Party Donations in 2024
The Electoral Commission has published the donation returns for 2024. The level of overall donations is:
- National $4.89 million
- Labour $1.63 million
- Greens $1.59 million
- ACT $1.46 million
- NZ First $758k
- TPM $54k
The breakdown by size is interesting.
| Up to $1,500 | $1,500 to $5,000 | Over $5,000 | |
| ACT | 50% | 9% | 40% |
| Greens | 53% | 5% | 42% |
| Labour | 69% | 3% | 28% |
| National | 43% | 24% | 33% |
| NZ First | 16% | 39% | 45% |
| TPM | 96% | 4% | 0% |
Only 33% of National’s donations come from those who donated over 5,000. 43% came from small dollar donors and 24% from medium level donors.
NZ First and the Greens are in fact the two parties that are most reliant on large donors.