Te Pāti Māori have made their election strategy clear: give us your candidate vote to get more Māori in Parliament, and give your party vote to the left bloc.
Campaigning for the electorate vote only is an interesting strategy, I wonder how well it will work?
I don’t know if TPM has ever gotten over 5%; but their electorate seats always put them in parliament.
Maori voters are often considered “strategic” voters; which just means different party/candidate votes; as a bloc. So it just seems that they are “formalizing” the existing common practice their voters are known for.
Opportunity is doing the opposite; asking only for party vote (except in Mt Albert, for Quilae) as they recognise that their voters are spread fairly evenly across the country; but no one area has enough concentration to win a seat.
Yep.
I don’t know if TPM has ever gotten over 5%; but their electorate seats always put them in parliament.
Maori voters are often considered “strategic” voters; which just means different party/candidate votes; as a bloc. So it just seems that they are “formalizing” the existing common practice their voters are known for.
Opportunity is doing the opposite; asking only for party vote (except in Mt Albert, for Quilae) as they recognise that their voters are spread fairly evenly across the country; but no one area has enough concentration to win a seat.