Greens voters sit well left of centre and back heavy taxes on the rich
More than everyone else in this survey, they also back legal protection for gender identity, and they reject capitalism as the best system so far. Scroll down to see where they sit and why, one step at a time. Part 1 is what Greens voters think, part 2 is how they choose a party, and part 3 is who they are.
This survey is not a poll. The people who took it are younger, more online and further left than New Zealand as a whole. A Greens voter here is a person who said they would vote for the Green Party if there was an election today.
The live compass has changed since this page was built. The party dots show the latest positions, but the hexagons, the ellipse and the step text can lag behind them.
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Part 1 of 3: What Greens voters think
Step 1 of 17
Most people in this survey sit left of centre
Each hexagon is a small area of the compass. A brighter hexagon holds more people. An area with only a few people stays empty.
The crosshair is the political centre. It is the average of the party dots, weighted by each party's share of the 2023 vote. About four in five of the 854 people sit left of it, so this survey leans left.
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Step 2 of 17
Greens voters spread out, but nearly all sit left of centre
260 of these people would vote Green today. Their hexagons now show in the Greens colour.
The ellipse holds about half of them (52%). It is wide, because Greens voters do not all answer the same way.
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Step 3 of 17
The Greens dot sits close to the Te Pāti Māori dot
The Greens dot is the average position of Greens voters.
The Te Pāti Māori dot is so close that more Greens voters sit nearest it (46%) than nearest the Greens dot (24%). This is common: a party dot is an average, and only 42% of Labour voters sit nearest the Labour dot.
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Step 4 of 17
What sets Greens voters apart
These are the statements where Greens voters take a clear side, few of them take the other side, and their average answer is furthest from everyone else's. Greens voters back heavy taxes on the rich (97% agree); back legal protection for gender identity (90% agree); reject capitalism as the best system so far (67% disagree); oppose cutting regulations and red tape for growth (75% disagree); and call the very rich selfish hoarders of wealth (93% agree).
On all five, they also go further than OPP and Labour voters, the two nearest parties with enough voters to compare.
Each arrow shows how far one of them moves the Greens dot away from everyone else's average.
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Step 5 of 17
No single statement puts Greens voters where they are
Start at the pale ring, where someone neutral on every statement sits, and add each statement's pull as one link, big ones first, with the ones that pull back fitted in along the way. The chain ends next to the Greens dot, at the average of the Greens voters in this survey.
The longest link, on marriage, makes less than a tenth of the chain. The thick links are the statements from step 4. Together they make only about an eighth of it, so many small pulls make the rest.
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Step 6 of 17
On the third axis, Greens voters lean only a little toward "more left on culture"
This axis compares a person's economic views with their culture views. Compared with most people, Greens voters' culture views are further left than their economic views. Their bar overlaps everyone else's a lot.
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Step 7 of 17
What Greens voters nearly all agree on
On these five statements, almost all Greens voters are on the same side. Each bar shows the share who disagree, are neutral or agree.
99% disagree that marriage can only be between a man and a woman. 97% disagree that public schools should instil religious values.
97% agree that we are not doing enough about climate change. The same share agree that primary school children should get free school lunches, and that the rich should be heavily taxed.
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Step 8 of 17
Greens voters split on immigrants' values and genetic modification
An average can hide a split. On these three statements, Greens voters are on both sides. Each bar shows the share who disagree, are neutral or agree.
39% agree that immigrants should adopt our values, and 42% disagree. 42% agree that genetic modification should have significant limits, and 37% disagree.
On government monitoring of online activity to guard against terrorism, half disagree (51%), but a third agree (32%).
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Step 9 of 17
More than half of Greens voters strongly disagree that New Zealand is on the right track
One question asks about the country today: is New Zealand on the right track? Each bar shows how a group answered, from strongly disagree on the left to strongly agree on the right.
92% of Greens voters disagree, and 53% disagree strongly. Everyone else mostly disagrees too (76%), but less strongly: 29% strongly disagree, and 10% agree.
Too few Greens voters agree to show each answer on its own, so the dashed part of their bar holds all three.
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Part 2 of 3: How Greens voters choose
Step 10 of 17
Two in three Greens voters also voted Green in 2023
Each ribbon is a group of people. The left side is how they voted in 2023, and the right side is how they would vote today. We draw only the ribbons into or out of the Greens.
