What's live, what's coming, and what we're exploring for the 2026 NZ election cycle.
Automated ingestion from NZ Herald, RNZ, Stuff, Newsroom, The Post, and other major outlets.
Real-time sentiment analysis from NZ political discussion on Bluesky.
Structured poll results scraped from Wikipedia's NZ opinion polling tables.
Ingest posts and comments from r/newzealand and r/nzpolitics for broader sentiment coverage.
Track NZ political accounts and hashtags for real-time discourse analysis.
Direct ingestion of official press releases from all registered NZ political parties.
Hansard transcripts and select committee submissions for policy tracking.
Observational layer surfacing speculative odds from platforms like Polymarket and PredictIt — kept separate from polling-based models.
NLP-based sentiment scoring of ingested content, broken down by party and topic.
Recency-weighted polling averages with 14-day exponential decay half-life across all recent polls.
Full NZ election party vote results (2017, 2020, 2023) for trend analysis and model backtesting.
Probabilistic seat projections using 10K Monte Carlo iterations on logit-scale with Sainte-Laguë allocation per iteration.
Single numeric party health score (−100 to +100) combining recency-weighted sentiment and media volume over a rolling 7-day window.
Model likely coalition combinations with probability scores based on polling and seat simulations.
Leaflet-powered map with per-electorate results, candidate info, and demographic overlays.
Live countdown to election day with days, hours, minutes, and seconds.
Opt-in browser notifications via service worker for poll releases, major news, and sentiment shifts.
Weekly or daily email summaries of polling changes, top stories, and forecast shifts.
Embeddable widgets for media partners to display live polling data on their sites.
User-selectable light, dark, and system theme with persistent localStorage preference.