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The WikiProject on New Zealand politics is a project to better organise information in articles related to the politics and governments of New Zealand at national, provincial (historic) and local levels of government. It is a sub-project of WikiProject New Zealand.

New Zealand politics articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 1 2 3
FL 1 1
A 1 1
GA 2 2 4 11 19
B 24 26 50 56 156
C 34 109 228 508 13 892
Start 37 441 1,882 27 2,387
Stub 34 1,489 8 1,531
List 1 16 65 262 1 345
Category 617 617
Disambig 7 7
File 21 21
Project 7 7
Redirect 41 41
Template 542 542
NA 1 2 1 4
Assessed 63 190 823 4,213 1,236 49 6,574
Total 63 190 823 4,213 1,236 49 6,574
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 25,196 Ω = 5.05

Scope

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The scope of the project is government and politics, both current and historical, from national to local level. It includes the legislative, elections, referenda, opinion polls, the public service, the judiciary and law. Regional, city and district councils are included. People such as MPs, activists and councillors are included. In other words, all articles that are in Category:Politics of New Zealand or any of its subcategories fall within the project scope.

Politics taskforce membership

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This user is a participant in WikiProject NZ politics.

To join the New Zealand politics taskforce, please place the following on your user page:

{{User WikiProject New Zealand/politics}}

To invite somebody else, please place the following template and instructions on their talk page:

{{User WikiProject New Zealand/politics|<Your user name> wants you to join '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/politics|WikiProject NZ politics]]'''.}}

To join the New Zealand politics taskforce, please place the following on your user page:<br/><nowiki>{{User WikiProject New Zealand/politics}}</nowiki> ~~~~

The relevant category shows the membership.

Tasks

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2023 New Zealand general election

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Infoboxes, parlboxes and succession boxes

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All MPs should eventually have Infoboxes, parlboxes and succession boxes. CatScan can be used to generate lists, and here are the links to regenerate the results, and counts at various points in time:

Group 4 Sep 2010 20 Jan 2011 16 Aug 2011 29 Sep 2011 22 Dec 2011 8 Feb 2012 12 Mar 2012 13 Apr 2012 26 Jun 2012 18 Aug 2012
All MPs recursive 1336 1368 1370 1368 1394 1394 1395 1396 1396 1391
Missing Infobox person/officeholder 978 988 980 974 969 958 954 952 947 940
Missing NZ parlbox 886 851 829 791 745 611 527 353 266 151
Missing succession boxes 1106 977 846 832 838 772 760 740 708 607

Parlboxes are all done.

Group 1 Dec 2012 6 May 2013 17 Jun 2015 8 Dec 2016
Missing Infobox person/officeholder 926 922 870 766
Missing succession boxes 567 419 341 315

As you can see, there's a fair chunk of work yet to be done, but there's certainly movement.

Assessment

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Assessment results in articles are included in the above table. Article class and politics importance are the aspects to be assessed:

  • Add{{WPNZ}} to the talk pages of articles that come under WikiProject New Zealand's scope.
  • Articles that come under this politics task force's scope should have |politics=yes included in the WPNZ template. Importance to this task force can be defined by including and filling in the politics-importance= parameter.
  • For example, for a start class article of low importance for WPNZ, but mid importance for the politics project, the full template entry would look like this: {{WPNZ|class=start|importance=low|politics=yes|politics-importance=mid}}. See WP:WikiProject New Zealand/Assessment for more information.
  • All existing articles should have had the |politics=yes added to them; we achieved this through a bot run in July 2010.
  • New articles created since need to have the parameters added manually.
  • If you find a category where the articles fall within the scope of this project, but the politics parameters are missing, please leave a note on the project talk page.

The above table updates itself about daily. It's done by a bot, so if you have just assessed an article, the table itself will not change immediately.

Categorisation

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The following category stubs can be added to stub articles:

Other stub types are also available.

Other tasks

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  • Party lists in New Zealand general elections

MPs for New Zealand electorates by location

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At present the category Category:Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives by electorate has subcategories for the South Island with further subcategories for Christchurch and Dunedin electorates, and subcategories for the North Island with a subcategory for Auckland electorates only.

  • Should the Auckland category be for the Auckland Region, not Auckland as at present? Probably not?
  • Should the Wellington category be for Wellington City only, or for Wellington Region (including the Hutt Valley, Kapiti and the Wairarapa?)
  • Probably Wellington (City) only; in which case there should be a third North Island subcategory of MPs for Hutt Valley electorates.

