NZ Herald Digipoll August 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 26 August 2011

Client: NZ Herald

Report: NZ Herald

Party Support

• National 52.0% (-0.3%)
• Labour 31.5% (-1.6%)
• Green 9.8% (+1.5%)
• NZ First 2.4% (+1.5%)
• Maori 1.8% (-0.2%)
• United Future 0.1% (+0.1%)
• ACT 1.2% (-0.2%)
• Mana 0.6% (+0.1%)

Projected Seats

• National 65
• Labour 39
• Green 12
• Maori 4
• United Future 1
• ACT 1
• 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 65 + ACT 1 + United Future 1 = 67/123 – 5 more than minimum needed to govern
• CL – Labour 39 + Greens 12 + 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 69.7% (-0.6%)
• Goff 11.5% (+2.2%)
• Peters 5.2% (+2.2%)
• Clark 5.8% (-2.1%)

Direction

• Right 59.5% (+2.0%)
• Wrong 32.2% (-1.6%)
• Unsure 8.3% (-0.4%)