{"id":7144,"date":"2023-08-11T04:52:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T16:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7144"},"modified":"2023-08-11T04:52:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T16:52:38","slug":"new-poll-shows-labour-crashing-nz-first-rising-and-national-act-with-enough-support-to-govern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7144","title":{"rendered":"New poll shows Labour crashing, NZ First rising, and National-Act with enough support to govern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A new Taxpayers\u2019 Union &#8211; Curia poll shows Labour crashing to below 30 per cent and National and Act with enough support to form a government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The poll, released today, also shows Winston Peters and New Zealand First above the 5 per cent threshold and returning to Parliament, while for the first time the Labour and National leaders are on level-pegging in the preferred PM race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The poll shows National up 1.6 percentage points from last month to 34.9 per cent, while Labour is down 4 points to 27.1 per cent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Act is on 13 per cent and the Greens, where most of the Labour supporters appear to have moved after Chris Hipkins ruled out the Greens\u2019 wealth tax, are up 3.1 points to 12 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Labour is facing a clear slump, with support eaten up by the Greens, NZ First and a small bump for National in the latest Taxpayers Union-Curia poll.<\/p>\n<p>National and ACT would have the numbers to form a government &#8211; barely, with 61 seats &#8211; while NZ First would also back in Parliament on the opposition benches, on the poll&#8217;s numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The clearest trend was a four-point drop for Labour compared to the previous month, down to 27.1 percent, with the Greens taking most of that support &#8211; up 3.1 percentage points to 12 percent.<\/p>\n<p>NZ First also gained 2.5 to 5.8 percent &#8211; above the magic 5 percent threshold needed to re-enter Parliament without an electorate seat.<\/p>\n<p>Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori suffered, dropping back to 2.5 percent, though they would likely remain in Parliament by holding electorate seats.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>National<\/b>: 34.9%, up 1.6 (44 seats)<\/li>\n<li><b>Labour<\/b>: 27.1%, down 4 (34 seats)<\/li>\n<li><b>ACT<\/b>: 13%, down 0.2 (17 seats)<\/li>\n<li><b>Green<\/b>: 12%, up 3.1 (15 seats)<\/li>\n<li><b>NZ First<\/b>: 5.8%, up 2.5 (seven seats)<\/li>\n<li><b>Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori<\/b>: 2.5%, down 2.5 (three seats)<\/li>\n<li>Vision NZ: 1.1%, up 1.1<\/li>\n<li>TOP: 1.0%, up 0.7<\/li>\n<li>New Conservatives 0.6%, up 0.2<\/li>\n<li>Outdoors and Freedom 0.5%, up 0.5<\/li>\n<li>Democracy NZ 0.1%, down 1.8<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Labour&#8217;s Chris Hipkins and National&#8217;s Christopher Luxon both rose in the preferred prime minister stakes &#8211; up 2 and 5 points respectively &#8211; to both sit at 25 percent.<\/p>\n<p>ACT&#8217;s David Seymour rose 1 point to 7 percent, equal with NZ First&#8217;s Winston Peters who was up 3 points. Former Labour leader Jacinda Ardern remained in the rankings at 5 percent, while Green MP Chloe Swarbrick gained 2 points to 4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Luxon&#8217;s deputy Nicola Willis was on 2.8 percent, Green co-leader James Shaw on 0.9 percent; Chris Bishop, Marmara Davidson and Leighton Baker were all on 0.8 percent, and Matt King was on 0.3 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The poll took responses from 1000 eligible New Zealand voters, 800 by phone and 200 by online panel, with results weighted for gender, age and location, with a 3.1 percent margin of error at the 95 percent confidence interval.<\/p>\n<p>NZ HERALD \/ RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Taxpayers\u2019 Union &#8211; Curia poll shows Labour crashing to below 30 per cent and National and Act with enough support to form a government. The poll, released today, also shows Winston Peters and New Zealand First above the 5 per cent threshold and returning to Parliament, while for the first time the Labour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7144","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\/7144","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=7144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7146,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144\/revisions\/7146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}