Broadcasting Allocations

The Electoral Commission announced:

The Electoral Commission has released its decision on the allocation of funding to political parties for election advertising on radio, television and the for the 2020 General Election.

The funding (based on current seats, polls etc) is:

  1. $1,285,182 – National
  2. $1,202,267 – Labour
  3. $310,931 – NZ First, Greens
  4. $145,101 – , , TOP
  5. $62,186 – Advance NZ, ALCP, New Conservative
  6. $51,821 – Credit, Outdoors, Sustainable NZ, Vision NZ
  7. $41,457 – five unregistered parties

Personally I think it is time for the taxpayer funded allocations to end. They are a hangover from the days when was so powerful, parties were not allowed to purchase advertising space directly so they got given an allocation.