Photo / David Hall Margaret Murray-Benge says she has “no regrets” from being the biggest spender on her campaign in October’s Western Bay of Plenty District Council election. Among the 55 candidates, ...

Extreme weather-related events in early 2026 – including the fatal landslides in Mount Maunganui and Tauranga – have raised a logical question: will climate change and infrastructure resilience be big ...

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Following Danyl McLauchlan’s Five political tribes of Aotearoa feature (you can read it here), he looks back across 36 years of election data to find in New Zealand the same pattern visible across ...

Nigel Farage's party has announced its policy goals as ahead of the Holyrood poll on 7 May.

Andrew Lensen receives funding from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment and the Royal Society of New Zealand through contestable academic research funds. He is the co-director of ...

A High Court judge in Auckland has upheld a District Court ruling that voided the outcome of the 2025 local body election in ...

The Green Party has released its initial List of candidates for the 2026 election, which will now inform the final membership ...

Weeks before crucial parliamentary elections, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s campaign has characterised his main ...

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has taken another significant polling hit, as his ruling National Party scrambles to position itself ahead of a general election later this year.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports the Republican leader of the Wisconsin Senate is the latest in a “string of retirements” of prominent GOP lawmakers as rebalanced district maps begin to take ...