Are any further subcategories required for other North Island urban areas, e.g. Hamilton. Probably not, as there have only been two Hamilton electorates (Hamilton, then Hamilton East and Hamilton West)? Hugo999 (talk) 09:52, 9 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Review articles

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Mayors of New Zealand cities

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We should have lists of mayors for the cities in New Zealand, and eventually for the districts and regions. The following table shows that all the city articles have been done, though some may require additions or revision. The populations given are the Statistics New Zealand estimated resident population (June 2018).[1] A Template:Mayors in New Zealand is included under resources below.

Mayor of city Council population First proclaimed Ranking (size) Notes
Mayor of Auckland 1,570,100 2010 1
Mayor of North Shore City 1989 5
Mayor of Waitakere City 1989 6
Mayor of Auckland City 1871 2
Mayor of Manukau City 1965 4
Mayor of Hamilton 165,900 1936 8
Mayor of Tauranga 140,800 1963 10
Mayor of Napier 64,100 1950 13
Mayor of Palmerston North 87,300 1930 12
Mayor of Porirua 58,200 1965 15 mayor of Porirua
Mayor of Upper Hutt 45,300 1966 17 Upper Hutt mayors
Mayor of Lower Hutt 107,600 1941 11 History of Lower Hutt, History timeline
Mayor of Wellington 209,000 1870 7
Mayor of Nelson 52,400 1874 16 Nelson mayors up to 1903
Mayor of Christchurch 380,200 1868 3
Mayor of Dunedin 130,500 1865 9
Mayor of Invercargill 55,800 1930 14 mayors of Invercargill up to 1905

Timeline of achievements

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Some tasks have been completed. Below is a timeline of achievements:

  • Jan 2010 – all electorates have their own article
  • Jul 2010 – all politics articles have been identified through adding politics=yes to the WPNZ tag
  • Nov 2010 – all politics articles have been assessed for importance and class
  • Dec 2010 – all MPs have their own article
  • Mar 2012 – all cities now have a list article for their mayors
  • Dec 2012 – all MP articles have a parlbox
  • Dec 2012 – all nth Parliament articles have been published
  • Aug 2013 – all MLCs have their own article
  • Jan 2019 – all by-elections have their own article
  • Aug 2023 – all Wellington mayoral elections have their own article

Article alerts

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Note that you can watchlist these alerts: Redirects for discussion

Requested moves

Articles to be merged

Articles to be split

Governments

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Main article: Government of New Zealand

New Zealand ministries

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See List of New Zealand ministries.

Photos of current politicians

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For more on media of current politicians, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Content task force#Photos of Current Politicians.

Resources

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Wikipedia

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Terms of the
New Zealand Parliament
1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th
6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th
11th | 12th | 13th | 14th | 15th
16th | 17th | 18th | 19th | 20th
21st | 22nd | 23rd | 24th | 25th
26th | 27th | 28th | 29th | 30th
31st | 32nd | 33rd | 34th | 35th
36th | 37th | 38th | 39th | 40th
41st | 42nd | 43rd | 44th | 45th
46th | 47th | 48th | 49th | 50th
51st | 52nd | 53rd | 54th


Current Political Parties.

Parties no longer in existence. When working with parties, please refer to the page on colours and other meta attributes. And if you need to define a new party colour, there's a helpful page that has a whole bunch of different shades. If you need a hand with that work (it's a bit complex), leave a call for help on the talk page.

Mayors in New Zealand – note that all fields needed have been created, but most is commented out, as we would otherwise have a sea of redlinks.

