{"id":8082,"date":"2023-10-05T05:03:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T16:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=8082"},"modified":"2023-10-05T05:03:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T16:03:43","slug":"national-act-remain-on-track-to-form-government-with-support-from-nz-first-poll-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=8082","title":{"rendered":"National, ACT remain on track to form government with support from NZ First, poll shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National and ACT will need to call on NZ First if they are to form the next government, the latest 1News-Verian poll suggests.<\/p>\n<p>National&#8217;s support has stayed steady on 36 percent which would deliver 46 seats in parliament, however, ACT&#8217;s support has fallen 2 percent to 10, meaning 13 seats.<\/p>\n<p>So they would need NZ First&#8217;s eight seats to reach the required 61 to form a government.<\/p>\n<p>On 25 September Christopher Luxon announced he would be willing to work with NZ First if necessary, but his preference was a National-ACT coalition.<\/p>\n<p>The centre left parties have maintained the same level of support, the poll found.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>National: 36 percent, steady (46 seats)<\/li>\n<li>Labour: 26 percent, steady (33 seats)<\/li>\n<li>Greens: 13 percent, steady (17 seats)<\/li>\n<li>ACT: 10 percent, down 2 points (13 seats)<\/li>\n<li>NZ First: 6 percent, steady (8 seats)<\/li>\n<li>Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori: 2 percent, steady (3 seats)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Opportunities Party (TOP) has edged up to 2 percent, NZ Loyal remains on 1 percent, with Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis and Freedom New Zealand and New Zeal all attracting 1 percent each.<\/p>\n<p>Some 10 percent said they did not know, or refused to say, who they would vote for &#8211; these were excluded from the percentage and seat calculations.<\/p>\n<p>In the preferred prime minister stakes National leader Christopher Luxon has scored a 3 percent rise in support to 26 percent and edged ahead of Labour&#8217;s Chris Hipkins who is on 25 (up two points). It is the first time Luxon has been the top choice for PM in the poll.<\/p>\n<p>The poll surveyed 1000 eligible voters and was weighted for demographics, with a margin of error of 3.1 percent at the 95 percent confidence interval. It was conducted between 30 September and 3 October.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Christopher Luxon: 26 percent &#8211; up 3 points<\/li>\n<li>Chris Hipkins: 25 percent &#8211; up 2 points<\/li>\n<li>Winston Peters: 4 percent, steady<\/li>\n<li>David Seymour: 3 percent, down 2 points<\/li>\n<li>Chl\u00f6e Swarbrick: 2 percent, up 1 point<\/li>\n<li>James Shaw: 2 percent, up 1 point<\/li>\n<li>Marama Davidson: 1 percent, down 1 point<\/li>\n<li>Nicola Willis: 1 percent, steady<\/li>\n<li>Liz Gunn: 1 percent, steady<\/li>\n<li>Rawiri Waititi, 1 percent, up 1 point<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National and ACT will need to call on NZ First if they are to form the next government, the latest 1News-Verian poll suggests. National&#8217;s support has stayed steady on 36 percent which would deliver 46 seats in parliament, however, ACT&#8217;s support has fallen 2 percent to 10, meaning 13 seats. So they would need NZ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8082","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\/8082","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=8082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8084,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082\/revisions\/8084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}