NZ Herald Digipoll April 2012

Polling Company: DigiPoll

Poll Method: Random Phone

Undecideds: 7.1%

Poll Size: 750 respondents, of whom 697 had a party vote preference

Dates: 19 to 29 April 2012

Client: NZ Herald

Report: NZ Herald

Party Support

• National 48.1% (-2.8%)
• Labour 34.8% (+6.8%)
• Green 9.2% (-2.6%)
• NZ First 4.9% (-0.3%)
• Maori 1.7% (+1.3%)
• United Future 0.7% (+0.7%)
• ACT 0.0% (-1.8%)
• Mana 0.1% (-0.2%)
• Conservative 0.1% (-1.2%)

Projected Seats

• National 61
• Labour 44
• Green 12
• Maori 3
• United Future 1
• ACT 1
• Mana 1
• NZ First 0
• Total 123

This is based on no change in electorate seats.

Coalition Options

• CR – National 611 + ACT 1 + United Future 1 = 63/123 – 1 more than minimum needed to govern
• CL – Labour 44 + Greens 12 + Mana 1 = 57/126 -5 less than minimum needed to govern

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

Preferred PM

• Key 63.9% (-2.4%)
• Shearer 13.1% (-6.4% from Goff)
• Peters 6.4% (+0.9%)

• Right 49.2% (-5.2%)
• Wrong 42.1% (+5.4%)
• Unsure 8.7% (-0.2%)

Paid Parental Leave

• In favour of extending to 26 weeks 48.6%
• Against 48.4%

Sky City deal

• 40.3% disapprove
• 37.7% approve so long as number of pokies over the city drops