Broadcasting Allocations
The Electoral Commission announced:
The Electoral Commission has released its decision on the allocation of funding to political parties for election advertising on radio, television and the internet for the 2020 General Election.
The funding (based on current seats, polls etc) is:
- $1,285,182 – National
- $1,202,267 – Labour
- $310,931 – NZ First, Greens
- $145,101 – ACT, Maori Party, TOP
- $62,186 – Advance NZ, ALCP, New Conservative
- $51,821 – Social Credit, Outdoors, Sustainable NZ, Vision NZ
- $41,457 – five unregistered parties
Personally I think it is time for the taxpayer funded allocations to end. They are a hangover from the days when broadcasting was so powerful, parties were not allowed to purchase advertising space directly so they got given an allocation.