Results of Questionnaire of Political Parties

Environment and Conservation Organisations of New Zealand (ECO), the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society ( Forest and Bird) and Greenpeace New Zealand have launched the Vote for the Environment’s rating of political parties’ environment and conservation policies ahead of the elections as we do each election.

The groups have released a wallet-sized card that rates the political parties across 12 environment and conservation issues that are important to New Zealanders. They asked the parties a total of 59 questions. The parties scored the following:

Act:                10%
Green:            97%
Labour:           61%
Maori:              83%
National:         43%
NZ First:          50%
Progressive:    81%
United Future: 48%

the results in table form are available:
as a word file (192kb)
final scores (55kb)
wallet card (pdf 446kb)

Graphs ranking the parties are below or can be downloaded here: click on graph for larger image.