Archives: NZ Issues Polls

Polling Company: Colmar Brunton

Subsciber to NZ Political Polling Code: Yes

Poll Method: Random Phone – 50/50 landline and mobile

Poll Size: 1,007 voters of whom 861 have a party vote preference

Undecideds: 12%

Dates:  7 to 11 April 2018

Client: One News

Report: Colmar Brunton

Party Support

  • National 44.0% (+1%)
  • Labour 43.0% (-5%)
  • Green 6.0% (+1%)
  • NZ First 5.0% (+2.4%)
  • Maori 1.2% (+0.5%)
  • ACT 0.3% (-0.2%)
  • Opportunities 0.4% (-0.2%)

Projected Seats

  • National 54
  • Labour 52
  • Green 8
  • ACT 1
  • NZ First 6
  • Total 121

Coalition Options

  • CR – National 54 + ACT 1 = 55/121 – six fewer the minimum needed to govern
  • CL – Labour 52 + Greens 8 = 60/121 – one fewer than the minimum needed to govern
  • C – NZ First 6= 6/121

On this poll NZ First would hold the balance of power

Preferred PM

  • Simon Bridges 10.0% (+9%)
  • Jacinda Ardern 37% (-4%)
  • Winston Peters 5% (+1%)
 Economic Outlook
  • Better 37% (nc)
  • Same 29% (-1%)
  • Worse 34 (+1%)

PM’s management of recent events

  • Good 35%
  • Okay 50%
  • Bad 11%

Impact of parenthood on PM’s performance

  • Better 15%
  • Worse 18%
  • No difference 59%

Value in NZ remaining in the Commonwealth

  • Yes 80%
  • No 12%

Top priorities for Budget spending

  • Health 22%
  • Education 13%
  • Housing 10%
  • Public health 8%
  • Roads 7%
  • Poverty 6%
  • Mental Health 4%

Abortion poll

February 8, 2018

A Curia poll for Family First found:

  • 52% generally support abortion and 29% oppose
  • 65% think society should work to reduce the level of abortions and 17% disagree
  • 86% support registration for abortion providers and premises, 8% opposed
  • 36% were unsure on what time limit should apply for abortions. 50% support 15 weeks or less.
  • 90% oppose abortions based on the sex of the child
  • 49% support women being able to have an abortion because they don’t want to be a mother with 38% opposed
  • 76% support doctors being required to ascertain a women is not under pressure from a third party to have an abortion, with 8% opposed

Israel’s Capital

February 8, 2018

Roy Morgan found:

  • 25% support Trump’s decision to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel
  • 75% opposed

Polling Company: Reid Research

Subsciber to NZ Political Polling Code: Yes

Poll Method: Random Phone 750 and Internet Panel 250

Poll Size: 1,000

Undecideds: Unknown

Dates:  18 to 28 January 2018

Client: Newshub

Report: Newshub

Party Support

  • National 44.5% (-1.3%)
  • Labour 42.3% (+5.0%)
  • Green 6.0% (-1.1%)
  • NZ First 3.8% (-3.3%)
  • Maori 0.8% (+0.4%)
  • ACT 0.2% (-0.4%)
  • Opportunities 1.4% (+0.5%)

Projected Seats

  • National 57
  • Labour 55
  • Green 8
  • ACT 1
  • NZ First 0
  • Total 121

This is based on no change in electorate seats.

Coalition Options

  • CR – National 57 + ACT 1 = 58/121 – three fewer than the minimum needed to govern
  • CL – Labour 55 + Greens 8 = 63/121 – two more than the minimum needed to govern
  • C – NZ First 0  = 0/121

On this poll there would be a Labour/Green Government

Preferred PM

  • Bill English 26.0% (-8.7%)
  • Jacinda Ardern 38.0% (+8.3%)

Leader Ratings

  • Bill English – 53.3% well and 24.2% poor = +28.9%
  • Jacinda Ardern – 70.9% well and 9.3% poor = +61.6%

PM’s pregnancy

  • positively affect her performance 34%
  • negatively 20%
  • No impact 39%

Prostitution poll

January 12, 2018

A Curia poll for Family First found:

  • 76% support Councils being able to ban street prostitution with 19% opposed
  • 25% support brothels being able to operate in residential areas and 61% opposed

Electoral issues poll

January 12, 2018

Research NZ found:

  • 56% support showing ID in order to vote and 40% opposed
  • 34% support compulsory voting and 59% opposed
  • 37% are satisfied with MMP and 37% dissatisfied
  • 47% agree MMP results in a more representative Government and 32% disagree
  • 28% agree MMP Governments are less effective than FPP Governments and 52% disagree
  • 47% agree it is not a concern the largest party did not form Government and 42% disagree
  • 41% would vote to retain the Maori seats and 44% would vote to abolish them

Kiwisaver investments poll

December 5, 2017

The Herald reports:

Over half of KiwiSavers are apathetic as to where their money is invested, research suggests.

A survey of 1000 people by Westpac has revealed 40 per cent don’t care where their money is invested and a further 16 per cent don’t want to know. …

Westpac’s research revealed 41 per cent of respondents preferred to have their money in a fund which invests in companies making a positive environmental or social contribution.

Fourteen per cent disagreed with that approach, while 45 per cent said they were not concerned. …

But the views were more split when it came to whether investing in companies that make a positive environmental or social contribution was more important than the KiwiSaver rate of return.

Only 24 per cent agreed with that idea while 31 per cent didn’t agree and a further 45 per cent didn’t have an opinion on it.

Medical Cannabis poll

November 21, 2017

ResearchNZ polled 500 people on legalising cannabis-based products for medicinal purposes. They found:

  • 77% support
  • 16% opposed

Poll on Israel

September 3, 2017

A poll by Curia for the NZ Israel Institute found:

  • 55% support the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state and 13% opposed
  • 30% believe NZ should have abstained on the UN Security Council resolution and 27% support the co-sponsoring

Capable leader poll

August 25, 2017

The Herald reports:

Labour leader Jacinda Ardern has eclipsed Andrew Little’s ratings in a poll to rate the most capable person of running the Government but is well behind Bill English.

English, the National Party leader and Prime Minister, is streets ahead of the newcomer and he has improved on his ratings in the Herald-ZB-Kantar TNS poll.

English was rated most capable by 45 per cent compared with his rating of 41 per cent in July.

Ardern was rated the most capable by 32 per cent, a huge improvement on the 10 per cent that former leader Andrew Little got last month.

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters was rated by 7 per cent, two points lower than July.

 

Get our paywalled newsletter on polling insights Subscribe

Get Curia's blog posts
via email