The Waikato Times reports:
The new poll puts Ms Hardaker’s support at 20 per cent, then Ewan Wilson with 10 per cent and Dave Macpherson at 6 per cent, but critically stages undecided voters – 49 per cent of those polled – as mayor-makers.
Radio Live report:
The latest UMR research poll indicates a strong majority for Len Brown in the upcoming Mayoral election – the current Mayor sitting on a cool 47 percent of the total vote, 66 percent of the decided vote.
New challenger John Palino is in second place, with 14 percent of the total vote and 20 percent of the decided vote. MANA Party secretary John Minto is third, with five and seven percent respectively.
NewstalkZB reports:
A Newstalk ZB Media Research poll released today shows at this stage it’s a fight between incumbent mayor Celia Wade-Brown and councillor John Morrison for the Wellington mayoralty.
Wade-Brown has 31.67% of popular support to continue as mayor, while Morrison is close behind with 25.22%. Jack Yan came in a distant third with 4.15%.
A significant 28.38% of the electorate remains undecided.
The Press reports:
A Press Research First poll has revealed that nearly a third of Christchurch voters are undecided and another third of the electorate could also be up for grabs.
The poll was taken before Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker announced he was not going to stand for another term.
It found that Parker was attracting only 20 per cent of the vote, Labour MP Lianne Dalziel was winning 48 per cent, while 32 per cent of people were undecided.
The poll also shows that 40 per cent of people who said they would vote for Dalziel were doing so because they wanted a change or were unhappy with Parker.
About 41 per cent of the mayoral choices were tactical in some way, meaning they were voting against the other candidate rather than for their choice.
Of those that had chosen a candidate, 70 per cent favoured Dalziel and 30 per cent supported Parker.
Another story states:
Christchurch people have given their city councillors the worst rating ever seen by a polling company, but do not want the Government to take over, a new survey says.
The Press Research First poll has found widespread disillusionment with councillors and the mayor over their leadership since 2010. The main complaint was dysfunction and lack of unity.
The poll asked Christchurch residents to rate the performance of council leadership on a scale from zero to 10, with zero being very poor. About 60 per cent of people gave council leadership a score lower than five. …
The poll also found that Christchurch people do not want the Government to take over council leadership as it did with Environment Canterbury in 2010.
About 51 per cent of those polled said they disagreed with Government intervention. Twenty-eight per cent agreed with a Government takeover.
And a further story on CERA:
People were asked to rate Cera on a scale of zero to 10, with zero being very poor. About 20 per cent of respondents gave Cera a five out of 10; 26 per cent said Cera were doing a good job, 13 per cent complained of a lack of progress; and 9 per cent said they could be doing a better job.
Lack of progress was the main reason for a poor rating.
Research First also calculated a ratings score based on the ratio of low ratings to high. The score ranges from +100 to -100. Cera scored -51 on the scale, compared to -79 for councillors and the mayor, which was the worst ever seen by the polling company.
Polling Company: Reid Research
Poll Method: Random Phone
Poll Size: 1,000 respondents, of whom 863 have a party preference, (3.5% maximum margin of error)
Dates: 27 September to 06 October 2010
Client: TV3
Report:
Party Support
Projected Seats
This is based on Maori Party winning five electorate seats, ACT and United Future one each and Labour winning Wigram.
Coalition Options
The Maori Party is not shown as part of the centre-right or centre-left.
Preferred PM
Leadership Approval
Leadership Characteristics – Positive
Leadership Characteristics – Negative
Auckland Mayoralty (500 sample)
Act Leadership
The Herald reports a Digipoll of 750 Aucklanders:
A Press poll of 500 voters by Opinions Research found:
Research NZ did a poll of 474 adults from 4 to 12 August. The proportion who said an issue would a lot of influence of now they vote were:
74% said they were very likely to vote,
The Herald reports a Herald Digipoll:
A Herald-DigiPoll survey found 36.3 per cent of Aucklanders believe C&R, which has controlled the Auckland City Council for many years, should control the new Auckland Council. A total of 39.9 per cent of respondents said C&R should not control it and 23.7 per cent did not know or refused to answer.
The poll found 54.8 per cent had heard of C&R and 43.7 per cent had not.
UMR did an online poll of 350 Christchurch residents from 27 May to 7 June 2010.