2011 Party Donation returns
The 2011 party donation returns are now online. This is the first time that the returns have not just included details of individual donations over the disclosure limit – but also summary information on their total level of income from donations. This gives us a fuller picture of their revenues.
I’ve broken down for the major parties, their donations by size:
| $1.5 – $5k | $5 – $15k | >$15k | |
| ACT | 10% | 46% | 38% |
| NZF | 4% | 40% | 0% |
| Labour | 29% | 46% | 24% |
| Greens | 40% | 23% | 37% |
| National | 24% | 41% | 27% |
National and Labour have similar profiles (but National got 2.5 times as much). Note that these figures do not include the income from donations below $1,500 and membership fees etc. For National that can be greater than a million dollars a year.
Significant Donors are (those over $30,000 were declared last year):
ACT
- Louis Crimp $125,520
- Alan Gibbs $116,000
- John Boscawen $79,468
- John Banks 75,980 (includes through a company)
- Don Brash $25,980
- John Harrison $25,025
- Fletcher Building $20,000
- Talleys $20,000
Maori
- Bruce Piested $25,000
- Fletcher Construction $20,000
Labour
- Todd Corp $50,000
- EPMU $40,000
- Cao Jun $30,000
- Dairy Workers Union $27,200
- Road Transport Trust $20,000
- Fletcher Building $20,000
- SFWU $20,000
- Meatworkers Union $18,000
Greens
- Fletcher Building $20,000
- Seven Green MPs – $15,000 to $17,500 each
- Christoper Marshall $16,500
- Bryan Forde $15,200
- Forbes Elworthy $15,035
National
- Susan Chou $100,000
- Gallagher Group $86,005
- Antoines Restaurant $60,000
- Oravida 56,600
- Chris Parkin $55,000
- Todd Corp $50,000
- Citi Financial Group $50,000
- Team McMillan $35,000
- Graeme Douglas $30,000
- Road Transport Trust $30,000
- Garth Barfoot $22,000
- Contue Jinwan Enterprise Group $21,600
- The 123 Mart Ltd $20,000
- Fletcher Building $20,000
- Xiao Miao Fan $19,413
- Janette Brocklehurst $16,685
- Grant Biel $15,500
- Yaxun Zhang $15,113