When New Zealanders go to the polls on 7 November, they will be spoilt for choice. In the main, there are two larger (Labour and National) and five smaller parties (ACT, Greens, NZ First, Opportunity, Te Pāti Māori). Each has its own ideas about a cure for the country’s finances, its hospitals, power supply, education system and so on.

Of course, this being a democracy, these ideas diverge wildly, and some are incompatible. Yet under MMP, the proportional electoral system chosen in 1993, several parties will end up in coalition with each other.

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