Nats lose ground to Labour/Greens
A new poll shows the Labour-Green alliance closing the gap on National. With special feature audio.
Labour and the Greens are closing the gap on National, a new poll shows.
The most recent Reid Research poll puts National at 45.1% – a drop of almost 2% – with Labour-Greens trailing by just 0.9% at 44.2%, up 1.8%.
Labour, by itself, scored 32.7% while support for the Green party was 11.5%.
The parties signed a memorandum of understanding in May to campaign together to dethrone National in the 2017 election.
ACT and United Future were on 0.2% and 0.1% respectively, but the poll assumes both David Seymour and Peter Dunn would retain their electoral seats.
The Maori Party achieved 1.3% in the poll.
But even with the support of ACT, United Future and the Maori Party, National is still three seats short of achieving the 62 seats needed to form a government.
This makes New Zealand First, with 8.1% support – translating to 10 seats in Parliament – kingmaker.
Despite this, Prime Minister John Key seemed to brush off concerns speaking to media yesterday.
Mr Key remains the nation’s preferred prime minister at 36.7%, with Winston Peters and Andrew Little trailing a long way behind at 10.9% and 10.5% respectively. Almost 42% of poll participants say they don’t know or supported another candidate.
The Reid Research poll of 1000 people was taken between July 22 and August 3 and has a margin of error of 3.1%.
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Jason Walls
Tue, 09 Aug 2016
Tue, 09 Aug 2016
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Nats lose ground to Labour/Greens
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