Welcome to The Progress Report 2.0 - a repository of tools and data for anyone interested in New Zealand politics.
The first version of The Progress Report was a blog I ran up until 2014, with excellent contributions from James Caygill, Keir Leslie and other guest posters. If you're interested in any of that content, it has been archived by the National Library.
Following the closure of The Progress Report I built a new site, polled.co.nz to host some of the caucus calculators and other tools I had been working on.
This version of The Progress Report has been rebuilt from the ground up and should hopefully be far more flexible and robust. If you find any bugs or issues, or have any ideas for new data or features, please get in touch.
This week we added 5 new emails from ACTion, Christopher Luxon, Erica Stanford, New Zealand First and Tory Relf. The database now contains 2267 emails.
You can see them all here.
Posted on August 08, 2025
A new poll by Roy Morgan has been uploaded. The details are:
You can see all our polling data, including this poll, here.
Posted on August 05, 2025
I’ve just launched a new tool on The Progress Report that compiles candidate information from every local council election in Aotearoa into a single, searchable, filterable table.
Local elections in New Zealand are fragmented. That’s not by accident. Local elections in Aotearoa are mostly run by private providers, not the Electoral Commission. Each council publishes candidate information in different formats — sometimes PDFs, sometimes poorly structured web pages, sometimes behind click-through menus. The result? An information landscape that’s fragmented, inconsistent, and opaque.
This new feature brings it all together. You can:
I’ve done our best to standardise the data — including grouping all ACT candidates under “ACT Local” and excluding duplicates — but if you spot something that needs fixing or updating, we’d love to hear from you. Just drop a line to [email protected].
👉 Check out the Local Candidates Tool here
Posted on August 02, 2025
I've had a quick look at some of the data for nominations for the upcoming NZ local government elections, including party affiliation and number of nominations by council/ward.
Take a look in more detail at my thread on BlueSky.
Posted on August 01, 2025
This week we added 5 new emails from ACTion, Duncan Webb MP, Iain Lees-Galloway - TOP General Manager, Nicola Willis and Tory Relf. The database now contains 2262 emails.
You can see them all here.
Posted on August 01, 2025