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September 5, 2011 at 7:31 pm · Filed under NZ Issues Polls, NZ Political Party Polls ·Tagged 3 News, asset sales, Capital Gains Tax, CGT, Leader Ratings, privatisation, Reid Research, TV3
Polling Company: Reid Research
Poll Method: Random Phone
Poll Size: assumed 1,000 respondents (3.2% maximum margin of error)
Dates: assumed 13 August to 17 August 2011
Client: 3 News
Report:
Party Support
- National 54.0% (-1.1%)
- Labour 28.8% (-1.1%)
- Green 9.3% (+0.2%)
- ACT 2.2% (+0.5%)
- Maori 1.5% (+0.7%)
- United Future 0.0% (nc)
- Mana 0.9% (+0.2%)
- NZ First 2.2% (nc)
Projected Seats
- National 67
- Labour 36
- Green 11
- ACT 3
- Maori 4
- United Future 1
- Mana 1
- NZ First 0
- Total 123
This is based on Maori Party winning four electorate seats, Mana, ACT and United Future one each and Labour winning Wigram.
Coalition Options
- CR – National 67 + ACT 3 + United Future 1 = 71/124 – 9 more than minimum 63 needed to govern
- CL – Labour 36 + Greens 11 + Mana 1 = 48/124 -14 less than minimum 63 needed to govern
The Maori Party is not shown as part of the centre-right or centre-left.
Preferred PM
- Key 53% (+2.5%)
- Goff 8% (+1.1%)
Leadership Approval
- Key – 74.9% (+2.8%) doing well vs 14.5% (+0.6%) doing poorly – net positive is 60.4% (+2.2%)
- Goff – 26.1% (+1.8%) doing well vs 52.5% (+2.7%) doing poorly – net positive is -26.4% (-0.9%)
Policy Preference
- 53% prefer a capital gains tax while 31% preferred partial asset sales
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July 31, 2011 at 8:22 pm · Filed under NZ Issues Polls, NZ Political Party Polls ·Tagged Afghanistan, asset sales, Capital Gains Tax, Country Direction, debt, Digipoll, Maori, NZ Herald, NZ Political Party Polls, Preferred PM, privatisation, SAS, women
Polling Company: DigiPoll
Poll Method: Random Phone
Undecideds: 11.2%
Poll Size: 750 respondents, of whom 666 had a party vote preference
Dates: 19 to 27 July 2011
Client: NZ Herald
Report: NZ Herald
Party Support
- National 52.3% (+1.1%)
- Labour 33.1% (-3.0%)
- Green 8.3% (+1.7%)
- NZ First 0.9% (-0.3%)
- Maori 2.0% (+0.3%)
- United Future 0.0% (nc)
- ACT 1.4% (-0.5%)
- Mana 0.6% (+0.1%)
Projected Seats
- National 64
- Labour 41
- Green 10
- Maori 4
- United Future 1
- ACT 2
- Mana 1
- Total 123
This is based on Maori Party winning four electorate seats and ACT, United Future and Mana one each.
Coalition Options
- CR – National 64 + ACT 2 + United Future 1 = 67/124 – 5 more than minimum needed to govern
- CL – Labour 41 + Greens 10 + Mana 1 = 52/124 -10 less than minimum needed to govern
The Maori Party is not shown as part of the centre-right or centre-left.
Preferred PM
- Key 70.3% (-0.3%)
- Goff 9.3% (-2.6%)
- Peters 2.9% (-2.5%)
- Clark 7.9% (+3.8%)
Direction
- Right 57.5%
- Wrong 33.8%
- Unsure 8.7%
Capital Gains Tax
- Strongly favour 16.5%
- Moderately favour 21.4%
- No opinion 22.8%
- Moderately against 16%
- Strongly against 21.5%
- More likely to vote Labour 22.1%
- Less likely to vote Labour 14.4%
- No difference 61.3%
Asset Sales
- Strongly favour 7.2%
- Moderately favour 19.8%
- No opinion 15.5%
- Moderately against 22.1%
- Strongly against 34.5%
Debt Repayment Preferences
- CGT 43.1%
- Asset part-sales 34.4%
SAS in Afghanistan
- Remain beyond March 2012 23.1%
- Withdraw as scheduled 63.3%
Maori
- Too much say 42.2%
- Too little say 13.2%
- About the right amount 39.8%
Women paid less because they are women
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June 20, 2010 at 7:23 pm · Filed under NZ Issues Polls, NZ Political Party Polls ·Tagged asset sales, Economy, Leader Ratings, NZ Political Party Polls, Preferred PM, privatisation, Reid Research, TV3
Polling Company: Reid Research
Poll Method: Random Phone
Poll Size: 1,000 respondents, of whom 880 have a party preference, (3.2% maximum margin of error)
Dates: 8 June to 15 June 2010
Client: TV3
Report: TV3
Party Support
- National 55.3% (+3.2%)
- Labour 30.5% (-3.3%)
- Green 7.5% (-0.7%)
- ACT 1.6% (nc)
- Maori 1.9% (nc)
- United Future 0.1% (-0.4%)
- Progressive 0.0% (-0.1%)
- NZ First 1.8% (+0.3%)
Projected Seats
- National 69
- Labour 38
- Green 9
- ACT 2
- Maori 5
- United Future 1
- Progressive 0
- NZ First 0
- Total 124
This is based on Maori Party winning five electorate seats, ACT and United Future one each and Labour winning Wigram.
Coalition Options
- CR – National 69 + ACT 2 + United Future 1 = 72/124 – 9 more than minimum needed to govern
- CL – Labour 38 + Greens 9 = 47/124 -16 less than minimum needed to govern
The Maori Party is not shown as part of the centre-right or centre-left.
Preferred PM
- Key 49.6% (+0.4%)
- Clark 4.9% (+1.2%)
- Goff 5.1% (-2.4%)
- Peters ?
Leadership Approval
- Key – 69.0% (+0.2%) doing well vs 15.9% (-0.5%) doing poorly – net positive is 53.1% (+0.7%)
- Goff – 27.2% (-6.9%) doing well vs 45.4% (+3.9%) doing poorly – net positive is -18.2% (-10.8%)
Leadership Characteristics – Positive
- honest – Key by 20% (-6%)
- down to earth – Key by 12% (-5%)
- understands econ problems – Key by 23% (-2%)
- has personality – Key by 46% (+4%)
- in touch with Maori – Key by 5% (-9%)
Leadership Characteristics – Negative
- inexperienced – Key by 13% (-2%)
- out of touch – Key by 4% (+1%)
Asset Sales
- 85% say Govt should not sell Kiwibank, 9% say sell
- 53.5% believe National will try and sell Kiwibank if they win a second term, 29.5% think they won’t
- 80% say no the sale of any state assets, with only 12% supporting sale
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September 14, 2009 at 9:20 pm · Filed under NZ Issues Polls ·Tagged Auckland, privatisation, UMR
UMR did a poll of 240 Aucklanders from 13 to 17 August 2009 on the role of the new Auckland Council. Findings:
- 26% want Council to do core services only, while 67% want other services provided.
- Strong opposition to asset sales, specifically 78% against transport facilities such as the port and airport being sold, 82% against parks, libraries, rec facilities being sold, 85% against water supplies being sold
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