{"id":7830,"date":"2023-09-14T05:15:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T17:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7830"},"modified":"2023-09-14T05:15:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T17:15:15","slug":"nz-first-returns-to-parliament-under-latest-1news-verian-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7830","title":{"rendered":"NZ First returns to Parliament under latest 1News-Verian poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National has gained in the latest 1News-Verian poll, but all other parties currently in Parliament have lost support or stayed steady.<\/p>\n<p>NZ First would also barely scrape back into Parliament on the poll&#8217;s numbers &#8211; but National and ACT would not need their support to form a government.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>National: 39 percent, up 2 points (49 seats, up 1)<\/li>\n<li>Labour: 28 percent, down 1 points (35 seats, down 2)<\/li>\n<li>Greens: 10 percent, down 2 points (13 seats, down 2)<\/li>\n<li>ACT: 10 percent, down 3 points (13 seats, down 4)<\/li>\n<li>NZ First: 5 percent, up 1 points (7 seats, up 7)<\/li>\n<li>Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori: 3 percent, steady (3 seats, steady)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This result would give National and ACT a combined 62 seats, still able to form a government.<\/p>\n<p>However, it&#8217;s still a decrease of three seats for the right bloc compared to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/political\/496283\/labour-support-drops-again-hipkins-luxon-neck-and-neck-according-to-latest-1news-verian-poll\">the previous 1News-Verian poll<\/a>\u00a0in mid-August &#8211; with ACT dropping four seats, the largest dip &#8211; with most of that change soaked up by NZ First.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Hipkins, the incumbent, saw a two-point increase in the preferred prime minister stakes &#8211; but not as large as that of Christopher Luxon, up three points. It puts them on an even keel: both on 23 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Preferred prime minister:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Christopher Luxon: 23 percent, up 3 points<\/li>\n<li>Chris Hipkins: 23 percent, up 2 points<\/li>\n<li>David Seymour: 5 percent, down 1 point<\/li>\n<li>Winston Peters: 4 percent, up 1 point<\/li>\n<li>Chl\u00f6e Swarbrick: 1 percent, down 1 point<\/li>\n<li>Nicola Willis: 1 percent, down 1 point<\/li>\n<li>Jacinda Ardern: 1 percent, down 1 point<\/li>\n<li>Grant Robertson: 1 percent, up 1 point<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Respondents who refused to answer or were undecided accounted for 10 percent of responses, a decrease of 2 percentage points from the previous poll, but these were excluded from the party vote and preferred prime minister results.<\/p>\n<p>The poll surveyed 1002 eligible voters between 9 and 12 September, and was weighted for demographics, with a margin of error of 3.1 percent at the 95 percent confidence interval. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/670948160\/1News-Verian-poll-September-13\">Full results and poll results here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National has gained in the latest 1News-Verian poll, but all other parties currently in Parliament have lost support or stayed steady. NZ First would also barely scrape back into Parliament on the poll&#8217;s numbers &#8211; but National and ACT would not need their support to form a government. National: 39 percent, up 2 points (49 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7830","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\/7830","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=7830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7832,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7830\/revisions\/7832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}