I think it’ll be interesting to see how it compares in the election year, but subjectively at least it’s seemed to me that Act and National have been making themselves far more visible out in public than other parties. Especially once you get out of the cities. I guess if you’re raising so much, you need to be spending it outside the controlled pre-election period, or you won’t be able to spend it.
Those 2022 numbers are pretty much the most National and Act have got ever (based on just scanning back through the years on the page I linked - so I may have missed some). I am very interested to see if it’s significantly larger this year.
I think it’ll be interesting to see how it compares in the election year, but subjectively at least it’s seemed to me that Act and National have been making themselves far more visible out in public than other parties. Especially once you get out of the cities. I guess if you’re raising so much, you need to be spending it outside the controlled pre-election period, or you won’t be able to spend it.
Those 2022 numbers are pretty much the most National and Act have got ever (based on just scanning back through the years on the page I linked - so I may have missed some). I am very interested to see if it’s significantly larger this year.