Internet

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Books

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  • Bassett, Michael (1982). Three Party Politics in New Zealand 1911–1931. Auckland: Historical Publications. ISBN 0-86870-006-1.
  • Boston, Jonathan, Stephen Levine, Elizabeth McLeay, and Nigel S. Roberts, eds. New Zealand Under MMP: A New Politics? Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1996.
  • Boston, Jonathan, Stephen Levine, Elizabeth McLeay, and Nigel S. Roberts, eds. From Campaign to Coalition: New Zealand's First General Election Under Proportional Representation. Palmerston North: The Dunmore Press, 1997.
  • Clifton, Jane (2005). Political Animals: Confessions of a Parliamentary Zoologist. Auckland: Penguin Books. ISBN 9780143019640.
  • Espiner, Guyon; Watkin, Tim (2017). The 9th Floor - Conversations with five New Zealand Prime Ministers. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books. ISBN 9781988533223.
  • Lipson, Leslie (2011) [1948]. The Politics of Equality: New Zealand’s Adventures in Democracy. Wellington: Victoria University Press. ISBN 978-0-86473-646-8.
  • Hayward, Janine, Greaves, Lara, & Timperley, Claire: Government and Politics in Aotearoa and New Zealand (2021) (7th ed.). Oxford University Press.
  • McLeay, Elizabeth, ed. The 1990 General Election: Perspectives on Political Change in New Zealand. Wellington: Occasional Publication No.3, Department of Politics, Victoria University of Wellington, 1991.
  • McRobie, Alan (1989). New Zealand Electoral Atlas. Wellington: GP Books. ISBN 0-477-01384-8.
  • Martin, John E. (2004). The House: New Zealand's House of Representatives 1854-2004. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press. ISBN 9780864694638.
  • Miller, Raymond (2005). Party Politics in New Zealand. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195584134.
  • Milne, Robert Stephen (1966). Political Parties in New Zealand. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press. pp. 299–303.
  • Norton, Clifford (1988). New Zealand Parliamentary Election Results 1946–1987: Occasional Publications No 1, Department of Political Science. Wellington: Victoria University of Wellington. ISBN 0-475-11200-8.
  • Palmer, Geoffrey (1992). New Zealand's Constitution in Crisis. Dunedin: McIndoe. ISBN 9780868681474.
  • Siegfried, Andre. Democracy in New Zealand. Translated by E. V. Burns. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1982 [1914].
  • Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
  • Wolfe, Richard (2005). Battlers Bluffers and Bully-boys: How New Zealand's Prime Ministers Have Shaped Our Nation. Random House, New Zealand. ISBN 1-86941-715-1.

Labour

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National

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Liberal

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Reform

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  • Bassett, Michael (1995). Coates of Kaipara. Auckland: Auckland University Press. ISBN 1-86940-117-4.
  • Stewart, William Downie (1937). The Right Honourable Sir Francis H.D. Bell, P.C., G.C.M.G., K.C. : his life and times. Wellington, [N.Z.]: Butterworth.
  • Farland, Bruce (2009). Farmer Bill: William Ferguson Massey & the Reform Party. Wellington: First Edition Publishers.
  • Farland, Bruce (1995). Coates' tale: war hero, politician, statesman, Joseph Gordon Coates, Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1925–1928. Wellington, [N.Z.]: B. Farland. ISBN 0-473-03182-5.
  • Scholefield, Guy H. (1925). The Right Honourable William Ferguson Massey, M.P., P.C., Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1912–1925: a personal biography. Wellington, [N.Z.]: Harry H. Tombs.
  • Watson, James, and Lachy Paterson, eds. A Great New Zealand Prime Minister? Reappraising William Ferguson Massey (2010), essays by scholars

Greens

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  • Browning, Clare (2012). Beyond today : a Values story. Wellington. ISBN 978-0-47320-955-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Chamberlain, Jenny (2017). Constant radical : the life and times of Sue Bradford. Masterton, New Zealand: Fraser Books. ISBN 9780994136008.
  • Hughes, Gareth (2022). A gentle radical : The life of Jeanette Fitzsimons. Auckland: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 9781988547831.

NZ First

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  • Hames, Martin (1995). Winston First: The Unauthorised Account of Winston Peters' Career. Auckland: Random House. ISBN 1869412575.
  • Wishart, Ian (2014). Winston: the story of a political phenomena. Auckland. ISBN 978-0994106414.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

Social Credit

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Articles

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  • Boston, Jonathan, Stephen Church, and Hilary Pearse. "Explaining the Demise of the National-New Zealand First Coalition." Australian Journal of Political Science 39, no. 3 (2004): 585-603.
  • James, Colin. "Comment: Ten Prime Ministers." Political Science 56, no. 2 (2004): 5–10.

Compare to

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A number of other countries have similar articles to which we can compare to.

  1. ^ "Subnational Population Estimates: At 30 June 2019". Statistics New Zealand. 22 October 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2020. For urban areas, "Subnational population estimates (UA, AU), by age and sex, at 30 June 1996, 2001, 2006–18 (2017 boundaries)". Statistics New Zealand. 23 October 2018. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
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