Posts Tagged Bill English
July 21, 2011 at 1:59 pm · Filed under NZ Political Party Polls ·Tagged Bill English, Capital Gains Tax, Colmar Brunton, David Cunliffe, Economy, Finance Minister, NZ Political Party Polls, One News, Preferred PM, tax, TVNZ
Polling Company: Colmar Brunton
Poll Method: Random Phone
Poll Size: 1,008, of whom 860 had a party preference
Dates: 9 to 13 July 2011
Client: One News
Report: Colmar Brunton
Party Support
- National 53.0% (+1.0%)
- Labour 27.0% (-7.0%)
- Green 10.0% (+4.0%)
- ACT 3.1% (+0.6%)
- Maori 3.0% (+1.6%)
- United Future 0.3% (nc)
- Mana 0.5% (-0.4%)
- NZ First 2.4% (+0.8%)
Projected Seats
- National 66
- Labour 33
- Green 12
- ACT 4
- Maori 4
- United Future 1
- Mana 1
- NZ First 0
- Total 121
This is based on Maori Party winning four electorate seats, ACT, United Future and Mana one seat each and Labour winning Wigram.
Coalition Options
- CR – National 66 + ACT 4 + United Future 1 = 71/121 – 10 more than minimum needed to govern
- CL – Labour 33 + Greens 12 + Mana 1= 46/121 -15 less than minimum needed to govern
The Maori Party is not shown as part of the centre-right or centre-left.
Preferred PM
- John Key 54% (+1%)
- Phil Goff 9% (+1%)
- Winston Peters 3% (+15)
Economic Outlook
- Better 52% (+4%)
- Worse 28% (-5%)
- Same 20% (+1%)
Capital Gains Tax
- Support 43%
- Oppose 49%
- Don’t Know 9%
Raise tax rate to 39% for those over $120,000
- Support 42%
- Oppose 54%
- Don’t Know 5%
Most trusted party to manage economy
- National 53%
- Labour 24%
- Greens 2%
- ACT 1%
- Don’t Know 13%
Best Finance Minister
- Bill English 49%
- David Cunliffe 29%
- Don’t Know 23%
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October 18, 2009 at 6:09 pm · Filed under NZ Political Party Polls ·Tagged Bill English, Economy, Leader Ratings, NZ Political Party Polls, Preferred PM, Reid Research, TV3
Polling Company: Reid Research
Poll Method: Random Phone
Poll Size: 1,000 respondents, of whom 917 have a party preference, (3.2% maximum margin of error)
Dates: 06 October to 14 October 2009
Client: TV3
Report: TV3
Party Support
- National 59.9% (+1.8%)
- Labour 27.2% (-2.0%)
- Green 6.9% (-0.6%)
- ACT 1.7% (+0.3%)
- Maori 2.4% (+1.2%)
- United Future 0.0% (-0.2%)
- Progressive 0.3% (+0.3%)
- NZ First 1.0% (nc)
Projected Seats
- National 74
- Labour 33
- Green 8
- ACT 2
- Maori 5
- United Future 1
- Progressive 1
- NZ First 0
- Total 124
This is based on Maori Party winning five electorate seats and ACT, United Future and Progressive one each.
Coalition Options
- CR – National 74 + ACT 2 + United Future 1 = 77/124 – 14 more than minimum needed to govern
- CL – Labour 33 + Progressive 1 + Greens 8 = 42/124 -21 less than minimum needed to govern
The Maori Party is not shown as part of the centre-right or centre-left.
Preferred PM
- Key 55.8% (+4.3%)
- Clark 8.2% (+0.2%)
- Goff 4.7% 6.5% (-1.8%)
- Peters 3.0%
Leadership Approval
- Key – 82.3% (+3.7%) doing well vs 7.2% (-2.0%) doing poorly – net positive is 75.1% (=5.1%)
- Goff – 34.2% (-0.2%) doing well vs 37.9% (-3.7%) doing poorly – net positive is -3.7% (+3.5%)
Leadership Characteristics – Positive
- capable leader – Key by 40% (+8%)
- good in a crisis – Key by 29% (+5%)
- sound judgement – Key by 28% (+8%)
- honest – Key by 29% (+16%)
- down to earth – Key by 18% (+9%)
- understands economic problems – Key by 30% (+8%)
- has a lot of personality – Key by 46% (+19%)
- in touch with Maori – Key by 6% (+4%)
Leadership Characteristics – Negative
- more style than substance – Key by 8% (-2%)
- talk down to people – Goff by 7% (-4%)
- narrow minded – Goff by 10% (-2%)
- inflexible – Goff by 9% (-2%)
- inexperienced – Key by 19% (-3%)
- out of touch – Goff by 7% (+4%)
Economy
- 54% said impact of recession has been what they expected
- 30% say it was better than expected
- 14% worse than expected
- 2% don’t know
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