Is Te Pāti Māori left wing or right wing?

On economic organisation Te Pāti Māori scores −05 on a scale from −10 (common ownership) to +10 (private property and markets). On social and cultural order it scores −04. A single left–right figure combines these and four further measurements that move independently, which is why the atlas reports six.

Is Te Pāti Māori 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, Te Pāti Māori scores −04. Parallel Māori institutions with devolved authority alongside the national parliament.

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Te Pāti Māori

2004– · New Zealand · Indigenous · Electoral party · coding confidence medium

−05ECcollective

−04CUpluralist

−04AUpluralist

−08SClocal

+05IDascriptive

−01CHlawful

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

Tino rangatiratanga: Māori self-determination and constitutional recognition of the Treaty as a partnership between two authorities.

Economic model

Redistribution, iwi-based economic development, resource co-governance.

Organisation of powers

Parallel Māori institutions with devolved authority alongside the national parliament.

Reading note

An ascriptive membership rule attached to a decentralising and egalitarian programme — a configuration almost absent from European party systems.

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The evidence for every score

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EC · Economic organisation · scored −05

Coded −5: redistribution and iwi-based economic development.

Programme textProgramme commitments to a wealth tax and to Māori control of resource revenue.

CU · Social and cultural order · scored −04

Coded −4: indigenous cultural revival with socially progressive positions.

Programme textSupports te reo Māori as a core school subject and opposed the 2024 Treaty Principles Bill.

AU · Organisation of power · scored −04

Coded −4: parallel Māori institutions alongside parliament.

Programme textProgramme commits to a Māori parliament with authority over Māori affairs.

SC · Scale of decision · scored −08

Coded −8: parallel Māori authority alongside the national parliament.

Programme textProgramme commits to a Māori parliament and to constitutional transformation under the Matike Mai proposals.

ID · Rule of membership · scored +05

Coded +5: membership defined by whakapapa within a Treaty partnership frame.

Documented act or statuteThe party contests the reserved Māori electorates, for which enrolment requires Māori descent.

CH · Method and tempo · scored −01

Coded −1: parliamentary, with protest as a standing method.

Documented act or statuteLed the 2024 hīkoi against the Treaty Principles Bill, one of the largest marches in the country's history.

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.

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Cite this page

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). Te Pāti Māori. The Political Atlas, version 4.2. https://thepoliticalatlas.com/organisations/tepatimaori/ (accessed 2026-08-01).

Free to quote and reproduce with attribution. This is a synthesis rather than a peer-reviewed dataset — where an authoritative figure is needed, cite the Chapel Hill Expert Survey, the Manifesto Project or V-Dem.