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The results of the eleventh Taxpayers’ Union Curia Poll is more bad news for the Labour government. Act & National could govern alone.
The polling period was Thursday 1 – Friday 9 September 2022.
Here are the headline results:
National bounces back from 34% in August to 37% in September and Labour drop 2 points to 33%. ACT up 1 point to 12% and Greens static on 10%.
The smaller parties are Māori Party at 1.5%, NZ First at 1.6%, New Conservatives 1.5%, and TOP 0.7%.
Here is how these results would translate to seats in Parliament, assuming all electorate seats are held:
The projected seats for the centre-right crosses the 61 seat majority threshold going from 58 seats to 63. The centre-left drops from 57 seats to 55. This means National and Act would be able to form a Government.
Ardern drops 3 points to 37% while Luxon bounces up from 20% to 26%. David Seymour has 6.6%
In fourth place as Preferred PM is Chloe Swarbrick on a respectable 3.2%. That is higher than both Green co-leaders combined with Marama Davidson on 1.4% and James Shaw 1.0%.
The cost of living at 22% (-1%) remains the most important issue followed by the economy more generally at 15%. Health is in third place at 7% closely followed by Law & Order on 6%.
The net country direction drops to a record low of -23%. 32% of New Zealanders think the country is heading in the right direction and 54% say the wrong direction.
Source: taxpayers.org.nz
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