1. Promise
Record the original commitment, date, party or politician, and election or governing context.
From 2000 onward
Promises, outcomes, and the reasons in between.
A public-interest tracker for New Zealand political commitments: what was promised, what happened, and what context explains the result.
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tracked promises in the database
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Kept
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Partly kept
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Not kept
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Active or too early
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Delayed
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Reversed
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Unknown
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Current promises
Active commitments and recent promises with measurable implementation steps are tracked here with progress notes.
Evidence table
Promise tracker
The database now separates each commitment from its outcome, delivery context, confidence score, and source trail.
No promises match those filters yet.
How judgments work
Assessment method
The goal is not to score political teams like sports clubs. It is to separate commitments from delivery evidence, then show the reasons that made delivery easier, harder, partial, or impossible.
2. Outcome
Mark whether the promise was kept, partly kept, not kept, or still active using public evidence.
3. Reasons
Capture implementation context: coalition trade-offs, fiscal pressure, legal limits, capacity, demand, or policy redesign.
4. Confidence
Assign a confidence level based on source quality, specificity, and whether the promise has a measurable target.
Audit trail
Source approach
Prefer primary sources first: manifestos, coalition agreements, legislation, ministerial releases, official statistics, and audits. Journalism is useful for contemporaneous reporting and political context.