Election Schedule

6th July 2018 12pm: Preliminary party lists and final electorate candidates due.
7th - 13th July 2018: Campaign period.
14th July 2018 10am: Final party lists due.
14th July 2018 12am: Election results announced.
NB: all times are NZST.

Post Limits

Electorate-only candidates have two electorate posts each day, which they must use in the electorate in which they are standing.

List-only candidates have two list posts each day, which have no restrictions on location.

Electorate and list candidates (i.e. candidates standing in an electorate who are also on the party list) have one electorate-only post, one list-only posts and then a third post which may be used for either.

Two members from each party (ordinarily the Leader and Deputy Leader) have two additional list posts. They may use these themselves or give them to any other member of their party (including electorate-only candidates).

Flairs

The flairs ought to be fairly obvious but an explanation never goes amiss. You should flair all of your posts. Electorate posts should be flaired with their name. List posts simply should be flaired as "List". You can also flair your campaign launches and manifestos as "Launch" and "Manifesto" but note that they still count as list posts.

Post Types

There is no official list of post types, since that would make things too easy for you. For the purpose of calculating campaign modifiers, posts are sorted into categories such as "hoarding" or "radio interview". These different types are worth different amounts but most importantly, repeated use of them is less effective. If on the first day of campaigning, you launch a nationwide billboard campaign, that's going to get you some good mods, but your second and third billboard campaigns the day after are going to have a negligible effect. Your campaigning will be most effective if you can produce a variety of different types of posts.

Quality

Every election people ask for quality to play a more important part. I would like to stress that quality already plays a significant part in campaign modifiers. It is not unreasonable that a single high quality post is worth three or four times that of a low quality post.

Leaders' Debate

There will be a leader's debate, just as soon as we find a time for it.