Terms
A system where people choose their leaders by voting.
What is democracy?
The city where New Zealand Parliament is located.
What is Wellington?
The letters MMP stand for this.
What is Mixed Member Proportional?
This is a group of people who share political ideas and try to get elected.
What is a political party?
A party receives 25% of the party vote. Roughly what proportion of seats in Parliament should it receive under MMP?
What is about 25%?
The official process of choosing representatives by voting.
What is an election?
The name given to an elected member of Parliament.
What is an MP?
Under MMP, each voter gets this many votes
What is two?
The leader of the political party that forms the government usually holds this job.
What is Prime Minister?
A government in which one person has almost complete political power.
What is a dictatorship?
An area of New Zealand represented by an electorate MP.
What is an electorate?
This person's role is New Zealand's head of government.
Who is the Prime Minister?
This MMP vote largely determines how many seats each party gets in Parliament.
What is the party vote?
When two or more political parties work together to form a government, it is called this.
What is a coalition?
Environmental issues are a major focus of this NZ political party.
What is the Green Party?
A person who stands for election hoping to become an MP.
What is a candidate?
This is the main job of Parliament: debating and passing these.
What are laws?
A party normally needs at least this percentage of the party vote to receive list seats, unless it wins an electorate.
What is 5%?
Political parties that are not part of the government are collectively known as this.
What is the opposition?
This political party is associated with David Seymour.
What is ACT New Zealand?
MPs who win their local area are called these.
What are electorate MPs?
The three branches of government?
What are the legislative, executive, and judicial?
These MPs enter Parliament from a party's ranked list rather than by winning a local electorate.
What are list MPs?
These 3 political parties currently make up our government.
What are National, ACT, and NZ First?
This political party was founded by Winston Peters.
What is New Zealand First?