65% of today's Greens voters also voted Green in 2023. Most of the rest voted Labour (11%), did not vote (11%) or voted OPP (9%).
Of the people who voted Green in 2023, 69% would vote Green again. 14% now pick OPP and 12% pick Labour.
Many more people here say they voted OPP in 2023 than the real result shows.
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Step 11 of 17
Nine in ten Greens voters also rank Labour in their top three
The survey asks people to rank their top three parties. 258 Greens voters did this, and 93% of them put the Greens first.
The pale bar is the share who put a party anywhere in their top three. The solid bar is the share for whom that party is the next choice after the Greens.
90% put Labour in their top three, and for 60% Labour is the next choice. Te Pāti Māori and OPP are each in the top three of 47%. Te Pāti Māori is the next choice for 21%, and OPP for 17%.
Very few rank National, NZ First or ACT.
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Step 12 of 17
Seven in ten people rank the Greens in their top three, about twice as many as would vote for them
This step turns the last one around. It asks who puts the Greens in their top three.
Each square is 1 in 100 people who ranked parties. 32 in 100 would vote for the Greens today. 70 in 100 put the Greens somewhere in their top three.
81% of Labour voters and 69% of OPP voters rank the Greens in their top three. Very few NZ First, ACT or National voters do.
This survey leans left, so 70% is far higher than New Zealand as a whole would give.
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Part 3 of 3: Who Greens voters are
Step 13 of 17
One in three Greens voters is a woman, against one in four of everyone else
Most people in this survey are men, in both groups. But 33% of Greens voters are women, against 25% of everyone else. 9% are gender diverse or prefer not to say, against 2%.
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Step 14 of 17
More than half of a small group of Māori respondents would vote Green
Only 36 people in this survey gave Māori as their main ethnicity. Of them, 56% would vote for the Greens today. Across everyone who gave an ethnicity, the share is 31%.
For the other ethnic groups here, the share is between 23% and 36%.
A group of 36 is small: one person moves the share by about three points. The line under each bar shows how far the share could be off. Ethnicity is not the same as being on the Māori roll.
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Step 15 of 17
More Greens voters earn under $40,000 a year
36% of Greens voters earn under $40,000 a year, against 26% of everyone else. In the bands above that, the gaps are small.
This largely reflects age and study: younger people and students often earn less, and the question asks about personal income.
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Step 16 of 17
More Greens voters rent
41% of Greens voters rent, against 28% of everyone else. Fewer of them own a home with a mortgage: 29%, against 36%.
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Step 17 of 17
Where do you sit?
Answer the same 60 statements and see where your own dot lands among the party dots. It takes about ten minutes.
The numbers behind the diagram
The same information as the diagram, as tables. Positions come from the live compass. Everything else is an average or a share for a whole group.
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How we did this
Your answer to a statement, times that statement's weight on each axis, moves your dot. The party dots come from the live compass. The rest uses the answers as of the date at the top.
A statement counts in step 4 if Greens voters lean clearly one way on average, at most a quarter of them take the other side, and their average is clearly further their way than everyone else's (by at least 0.4 of a standard deviation). Those where they also go further than the voters of both nearest parties come first, then those where they go further than one. The step always shows five: where fewer clear that bar, it takes the next ones over a lower bar and says so. Each arrow is the gap between the two groups' average answers, times the weights. The chain in step 5 uses the Greens averages alone.
Parts 2 and 3 use the survey's other questions: the 2023 vote, the ranked top three, the right-track question, gender, ethnicity, income and living situation. Part 3 shows only the breakdowns where Greens voters differ clearly from everyone else (a statistical test says the gap is unlikely to be chance), so pages for different parties show different ones. The lines on the bars in step 14 show where a share could be, given how many people it rests on (a 95% interval).
We publish only group averages, shares and counts of whole groups, and we hide a share that rests on too few people. Where too few people gave an answer, we show it together with the answer next to it, or in "Other", and we leave out a group that is too small to compare. A breakdown in part 3 has the same groups on every page, and we show it only where each of its groups has enough people.
The methodology page has the rest. Who votes Greens? has more on this group.
KiwiValues is an independent survey and does not support or oppose any party. Where a party sits here describes how its voters answered, not how anyone should vote.