The parties · 3 of 7, by current seats
Greens
At a glance
- Poll average (%)
- 15.2
- Readiness to 2050 /100
- 46 weak
- Voter priorities /100
- 44 weak
- Confidence it happens
- Low
- Fiscal detail
- Tax package
Current settings score 58 on Readiness to 2050 and 55 on Voter priorities. Confidence is shown beside the scores, never added to them.
Grouping scores
| Grouping | Readiness to 2050 /21 | Voter priorities /15 |
|---|---|---|
| Cost of living | 10 | 7 |
| Health | 8 | 6 |
| Economy and jobs | 9 | 6 |
| Housing | 9 | 6 |
| Crime and justice | 8 | 6 |
| Climate and energy | 14 | 10 |
| Education | 9 | 8 |
| Migration | 6 | 4 |
| Tax and retirement | 12 | 7 |
| Infrastructure | 8 | 6 |
| Te Tiriti | 11 | 7 |
| Defence and trade | 7 | 5 |
| Community and culture | 11 | 7 |
| Score | Cost of living | Health | Economy and jobs | Housing | Crime and justice | Climate and energy | Education | Migration | Tax and retirement | Infrastructure | Te Tiriti | Defence and trade | Community and culture |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Readiness to 2050 /21 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 12 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 11 |
| Voter priorities /15 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 7 |
Select a grouping for the rationale and sources behind each score.
Who
The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand. Its charter rests on Te Tiriti, ecological wisdom, social responsibility and non-violence.
The pitch
"Aotearoa has enough for all of us." Tax the very wealthy and large firms, cut income tax for 96% of people, and fund public services and public ownership.
Coalition stance and bottom lines
Wants "a change of Government" but names no partners and no bottom lines. Labour has ruled the Greens out of police and justice roles after candidates posed with gang members.
Five headline policies
- Taxes net wealth above $10m at 2.5% a year; taxes inheritances and gifts above $1m, with family homes and farms exempt
- Cuts income tax for everyone earning under $160,000
- Moves at least 120 supermarkets into public ownership as KiwiMart ($2.8b)
- Creates Kiwipower, a public company to firm renewable power ($980m over four years, funded by the wealth tax)
- Guarantees a job or training for long-term unemployed young people
Who gains / Who pays
| Who gains | Who pays |
|---|---|
| Earners under $160,000 | People with over $10m |
| Renters | Earners above $160,000 |
| Students and apprentices | Largest firms and banks |
On the long game
- Builds: climate, infrastructure
- Neutral: ageing, productivity
- Global risks with a concrete plan: 4 of 5 (Advanced AI going badly; Climate change and ecological breakdown; Great-power conflict, including nuclear war; Erosion of trust and governance)
- Governing for the long term: Four-year term: Plans · With other parties: Acknowledges · Institutions: Plans · Inheritance: Acknowledges
| Pressure | Effect | Would it last? |
|---|---|---|
| Ageing and the fiscal gap | Neutral | Unlikely |
| Productivity and incomes | Neutral | Unlikely |
| Climate and resilience | Builds | Unlikely |
| The infrastructure deficit | Builds | Unlikely |
| Risk | At home | With others |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced AI going badly | Plans | Plans |
| Climate change and ecological breakdown | Plans | Plans |
| Engineered pandemics | Acknowledges | Silent |
| Great-power conflict, including nuclear war | Plans | Plans |
| Erosion of trust and governance | Plans | Acknowledges |
Governing for the long term
Greens: governing for the long term
Rating on each count, Rated, never added to the scores. Rests on a stated value: long-term plans should survive a change of government.
Rated, never added to the scores. Rests on a stated value: long-term plans should survive a change of government. Greens: Four-year term Plans, Plans with other parties Acknowledges, Long-term institutions Plans, Honours what it inherits Acknowledges.
Sources for these ratings
- Term of Parliament (Enabling 4-year Term) Legislation Amendment Bill, bill page and first reading vote (117 to 6; Labour 34 and Greens 15 for) (5 March 2025)
- Wikipedia, Term of Parliament (Enabling 4-year Term) Legislation Amendment Bill, citing Hansard Vol. 780, 5 March 2025 ('Voting: Te Pāti Māori Votes'; National 49, Labour 34, Green 15, ACT 11, NZ First 8 for; Te Pāti Māori 6 against) (5 March 2025)
- ODT/RNZ, 30-year Infrastructure Plan gets widespread support in Parliament (Labour and Green forewords to the Government response) (16 June 2026)
- Engineering New Zealand, Infrastructure plan gains cross-party support (19 June 2026)
- Greens, Climate Action: Emissions Reduction (via Policy.nz) (13 August 2026)
- Greens, Green Party launches the transport plan to combat fossil fuel crisis (4 October 2026)
- Greens, Environmental Protection manifesto (repeal Fast-track; revoke new coal, gold and seabed mining consents) (13 August 2026)
- ODT, Greens pledge to revoke Otago fast-track mining projects (16 November 2025)
- Waatea News, RMA reform battle intensifies as Government and Greens clash over planning future (21 July 2026)
Watch for
The 2025 Green Budget, with different settings, is still linked. The party's own 2025 costings of free GP, dental, ECE and family tax credits come to $8.2b a year, five times its headroom. New taxes raise a net $5.1b (2027/28) rising to $5.7b (2030/31). KiwiMart has no stated funding, and the party rejects "arbitrary limits" on debt. Its today and 2050 scores are level at 43, the only party with no gap.
Party order is by seats in the current Parliament. 7 parties, the same template each.