Polling Company: Nielsen
Poll Method: Random Phone
Poll Size: 1,102 total voters, 981 decided voters (3.3% maximum margin of error)
Dates: 6 to 12 August 2008
Client: Fairfax Media
Party Support
- National 54.0% (+3.0%)
- Labour 35.0% (nc)
- Green 4.0% (-1.0%)
- NZ First 3.0% (-1.0%)
- Maori 2.0% (nc)
- United Future 0.0% (nc)
- ACT 1.0% (nc)
- Progressive 0.0% (nc)
Projected Seats
- National 70
- Labour 46
- Green 0
- NZ First 0
- Maori 6
- United Future 1
- ACT 1
- Progressive 1
- Total 125
This is based on Maori Party winning six electorate seats and ACT, United Future and Progressive one each.
Preferred PM
- Key 43.0% (+4.0%)
- Clark 31.0 (-1.0%)
- Peters 2.0% (-1.0%)
Issues
- 35% think National can afford significantly bigger tax cuts than Labour, 48% disagree
- 45% think personal finances get better in next 12 months, 30% worse