Election
First panel: A Triangle-exper, wearing an orange bowtie is waving to the audience, with a slide screen next to them announcing GENERAL ELECTION ‘26. They say: “I’m dr Trzyrog, welcome to my post-election analysis!”
Second panel: The screen now shows a colour spectrum, with red, yellow, green, teal, blue, pink highligted and numbered 1-5 (2 points to both yellow and pink). Expert says: “According to data, the entire spectrum was well served on the election day.”
Third panel: The screen now shows a linear gradient from deep red, through brown to black. Red is labeled 1-5 (and shows colours from prior chart), brown is labeled 6, black is labeled 7. They say: “Situation is a bit worse on the luminance side, with only a few choices available.”
Fourth panel: The screen now shows a linear grayscale gradient from black to white. Only black is highlighted, with number 7. “Concerningly, there was no nation-wide alternative for saturation voters.”
Fifth panel: The same linear grayscale gradient is shown, but this time, black, grey and white are highlighted. Black is labeled “Whangārei” and “Kenepuru”, grey is labeled “Mt Maunganui” and “West Coast-Tasman”, and white is labeled “Hutt South” and “Mt Albert”. The expert says: “Thankfully, some electorates provided local options, which was good to see.” They sign off with: “Thank you for participating.”
NZ election has just concluded, congratulations!
One way to describe colours is through hue, luminance and saturation (HSL). Hue describes the spectral colour (as on the rainbow), luminance describes how dark a colour is, and saturation describes how washed-out the colour is.
Of course NZ voting system hasn’t got hue, luminance and saturation votes, which I invented for the purpose of this comic (it would be really cool if it did though!)
It does however have two votes: one for the party (which determines the % composition of the parliament), and one for the local MP (which determines who represents your region in the parliament).
The numbers identify parties in the party vote, each assigned a colour that matches their main branding theme. I’ve ordered them based on random colour wheel I found on the internet: 1 - Labour (red), 2 - Act (yellow & pink), 3 - Greens (green), 4 - Opportunity (teal), 5 - National (blue), 6 - Te Pāti Māori (warm brown), 7 - NZ First (black).
For the electorate vote, Whangārei had Collin Blackman, Kenepuru had Jon Blackshaw, Mt Maunganui had Rhieve Grey, West Coast-Tasman had Sue Grey, Hutt South had Courtney White, and finally Mt Albert had Helen White.