NZ Herald Digipoll July 2011
July 31, 2011
Polling Company: DigiPoll
Poll Method: Random Phone
Undecideds: 11.2%
Poll Size: 750 respondents, of whom 666 had a party vote preference
Dates: 19 to 27 July 2011
Client: NZ Herald
Report: NZ Herald
Party Support
- National 52.3% (+1.1%)
- Labour 33.1% (-3.0%)
- Green 8.3% (+1.7%)
- NZ First 0.9% (-0.3%)
- Maori 2.0% (+0.3%)
- United Future 0.0% (nc)
- ACT 1.4% (-0.5%)
- Mana 0.6% (+0.1%)
Projected Seats
- National 64
- Labour 41
- Green 10
- Maori 4
- United Future 1
- ACT 2
- Mana 1
- Total 123
This is based on Maori Party winning four electorate seats and ACT, United Future and Mana one each.
Coalition Options
- CR – National 64 + ACT 2 + United Future 1 = 67/124 – 5 more than minimum needed to govern
- CL – Labour 41 + Greens 10 + Mana 1 = 52/124 -10 less than minimum needed to govern
The Maori Party is not shown as part of the centre-right or centre-left.
Preferred PM
- Key 70.3% (-0.3%)
- Goff 9.3% (-2.6%)
- Peters 2.9% (-2.5%)
- Clark 7.9% (+3.8%)
Direction
- Right 57.5%
- Wrong 33.8%
- Unsure 8.7%
Capital Gains Tax
- Strongly favour 16.5%
- Moderately favour 21.4%
- No opinion 22.8%
- Moderately against 16%
- Strongly against 21.5%
- More likely to vote Labour 22.1%
- Less likely to vote Labour 14.4%
- No difference 61.3%
Asset Sales
- Strongly favour 7.2%
- Moderately favour 19.8%
- No opinion 15.5%
- Moderately against 22.1%
- Strongly against 34.5%
Debt Repayment Preferences
- CGT 43.1%
- Asset part-sales 34.4%
SAS in Afghanistan
- Remain beyond March 2012 23.1%
- Withdraw as scheduled 63.3%
Maori
- Too much say 42.2%
- Too little say 13.2%
- About the right amount 39.8%
Women paid less because they are women
- Yes 54.2%
- No 36.4%