NZ Herald Digipoll October 2011
October 29, 2011
Polling Company: DigiPoll
Poll Method: Random Phone
Undecideds: 10.6%
Poll Size: 750 respondents, of whom 671 had a party vote preference
Dates: 20 to 27 October 2011
Client: NZ Herald
Report: NZ Herald
Party Support
- National 53.5% (+1.5%)
- Labour 30.3% (-1.2%)
- Green 9.5% (-0.3%)
- NZ First 2.8% (+0.4%)
- Maori 1.2% (-0.6%)
- United Future 0.1% (nc)
- ACT 1.5% (+0.3%)
- Mana 0.1% (-0.1%)
Projected Seats
- National 67
- Labour 38
- Green 12
- Maori 3
- United Future 1
- ACT 2
- Mana 1
- Total 124
This is based on Maori Party winning three electorate seats and ACT, United Future and Mana one each with Labour winning Te Tai Tonga.
Coalition Options
- CR – National 67 + ACT 2 + United Future 1 = 70/124 – 7 more than minimum needed to govern
- CL – Labour 38 + Greens 12 + Mana 1 = 51/124 -12 less than minimum needed to govern
The Maori Party is not shown as part of the centre-right or centre-left.
Preferred PM
- Key 70.6% (+0.9%)
- Goff 13.7% (+2.2%)
- Peters 3.5% (-1.7%)
Direction
- Right 59.0% (-0.5%)
- Wrong 32.0% (-0.2%)
- Unsure 9.0% (+0.7%)
MMP
- Keep MMP 48%
- Change 15%
- Don’t Know 15%
Rugby World Cup
- 39% say McCaw should be knighted for winning RWC, 61% say no
- 57% say the RWC was a great event and worth spending $40m on
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