Sup Virgins, you know what time it is.

Note the following:

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The seventh general election will be held on Saturday 30 July 2022.

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Timeline

The timeline for the election is as follows. Note that all times are in NZST (GMT 12).

Thursday 21 July: Last business day
Friday 22 July, 00:00 am: Nominations and manifesto submission open
Saturday 23 July: Final votes posted, dissolution of Parliament
Sunday 24 July, 11:59 pm: Nominations close -- candidates will be posted shortly afterwards
Monday 25 July, 11:59 pm: Manifesto submissions close -- manifestos will be posted shortly afterwards Tuesday 26 July, 00:00 am: Campaigning begins
Friday 29 July, 11:59 pm: Campaigning ends
Saturday 30 July: 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.

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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 26 July, 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
All candidates may make a total of four posts during the campaign, to be used either for list or electorate campaigns. In addition to that, party leaders may make 2 additional list posts, which can be given to other party members. Endorsements submitted by party leaders do not count to the total of posts. You may make your posts at any point during the campaign.

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Post Titles

The titles of campaign posts should start with #GE7. If you're making an electorate post, you need to include the name of the electorate, for example:

#GE7 [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:

#GE7 [List] model-putrid gives a five-hour lecture on the superiority of broad gauge railways.

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 may (probably won't) effect your mods. Note that the post limits from last election have changed in two major ways -- candidates running for both the electorate and the list now have two less posts to make, and manifestos must be submitted before the deadline, not during the campaign.

Electorates

The electorate boundaries have not changed from the previous election. There are 6 electorates: Northland Auckland Waikato Manawatū Te Waipounamu Rohe Here is a [labeled map of the six electorates]

(https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/722021672617639970/967397197408763934/gevi.png). Please do note that Rohe is a Māori electorate.