NZ Herald Digipoll February 2010

Polling Company: DigiPoll

Poll Method: Random Phone

Poll Size: 600 respondents (4.1% maximum margin of error)

Dates: 29 January to 10 February 2010

Client: NZ Herald

Report: NZ Herald

Party Support

• National 56.0% (-1.3%)
• Labour 33.6% (+1.2%)
• Green 4.6% (nc)
• NZ First 1.7% (+0.8%)
• Maori 2.8% (nc)
• United Future 0.1% (+0.1%)
• ACT 0.8% (-0.1%)
• Progressive 0.2% (+0.1%)

Projected Seats

• National 72
• Labour 43
• Green 0
• NZ First 0
• Maori 5
• United Future 1
• ACT 1
• Progressive 1
• Total 123

This is based on Maori Party winning five electorate seats and ACT, United Future and Progressive one each.

Coalition Options

• CR – National 72 + ACT 1 + United Future 1 = 74/123 – 12 more than minimum needed to govern
• CL – Labour 43 + Progressive 1 + Greens 0 = 44/123 -18 less than minimum needed to govern

The Maori Party is not shown as part of the centre-right or centre-left.

Preferred PM

• Key 58.0% (+2.7%)
• Clark 7.0% (-3.6%)
• Goff 6.8% (+0.6%)