Tamaki Makaurau Marae Digipoll October 2008
October 12, 2008
Polling Company: DigiPoll
Poll Method: Random Phone of Tamaki Makaurau voters
Poll Size: 400 voters (4.9% maximum margin of error)
Dates: 15 September to 7 October 2008
Client: Marae
Report: TVNZ
Party Support
- Labour 37.5%
- Maori Party 41.2%
- NZ First 7.3%
- National 5.9%
- Green 4.0%
Candidate Support
- Louisa Wall, Labour 13.5%
- Pita Sharples, Maori Party 77.4%
- Mikaere Curtis, Greens 6.5%
Preferred PM
- Helen Clark 39.0%
- Winston Peters 10.2%
- Pita Sharples 7.2%
- John Key 6.7%
- Tariana Turia 5.9%
Country Direction
- Right 46.5%
- No 39.7%
- Don’t Know 13.8%
Pita Sharples Performance
- Very Satisfied 26.2%
- Satisfied 54.1%
- Not Satisfied 9.4%
- Don’t Know 10.4%
Most effective Maori MP
- Pita Sharples 32.8%
- Hone Harawira 12.1%
- Tariana Turia 9.0%
- Winston Peters 7.0%
- Parekura Horomia 4.6%
- Shane Jones 2.8%
- Tau Henare 1.6%
- Dover Samuels 1.5%
- Nanaia Mahuta 1.2%
- Te Ururoa Flavell 1.0%
- Georgina te Heuheu 1.0%
Most important issue
- Education 16.8%
- Law & Order 15.1%
- Maori/Treaty 11.7%
- Health 9.5%
- Family Issues 8.0%
Coalitions
- Maori Party coalition with Labour – 71.3% support, 20.6% do not
- Maori Party coalition with National – 27.7% support, 63.8% do not
Identity
- New Zealander First 15.4%
- Maori first 72.2%
- Both 11.8%
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