{"id":8013,"date":"2023-09-26T05:22:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T16:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=8013"},"modified":"2023-09-26T05:22:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T16:22:06","slug":"peters-returns-as-kingmaker-under-newshub-reid-research-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=8013","title":{"rendered":"Peters returns as Kingmaker under Newshub-Reid Research poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National and ACT would need Winston Peters&#8217; support to form a government under the latest Newshub-Reid Research poll.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>National: 39.1 percent, down 1.8 points (49 seats)<\/li>\n<li>Labour: 26.5 percent, down 0.3 points (33 seats)<\/li>\n<li>Greens: 14.2 percent, up 1.9 points (18 seats)<\/li>\n<li>ACT: 8.8 percent, down 1.3 points (11 seats)<\/li>\n<li>NZ First: 5.2 percent, up 0.6 points (6 seats)<\/li>\n<li>Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori: 2.2 percent, down 0.9 points (3 seats)<\/li>\n<li>TOP: 1.9 percent, up 1.2 points<\/li>\n<li>New Conservatives: 1.1 percent<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Between them, National and ACT would have 60 seats, just short of the 61 needed to form a government and requiring the support of NZ First&#8217;s Winston Peters.<\/p>\n<p>Luxon\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/political\/498702\/election-2023-national-party-confirms-it-could-work-with-nz-first\">confirmed on Monday<\/a>\u00a0National would form a government with NZ First if required, but his first preference would be for a two-party coalition with ACT.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If New Zealand First is returned to Parliament and I need to pick up the phone to Mr Peters to keep Labour and the coalition of chaos out, I will make that call. And frankly, I think Chris Hipkins will ultimately do exactly the same thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The left bloc of Labour, the Greens and Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori falls well short of governing, with just 54 seats between them. Peters and Labour&#8217;s have Chris Hipkins ruled out working with one another.<\/p>\n<p>On the preferred prime minister stakes, National&#8217;s Christopher Luxon has also risen, clearly overtaking Hipkins &#8211; who dropped 3.4 percentage points.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Christopher Luxon: 24 percent, up 1.5 points<\/li>\n<li>Chris Hipkins: 19.1 percent, down 3.4 points<\/li>\n<li>David Seymour: 6.1 percent, down 0.9 points<\/li>\n<li>Winston Peters: 6 percent, up 1.4 points<\/li>\n<li>Chl\u00f6e Swarbrick: 4.4 percent, up 1.2 points<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The previous\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/political\/497780\/labour-drops-5-point-5-points-in-latest-newshub-reid-research-poll\">Newshub-Reid Research poll<\/a>\u00a0a fortnight ago had National up 4.3 points to 40.9 percent, and Labour down 5.5 points to 26.8 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The poll surveyed about 1000 eligible voters between 17 and 23 September and was weighted for demographics, with a margin of error of 3.1 percent at the 95 percent confidence interval.<\/p>\n<p>RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National and ACT would need Winston Peters&#8217; support to form a government under the latest Newshub-Reid Research poll. National: 39.1 percent, down 1.8 points (49 seats) Labour: 26.5 percent, down 0.3 points (33 seats) Greens: 14.2 percent, up 1.9 points (18 seats) ACT: 8.8 percent, down 1.3 points (11 seats) NZ First: 5.2 percent, up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8013","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\/8013","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=8013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8015,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8013\/revisions\/8015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}