π₯ Hot Air
Hot Air links every New Zealand MP to what they've actually said and how they've actually voted in Parliament β built from the official Hansard record, so you can look past the press release and see the voting history for yourself.
π₯ Hot topics β most recently active policies
π Where the parties stand β formal party votes over the last 6 years
Only counts formal party votes, not personal (conscience) votes, since there's no single party line on those. "Mixed" means the party has come down on both sides of the same policy within the last 6 years - e.g. voting for a bill, then later for its repeal.
- Reducing regulatory barriers for agricultural chemical and veterinary medicine approvals
- Replacing the Resource Management Act
- Youth justice military-style academies ("boot camps")
- Faster compulsory land acquisition for public works
- Free trade agreements
- Lowering tariffs
- Free trade agreement with India
- Reducing regulatory barriers for agricultural chemical and veterinary medicine approvals
- Replacing the Resource Management Act
- Youth justice military-style academies ("boot camps")
- Faster compulsory land acquisition for public works
- Police power to issue move-on orders for begging and rough sleeping
- Reducing regulatory barriers for agricultural chemical and veterinary medicine approvals
- Replacing the Resource Management Act
- Youth justice military-style academies ("boot camps")
- Faster compulsory land acquisition for public works
- Free trade agreements
- Lowering tariffs
- Free trade agreement with India
Party leaders β longest-serving first
The policy tags on each card show how that individual MP has actually voted, not their party's official position - on a party vote this usually lines up with the party line, but on a personal (conscience) vote it's that MP's own recorded choice.
π‘ About this data
Every record on this site comes from Hansard, Parliament's own official transcript. But there's no public API for it β Parliament doesn't publish one, and the data behind hansard.parliament.nz sits behind bot-detection that blocks ordinary automated access. Building this site meant working around that, one sitting day at a time, rather than simply asking Parliament for the data in a usable form.
The record itself has real gaps too. As of 3 November 2026, our dataset has 1 conscience votes with a final tally but no surviving record of which individual MPs voted which way β on matters MPs were explicitly trusted to decide as individuals, not on instruction from their party.
New Zealanders can't hold their MPs to account on a vote nobody can see. If you think Parliament's own voting record should be open, complete, and published as structured data anyone can use β not something a small project has to reverse-engineer β that's worth telling your MP, and worth Parliament hearing from its own members too.
π Open data
MP and party membership data from this site is also published in Popolo format, and vote data as Popolo Vote Events β an open standard for political data, rather than a one-off spreadsheet only this site can read. Find it, along with an explanation of the format, at github.com/Br3nda/nz-parl-data.