NZ Herald Digipoll 25 November 2011

Polling Company: DigiPoll

Poll Method: Random Phone

Undecideds: 7.7%

Poll Size: 850 respondents, of whom 785 had a party vote preference

Dates: 17 to 23 November 2011

Client: NZ Herald

Report: NZ Herald

Party Support

• National 50.9% (+1.0%)
• Labour 28.0% (-1.1%)
• Green 11.8% (-0.8%)
• NZ First 5.2% (+0.3%)
• Maori 0.4% (-0.3%)
• United Future 0.0% (-01.%)
• ACT 1.8% (+0.1%)
• Mana 0.3% (-0.1%)
• Conservative 1.3% (+0.3%)

Projected Seats

• National 63
• Labour 34
• Green 15
• Maori 4
• United Future 1
• ACT 2
• Mana 1
• NZ First 6
• Total 126

This is based on Maori Party winning four electorate seats and ACT, United Future and Mana one each with Labour winning Wigram.

Coalition Options

• CR – National 63 + ACT 2 + United Future 1 = 66/126 – 2 more than minimum needed to govern
• CL – Labour 34 + Greens 15 + NZ First 6 + Mana 1 = 56/126 -8 less than minimum needed to govern

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

Preferred PM

• Key 66.3% (-2.2%)
• Goff 19.5% (+1.6%)
• Peters 4.3% (+0.6%)