Some large donations
The Electoral Commission publishes details of large (over $30,000) donations to parties as they are disclosed. These are the seven large donors since 2012:
Donor | Amount | Party |
Colin Craig | $721,000.00 | Conservatives |
Brian Dalley (Estate) | $430,259.33 | Labour |
Laurence & Katrina Day | $100,000.00 | Conservatives |
Alan Gibbs | $100,000.00 | ACT |
Xiao Miao Fan | $53,602.65 | National |
Contue Jinwan Enterprise Group | $49,220.18 | National |
Graeme Douglas | $42,000.00 | National |
To put this is context, during the last three months of an election campaign a party that contests all 71 seats can spend up to $4,740,400. Of that $2,915,700 can be spent on party vote campaign and $1,824,700 on getting electorate candidates elected.