{"id":8138,"date":"2023-10-12T05:12:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T16:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=8138"},"modified":"2023-10-12T05:12:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T16:12:49","slug":"two-polls-show-boost-for-the-left-bloc-and-winston-peters-in-kingmakers-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=8138","title":{"rendered":"Two polls show boost for the left bloc and Winston Peters in kingmaker’s seat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two polls out tonight both have Winston Peters firmly in the drivers’ seat for forming a government, though the left bloc has increased its overall support.<\/p>\n

With\u00a01News<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Newshub<\/a>\u00a0each releasing their final polls ahead of the election, the trends are showing a last-minute boost for Labour and the Greens – but still far short of forming a government without Winston Peters’ support – which he has vowed not to provide them.<\/p>\n

While Newshub’s poll featured a dramatic 4.6-point fall for National, TVNZ’s had National up 1 point but ACT down by the same amount – the right bloc staying steady.<\/p>\n

That could be partly explained by the difference in each poll’s survey period: Newshub’s was comparing to numbers from 17 days before, while TVNZ’s poll has been on a weekly release schedule – which makes for smaller shifts in the numbers.<\/p>\n

Newshub’s poll also showed a smaller majority for the combined National-ACT-NZ First grouping, with 63 seats, and with trends showing an increase in the left vote, the final days could be crucial.<\/p>\n

RNZ Political Editor Jane Patterson\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0Checkpoint\u00a0<\/i>the rise for the left bloc would be putting the pressure on National.<\/p>\n

“Chris Hipkins has of course been talking about that, he said ‘Look, I feel the momentum, that the left bloc is starting to pick up’ and these polls are starting to show that – however they are not being put in the position where they are in a commanding enough position to form a government.”<\/p>\n

“If you look at the timeframe, both of them basically covered the weekend … that covered the threats of a second election on Sunday from National, it covered Chris Hipkins back on the campaign trail, and obviously a lot of policy debate we know over the tax package.<\/p>\n

She said Labour was also really starting to hone in on the impact of a National government on rental tenants and beneficiaries, “so there’s been a lot of very assertive, aggressive campaigning from Labour against the National Party policy platform”.<\/p>\n

RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two polls out tonight both have Winston Peters firmly in the drivers’ seat for forming a government, though the left bloc has increased its overall support. With\u00a01News\u00a0and\u00a0Newshub\u00a0each releasing their final polls ahead of the election, the trends are showing a last-minute boost for Labour and the Greens – but still far short of forming a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8138","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\/8138","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=8138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8140,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8138\/revisions\/8140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}