The risk under New Zealand's MMP system that a party winning more electorate seats than its party-vote entitlement creates overhang seats, shifting proportionality and parliamentary arithmetic, including debate over whether such outcomes can be deliberately engineered.
How the framings classify across 5 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.
Up to 12 framings across outlets and orientations — each a short phrase the extractor generated to characterise the piece's editorial angle (not a quote). Filter by lean to see how each bloc is spinning the story; click through to read the original.
a threat to coalition viability through seat gains
The calls on the right to ‘rort’ MMP by engineering a National Party overhangStacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.
How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.
How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 7 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.
Verbatim segments from politicians speaking on podcasts and radio shows about this topic. Sourced via the voice-reference library — each speaker has been confirmed manually from their voice clip. Click play to stream the original audio from the publisher, pre-seeked to the moment the quote starts.
Now that sounds sort of similar to what Teparty Māori is doing, but it's actually quite different. It takes advantage of a different quirk in MMP, it takes advantage of …
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