A One News Colmar Brunton poll of around 500 respondents found:
Given a list of five Labour MPs, the support for each was:
Polling Company: Ipsos
Poll Method: Random Phone
Poll Size: 1,011 of whom xxx have a party preference
Undecideds: 17.2%
Dates: 10 August 2013 to 15 August 2013
Client: Fairfax
Report: Stuff
Party Support
Projected Seats
This is based on no change in electorate seats.
Coalition Options
On this poll a centre-right government would be formed.
Country Direction
GCSB
House Affordability
Leader Trust
The Nation reports:
More than a third of New Zealanders would support the reintroduction of the death penalty.
In a Curia poll for TV3’s “The Nation” of 624 respondents, 38 per cent were in favour of the death penalty, 55 per cent were against it, and 7 per cent were undecided.
35 per cent of Labour voters favoured the death penalty and National voters polled at 44 per cent. Least likely to be in favour were Green Party voters at 19 per cent, but the most in favour of capital punishment were New Zealand First voters at 84 per cent.
UMR polled 1,000 NZers on cannabis and synthetic cannabis:
Polling Company: Roy Morgan Research
Poll Method: Random Phone
Poll Size: 919 of whom 878 have a party preference
Undecideds: 4.5%
Dates: 29 July 2013 to 11 August 2013
Client: Self Published
Report: Roy Morgan
Party Support
Projected Seats
This is based on no change in electorate seats.
Coalition Options
On this poll there would be a centre-left government.
Country Direction
Radio Live report:
The latest UMR research poll indicates a strong majority for Len Brown in the upcoming Mayoral election – the current Mayor sitting on a cool 47 percent of the total vote, 66 percent of the decided vote.
New challenger John Palino is in second place, with 14 percent of the total vote and 20 percent of the decided vote. MANA Party secretary John Minto is third, with five and seven percent respectively.
NewstalkZB reports:
A Newstalk ZB Media Research poll released today shows at this stage it’s a fight between incumbent mayor Celia Wade-Brown and councillor John Morrison for the Wellington mayoralty.
Wade-Brown has 31.67% of popular support to continue as mayor, while Morrison is close behind with 25.22%. Jack Yan came in a distant third with 4.15%.
A significant 28.38% of the electorate remains undecided.
Research NZ asked 500 New Zealanders:
In the past the Government Communication Security Bureau, the GCSB, has not been permitted to monitor New Zealand residents. A law comes into force shortly that will allow the GCSB to monitor New Zealand residents as well as non-residents.
Are you in favour or not in favour of the GCSB being allowed to do this?
The results were:
ResearchNZ asked 1,000 NZers to rate on a 0 to 10 scale if they trusted certain professions. The percentages who gave an eight or higher was:
Polling Company: Colmar Brunton
Poll Method: Random Phone
Poll Size: 1,006 respondents of whom 862 had a voting preference
Undecideds: Dates: estimate 27 July to 31 July 2013
Client: One News
Report: Colmar Brunton
Party Support
Projected Seats
This is based on no change in electorate seats.
Coalition Options
The Maori Party would hold the balance of power.
Preferred PM
Next National Leader
Economic Outlook
Meridian share float
GST on international purchases
Foreign property buyers
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