Is Green Party of Aotearoa left wing or right wing?

On economic organisation Green Party of Aotearoa scores −06 on a scale from −10 (common ownership) to +10 (private property and markets). On social and cultural order it scores −09. A single left–right figure combines these and four further measurements that move independently, which is why the atlas reports six.

Is Green Party of Aotearoa authoritarian?

On the organisation of power, which measures whether authority is dispersed among institutions that can stop each other or concentrated in a single centre, Green Party of Aotearoa scores −06. Co-leadership by gender, proportional representation, participatory policy development.

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Green Party of Aotearoa

1990– · New Zealand · Green · Electoral party · coding confidence medium

−06ECcollective

−09CUpluralist

−06AUpluralist

−01SClocal

−06IDuniversal

−04CHlawful

Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →

Core principles

Ecological limits, wealth taxation, Treaty partnership and social justice as a single package.

Economic model

Wealth and capital gains taxation, income guarantee, public housing, opposition to extraction.

Organisation of powers

Co-leadership by gender, proportional representation, participatory policy development.

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The evidence for every score

All six cells are sourced. A rationale explains what the score is measuring and each artefact is something a third party can check without taking anyone's word for it.

EC · Economic organisation · scored −06

Coded −6: wealth taxation and an income guarantee.

Programme textProgramme commitments to a wealth tax above two million dollars and a guaranteed minimum income.

CU · Social and cultural order · scored −09

Coded −9: social justice and Treaty partnership as founding commitments.

Programme textCo-leadership is required to include a woman, and Treaty partnership is written into the party constitution.

AU · Organisation of power · scored −06

Coded −6: participatory policy development and co-leadership.

Programme textPolicy is developed by member consensus and leadership is shared by gender.

SC · Scale of decision · scored −01

Coded −1: local action with binding international climate obligation.

Programme textProgramme commits to both community energy and to international treaty compliance.

ID · Rule of membership · scored −06

Coded −6: refugee quota increases and migrant rights.

Programme textProgramme commits to tripling the refugee quota.

CH · Method and tempo · scored −04

Coded −4: non-violence as a founding charter principle.

Programme textThe party is a signatory to the Global Greens Charter.

Nearest organisations by measured distance

Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.

Countries

New Zealand

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Scores are revised on evidence, so a citation should carry the version it refers to. Version 4.3.1 is current; the revision log records every change.

McGrath, K. (2026). Green Party of Aotearoa. The Political Atlas, version 4.2. https://thepoliticalatlas.com/organisations/nzgreen/ (accessed 2026-08-01).

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