How Te Pati MΔori win the 2026 Election
There is one move left for Te Pati MΔori to make in the Election Chess that would be a checkmate for the Left and would set up a Labour/Green/TPM Government that would make the real policy gains that Labour is too incremental to make.
Imagine if TPM actually adopted an MMP strategy for this election?
Labour refuse point blank to consider it and cut their noses off to spite their faces which is ridiculous because if this Hard Right Government with their anti-MΔori, anti-Treaty, anti-beneficiary, anti-worker, anti-renter and anti-environment agenda really is as bad as we all claim they are, Labour SHOULD be considering every possible means to beat them, including using MMP.
TPM continue to call out Labour for refusing to do this, so imagine the media attention and left wing voter joy if Te Pati MΔori actually walked the talk?
What if Te Pati MΔori call a press conference to argue that the need to ensure this is a one term Government is so real that they have done what Labour has refused to do, take the election seriously with an MMP strategy designed to ensure Winston is not Prime Minister for 12 months and this Government becomes a 1 termer.
Imagine if Te Pati MΔori were bold enough to push the following:
In the MΔori Electorates, Candidate vote Β Te Pati MΔori, Party vote Green!
Right now the Party vote means little to TPM because they will gain more electorates than Party vote, it’s effectively wasted, but if that MΔori Party vote was instead recycled to the Greens, it would not only generate an MMP overhang that makes it impossible for the right to get to 51%, it would also pump the Greens up by 2-3%!
So you could get TPM with 4 electorate seats and the Greens with 15%+ Party vote which would be enough to beat the Right.
No Political Party has ever asked for the Party vote to go to another political party as a specific tactic so the media attention at such a unique use of MMP would excite the electorate while demanding mainstream media attention.
MΔori in the MΔori Electorates are the most strategic voters in MMP, give them the tools to enact a strategy that could actually beat this terrible right wing Government.
This would be the way to do it.
This is why I have moved onto the Maori roll this election.I live in a National redneck electorate where they all vote NACT ,SO THERE IS A SNOW BALLS CHANCE IN HELL OF ANY CHANGE .How ever I can vote for change in the Maori seat .So it will be brown and green for me this time .
Good article, just needs a spell check.
I previously electoral voted tpm and party vote green, seemed logical.
Maori need to get themselves on the Maori roll.
I have always been on the Maori roll. More numbers in the Maori roll equals more seats.
TPM don’t need Labour’s approval to make this a “real MMP” election, so should just do it! I’m sure Greens wouldn’t complain. Whatever, NZ simply can’t risk another term under these lying, corrupt,conniving charlatans! Hipkins time to think outside the square!
Labour is a white man’s party I doubt if TPM want anything to do with them especially as Labour is trying to vote them out of existence.
TPM dont want any thing to do with any of the white mans parties Trev .
Trev that includes the party led by the two potatoe Maoris