete picture. But how much did each party get from donations over $1,500?
- National $741,915
- Greens $603,731
- Labour $173,343
- ACT $145,072
- NZ First $87,870 (plus loan of $76,622)
- TOP $87,843
- New Conservative $20,028
- Maori $2,000
And who were the largest individual disclosed donors (over $15,000):
- Greens: Betty Harris $350,280
- NZ First: NZ First Foundation $76,622 (loan)
- ACT: Christopher Reeve $60,000
- ACT: Dame Jenny Gibbs $56,000
- TOP: Gareth Morgan $50,000
- Labour: Robert Smellie $50,000
- Greens: Julie-Anne Genter $28,427
- Greens: James Shaw $28,387
- Greens: Eugenie Sage $28,257
- National: Graham Drummond $25,500
- National: RCL Henley Downs Ltd $25,000
- National: Owen Glenn $25,000
- Greens: Jan Logie $23,327
- Greens: Marama Davidson $20,548
- Greens: Gareth Hughes $20,028
- Greens: Philip Mills $20,000
- National: Anurag Rasela $19,909
- Labour: Jacinda Ardern $18,790
- Greens: Chloe Swarbrick $18,066
- Greens: Golriz Ghahraman $17,986
Once again NZ First are hiding their funders. Off memory in 20 years of electoral donation returns they have never ever disclosed the identity of a party donor (at least not in the original returns).