Hello virgins, it's election time. The fifth general election will be held on Saturday 23 April 2022.

Timeline

The timeline for the election is as follows:

Thursday 14 April : Last business day

Saturday 16 April: Final votes posted, dissolution of Parliament

Friday 15 April, 00:00 am: Nominations open

Sunday 17 April, 11:59 pm: Nominations close

Tuesday 19 April, 00:00 am: Campaigning begins

Friday 22 April, 11:59 pm: Campaigning ends

Saturday 23 April: Polling day

TBD: Results

Candidate Submission

Candidates may stand on behalf of a party by being nominated by their leader, or may stand as independents by nominating themselves. Candidates nominated after the deadline may receive electoral penalties, and acceptance of the nomination is at the sole discretion of the Electoral Commission. No nominations will be accepted after campaigning begins. Candidate submission will be via a google form, which will provided when candidate submission opens.

Campaigning

All campaigning will take place on the r/ModelNZCampaigning subreddit. Posts outside of that subreddit will not count towards the calculation of the final score. Not even a little bit.

Campaign posts are separated into two categories, electorate posts and list posts. Electorate posts boost a candidate's vote share in the electorate the post is made, and list posts boost a candidate's party's vote share nationally on the party list.

As a reminder, campaign posts are scored based on both quality and effort. Quality, shorter campaign posts will be scored higher than lower quality, longer campaign posts.

When the campaign begins on the 19th April, only campaign posts made from that point on will impact a party's final result. Which is to say, press posts after that time will not count. If you post in the adjournment debate at any time before campaigning closes, you will get mods from that which will count towards the election.

Post Limits

List-only and electorate-only candidates may make a total of four posts during the campaign. Candidates standing for both the list and electorate may make a total of six posts during the campaign, these posts may be used in any combination of list and electorate posts. In addition party leaders may make 2 additional list posts.

You may make your posts at any point during the campaign.

Post Titles

The titles of campaign posts should start with

#GE6 

If you're making an electorate post, you need to include the name of the electorate, for example:

#GE6 [Northland] Ali gives a lecture to high school kids on the importance of not associating with Tongans and other such degenerates.

If you're making a list post, you need to mark it as such, for example:

#GE6 [List] Winston rolls a big pink tank through the University of Otago Campus

If you don't tag your posts properly, it will still be counted, it's mostly for searching later. But you'll make us sad, and that will certainly affect your mods.

There are no changes to post limits from the previous election.

Electorates

The electorate boundaries have not changed from the previous election. There are 6 electorates:

Northland (red)
Auckland (green)
Waikato (yellow)
Manawatū (blue)
Te Waipounamu
Rohe

The EC will provide a google map eventually but here is the electorate map from last time. Obviously Te Waiponami is the entire South Island, and Rohe is the Maori Electorate

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