Have your say

The Electoral Commission welcomes and invites any person or group to make a submission on the MMP voting system.

There is no particular form that you need to use and there are a number of ways you can do this. You can make a submission online, by email or in written form. You can also present your submission at a public hearing.

You do not have to respond to all the issues under review. There might be other things you would like to comment on about how the MMP voting system works. Please include these in your submission.

If you want to raise other issues, please bear in mind there are two things the Commission cannot consider—these are the Māori seats and the number of members of Parliament. This means that if you include them, the Commission will not be able to consider this part of your submission.

There are a couple of other things to note. The review is not about whether we should keep MMP as the voting system. This question was decided at the referendum. This means that if you make a submission recommending we change to a different voting system, the Commission will have to disregard this part of your submission.

The purpose of the review is to improve MMP. It is not about wider electoral issues such as the term of Parliament, election campaigning and political party funding, the broadcasting rules, or electronic voting.

As a guide on whether your issue falls into the ‘wider electoral issues’ category, ask yourself "Is this issue directly related to how the MMP voting system works?" If no, then it is probably outside the scope of the review.

Disclaimer: Please note the views and opinions expressed in the submissions on the review of MMP are the views and opinions of the submitters and not the views and opinions of the Electoral Commission.