Welcome to The Progress Report 2.0 - a repository of tools and data for anyone interested in New Zealand politics.
This week we added 10 new emails from Chris Hipkins, Labour, David Farrar, Dr Ayesha Verrall, Labour, Duncan Webb MP, Jordan Williams, New Zealand First, Nicola Willis, Rob Salmond, Labour, Shane Jones and Tory Relf. The database now contains 2338 emails.
You can see them all here.
Posted on October 31, 2025
This week we added 8 new emails from ACTion, Casey Costello, Chris Hipkins, Labour, Duncan Webb MP, New Zealand First, Rt Hon Winston Peters and Tory Relf. The database now contains 2328 emails.
You can see them all here.
Posted on October 24, 2025
All final results from the 2025 New Zealand local government elections are now live in the database. These results cover contests across the country and include detailed candidate, office, and outcome data. You can search and find the results in our Politician Database.
The only councils not yet finalised are Kaipara District Council and Chatham Islands Council, both of which currently have outstanding recount requests. Their results have been updated but won't be marked as Final until recounts are confirmed.
The database now includes:
Work is also underway to backfill historical election data, starting with all individuals who are currently serving in elected positions, and then expanding to include previous elections and unsuccessful candidates.
This will eventually form a comprehensive record of New Zealand’s electoral landscape - connecting contests, results, and terms of service across multiple election cycles as well as news stories that mention the politicians.
Posted on October 20, 2025
This week we added 2 new emails from Casey Costello - NZ First MP and Hon Erica Stanford. The database now contains 2320 emails.
You can see them all here.
Posted on October 17, 2025
With the 2025 local government elections almost out of the way I'm pleased to let you know about some big updates to The Progress Report.
I've merged my central and local government candidate databases - so I now have a combined database with 4,700 NZ politicians. This includes everyone who stood in the 2025 local government election, as well as all candidates for the 2023, 2020 and 2017 general elections. I'm intending to gradually backfill with more historical data.
This means you can easily look at a record and see what other elections they've contested, and which other banners they've stood under. I've already found some really interesting examples.
To make it easier to find and use this data I've upgraded the search facilities on my Politician Database page - so you can now search by party/affiliation, election, body, office and even the outcome of the elections they stood in. Want to find everyone who was just elected unopposed to the Auckland Council? Easy!
And one last quality of life improvement, I've updated the search function so it works well with special characters. Now if you search for "Nandor" you'll find "Nándor Tanczos".
As always, feedback is more than welcome. Please get in touch if you've any suggestions, ideas or new data sources.
Posted on October 16, 2025