Ikaroa-Rawhiti Marae Digipoll October 2008

Polling Company: DigiPoll

Poll Method: Random Phone of Ikaroa-Rawhiti voters

Poll Size: 400 voters (4.9% maximum margin of error)

Dates: 15 October to 28 October 2008

Client: Marae

Report: TVNZ

Party Support

• Labour 45.5%
• Maori Party 39.2%
• NZ First 4.9%
• National 3.1%
• Green 3.9%

Candidate Support

• Parekura Horomia, Labour 49.8%
• Derek Fox, Maori Party 44.4%

Preferred PM

• Helen Clark 50.8%
• Winston Peters 6.0%
• Pita Sharples 9.1%
• John Key 4.6%
• Tariana Turia 4.1%

Country Direction

• Right 64.0%
• No 23.7%
• Don’t Know 12.3%

Parekura Horomia Performance

• Very Satisfied 19.4%
• Satisfied 53.9%
• Not Satisfied 18.5%
• Don’t Know 8.3%

Most effective Maori MP

• Parekura Horomia 30.1%
• Pita Sharples 20.4%
• Hone Harawira 3.7%
• Tariana Turia 11.1%
• Winston Peters 7.1%

Most important issue

• Maori/Treaty 15.6%
• Education 19.0%
• Law & Order 8.3%
• Health 12.9%
• Family Issues 6.5%

Coalitions

• Maori Party coalition with Labour – 83.4% support, 12.1% do not
• Maori Party coalition with National – 20.8% support, 73.1% do not

Identity

• New Zealander First 15.4%
• Maori first 67.0%
• Both 17.4%