# Christopher Luxon and New Zealand’s Vote-Splitting Debate

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2117729342981804070
- Source account: [@KiwiStreamNZ](https://x.com/KiwiStreamNZ)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:31
- Published: 2026-11-03
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EG7lhpmhKTfr/en/christopher-luxon-and-new-zealand-s-vote-splitting-debate

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EG7lhpmhKTfr/en/christopher-luxon-and-new-zealand-s-vote-splitting-debate) What do you think of the vote splitting campaign? I mean, how's that going?

[0:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EG7lhpmhKTfr/en/christopher-luxon-and-new-zealand-s-vote-splitting-debate?t=2) It looks like an utter mess, doesn't it?

[0:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EG7lhpmhKTfr/en/christopher-luxon-and-new-zealand-s-vote-splitting-debate?t=4) A lot of people do the so-called strategic voting ads, and I gotta tell you, we do not support them.

[0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EG7lhpmhKTfr/en/christopher-luxon-and-new-zealand-s-vote-splitting-debate?t=9) I think it's tragic for Luxon because what he's saying is not true.

[0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EG7lhpmhKTfr/en/christopher-luxon-and-new-zealand-s-vote-splitting-debate?t=12) And what that risks is actually handing Labor and Chloe Swarbrick the win.

[0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EG7lhpmhKTfr/en/christopher-luxon-and-new-zealand-s-vote-splitting-debate?t=15) His accusations that what we're doing is damaging the center right is, is simply incorrect, and if he doesn't know that, I'm astonished.

[0:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EG7lhpmhKTfr/en/christopher-luxon-and-new-zealand-s-vote-splitting-debate?t=23) Yeah. Well, I mean, it works, doesn't it? Vote splitting works.

[0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EG7lhpmhKTfr/en/christopher-luxon-and-new-zealand-s-vote-splitting-debate?t=26) Well, of course this works. So trying to tell people that it doesn't work or that they're too stupid to do it...

[0:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EG7lhpmhKTfr/en/christopher-luxon-and-new-zealand-s-vote-splitting-debate?t=31) And why is that? Because it is a deliberate, a deliberate attempt to confuse voters in a very tight election.

[0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EG7lhpmhKTfr/en/christopher-luxon-and-new-zealand-s-vote-splitting-debate?t=38) Kind of offensive, don't you reckon? It is really offensive because it's, it's blatantly obvious National will win more electorates by a substantial margin than their party vote entitlement. So it makes much more sense to use those party votes for our coalition partners.

[0:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EG7lhpmhKTfr/en/christopher-luxon-and-new-zealand-s-vote-splitting-debate?t=52) I'm saying to you over and over again, I'll say it every day.

[0:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EG7lhpmhKTfr/en/christopher-luxon-and-new-zealand-s-vote-splitting-debate?t=54) If you want a National government, National needs to be bigger than Labor.

[0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EG7lhpmhKTfr/en/christopher-luxon-and-new-zealand-s-vote-splitting-debate?t=58) He's simply wrong, and he's misleading the public.

[1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EG7lhpmhKTfr/en/christopher-luxon-and-new-zealand-s-vote-splitting-debate?t=60) You're coming on here saying Christopher Luxon, the guy who the right wants to be prime minister, is misleading the public.

[1:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EG7lhpmhKTfr/en/christopher-luxon-and-new-zealand-s-vote-splitting-debate?t=67) It's not a great moment for the right of politics, is it?

[1:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EG7lhpmhKTfr/en/christopher-luxon-and-new-zealand-s-vote-splitting-debate?t=70) Well, that's true, but where is the fault lying here?

[1:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EG7lhpmhKTfr/en/christopher-luxon-and-new-zealand-s-vote-splitting-debate?t=72) The fault lies with the Prime Minister. He's misleading the public into believing that a party vote for National will somehow improve the prospects for the center right coalition.

[1:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EG7lhpmhKTfr/en/christopher-luxon-and-new-zealand-s-vote-splitting-debate?t=82) It won't. Why don't you just tell the public outright and let them decide?

[1:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EG7lhpmhKTfr/en/christopher-luxon-and-new-zealand-s-vote-splitting-debate?t=85) They are, after all, you know what they are?

[1:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EG7lhpmhKTfr/en/christopher-luxon-and-new-zealand-s-vote-splitting-debate?t=87) They're a phenomenal thing called the master of democracy