The Te Tai Tonga electorate representation debate for the 2026 election, including independent candidacy of expelled MP Tākuta Ferris and Te Pāti Māori's candidate selection.
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.
vast and diverse regional coverage
#election2026: Tākuta Ferris Bets His Political Future on Te Tai Tonga as an Independentkey contest for māori representation
#election2026: Te Pāti Māori Names Murihiku Educator for Te Tai Tonga BattleStacked 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. 3 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.
Social-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →
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