{"id":12646,"date":"2025-02-11T05:53:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T16:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12646"},"modified":"2025-02-11T05:53:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T16:53:37","slug":"two-new-polls-show-centre-left-bloc-could-form-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12646","title":{"rendered":"Two new polls show centre-left bloc could form government"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two political polls out today show the left bloc has the numbers to form a government if an election was held today.<\/p>\n

Support for National dropped 3 points to 34 percent in tonight’s 1News-Verian poll.<\/p>\n

The ACT party had a 1 point bump to 9 percent while New Zealand First dropped one point to 5 percent.<\/p>\n

Labour is up 4 points to 33 percent, the Greens are steady on 10 percent and Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori is down 3 points to 4 percent.<\/p>\n

On these results, the left bloc would have 61 seats, the minimum level of support required to form a government.<\/p>\n

The results also surveyed economic optimisim, finding it dropped 5 points to 36 percent, compared to Verian’s December poll.<\/p>\n

Economic pessimism rose 3 points to 25 percent.<\/p>\n

Of those polled, 39 percent said the government was heading in the right direction and 50 per centsaid the government was going in the wrong direction.<\/p>\n

The remaining 11 percent did not know or preferred not to say.<\/p>\n

On the preferred prime minister stakes, National’s Christopher Luxon dropped 2 points to 22 per cent – his lowest result since taking the top job.<\/p>\n

Labour’s Chris Hipkins rose 2 points to 17 per cent.<\/p>\n

The rest of the leaders were steady with David Seymour and Chl\u00f6e Swarbrick on 6 percent, and Winston Peters on 5 percent.<\/p>\n

Tonight’s 1News Verian poll, taken between 3 and 7 February, surveyed 1000 eligible voters with a margin of error of +\/- 3.1 per cent.<\/p>\n

It follows a\u00a0Taxpayers’ Union-Curia Poll out this afternoon<\/a>, which also showed the left bloc is in a position to hold power if an election was held today.<\/p>\n

The poll, conducted between 2 and 4 February, had National ever so slightly ahead of Labour – up 2.3 points to 31.9 per cent, while Labour is up 0.4 points to 31.3 percent.<\/p>\n

The Greens have done the heavy-lifting getting the centre-bloc into a position to govern for the first time since March 2022, up 3.7 points to 13.2 percent.<\/p>\n

ACT and New Zealand First were both down to 10 and 6.4 per cent respectively, while Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori had a slight dip to 4.4 percentage points.<\/p>\n

The Curia poll surveyed 1000 adults with a margin of error of +\/- 3.1 percent.<\/p>\n

Curia is a longstanding polling company but is no longer a member of the Research Association NZ body.<\/p>\n

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Two political polls out today show the left bloc has the numbers to form a government if an election was held today. Support for National dropped 3 points to 34 percent in tonight’s 1News-Verian poll. The ACT party had a 1 point bump to 9 percent while New Zealand First dropped one point to 5 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12648,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12646\/revisions\/12648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}