The Electoral Commission has released the 2015 Party Donations and Loans returns, with National well on top and Labour lagging the Greens.
Total donations disclosed:
- National $1,400,895. 85
- Green Party $407,978.48
- Labour $279,134.18
- ACT Party $162,066.85
- NZ First $79,620.50
- Conservatives $39,460.00
- Maori Party $28.050.00
- ALCP (Cannabis Party) $1,492.00
- Internet Party $676.65
Mana, United Future, Ban 1080, NZ Independent Coalition and Democrats for Social Credit had nil returns.
The Internet Party has quickly gone from riches (when Kim Dotocm was piling money in) to rags.
This indicates that Labour are struggling to get donations, getting significantly less than the Greens and nothing from large donations.
Total donations over $15,000:
- National $214,152.68
- Greens $237,010.47
- ACT Party $74,378.25
Details and links to each party’s returns: 2015 PARTY DONATIONS AND LOANS RETURNS
Klik Bate
/ 5th May 2016….and guess they can’t be too choosy where they come from 😎
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=11633960
Kitty Catkin
/ 5th May 2016ALCP would do well to find a more memorable name. ALCP just doesn’t sound right for a political party, somehow. An acronym like ALP (Allow Cannabis Party) would make more impact. TOKE-The Official Kif Establishment ?
Kitty Catkin
/ 5th May 2016Decriminalise Recreationalyl Available Grass ?
Kitty Catkin
/ 5th May 2016Recreationally !
Zedd
/ 6th May 2016ALCP sounds just fine to I&I.. but using ‘Cannabis Party’ as a short version 🙂
Eliza M
/ 6th May 2016The Munch Bunch.
Kitty Catkin
/ 6th May 2016New Zealand Green.
Iceberg
/ 5th May 2016Far be it for me to put the boot in when they’re down, but Labour getting NO donations over 15k tells the story doesn’t it? Even their own MPs don’t believe in them anymore.
Hopefully Blaze will be on here shortly railing against all the big money going to the Greens. Corruption goddammit.
Pantsdownbrown
/ 5th May 2016Over half the Green party donations were from their own MP’s (all the one’s over $15k).
Kitty Catkin
/ 5th May 2016No ! Really ? How funny.
Labour supporters are a miserly lot-very mean !
David
/ 6th May 2016Labour supporters are simply far more sensible with their own money than they are with other peoples….
Kitty Catkin
/ 6th May 2016Well, that is their traditional way of doing this, really.
Hall
/ 5th May 2016Most of Nationals donations came from Chinese property speculators.
Pete George
/ 5th May 2016Can you point to details of this? You need to be able to back up claims like that.
Kitty Catkin
/ 5th May 2016Name five of these people. Or if you don’t want to do this in public, send them to Pete with proof and he can confirm that you did so and were right.
Nelly Smickers
/ 5th May 2016Hall’s not wong you know Kitty……..just see below
Pantsdownbrown
/ 6th May 2016Halls links below show nothing of the sort??
Hall
/ 5th May 2016http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/63963090/corrupt-chinese-could-be-making-political-donations–labour
Hall
/ 5th May 2016http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/tag/donghua_liu
Hall
/ 5th May 2016http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11619417
Joe Bloggs
/ 6th May 2016Still no evidence to back up your unsubstantiated claim that “Most of Nationals donations came from Chinese property speculators.”
Kitty Catkin
/ 6th May 2016That’s hardly surprising. How would Hall know ?
Kitty Catkin
/ 6th May 2016Anyone COULD have been; I COULD have been….but I wasn’t one of the major donors. Saying that X could have been is hardly evidence.
Hall
/ 6th May 2016Donghua Liu is a property speculator and donated 20k to the National party. That’s as good as any evidence right there.
Iceberg
/ 6th May 2016You said “most”.
24 hours and the whole of the internet at your disposal and you come up with one!
If you’re going to slag National and the Chinese in the same comment, give Phil Twyford a call for a better slogan.
alloytoo
/ 6th May 2016I’m not surprised Labour has been systematically alienating most everyone who could be a donor.
Crims deported from Oz are unlikely to vote, and even less likely to donate big chunks of change
Ratty
/ 6th May 2016What is it with ACT ?
Cant fill the correct lines in the correct spaces ?
Kitty Catkin
/ 6th May 2016What are you talking about ?
Zedd
/ 6th May 2016Just proves.. money does BUY elections.. just ask ‘The Donald’ 😀
Iceberg
/ 6th May 2016Cruz has spent nearly twice what The Donald has. Sanders has outspent Hillary by a few million and Trump by a factor of four.
Compare Trumps $50ish million so far with McDonalds $1.5Billion ad spend each year for some perspective.
Pantsdownbrown
/ 6th May 2016Facts aint really Zedd’s thing…..
Zedd
/ 6th May 2016ditto
OR are real facts.. embarrassing & painful to some ?
Iceberg
/ 6th May 2016“real facts”
Oarsome.
Zedd
/ 6th May 2016Real fact : “the matrix is all around you !” as is the deeeeep B-S spread by ‘Team Key’ ! 😀
Kitty Catkin
/ 6th May 2016Be fair, Icy; David Tua really said ‘Olson’ and it’s been proved-but he’s been a really, really good sport about being laughed at for what he supposedly said but didn’t. I see that he even has it on his number plate 😀
patupaiarehe
/ 6th May 2016@Zedd
“The Matrix is the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to hide you from the truth….”