Labour ranked ahead of National on the top five issues: inflation, health, petrol prices, the economy and unemployment.
Some of these issues have been growing in importance since the last poll in September.
Petrol prices have shot up to the third most important issue, having been fifth in the last poll. Concern about healthcare has risen with 45% rating it as a top issue, the highest level of concern since the survey began in 2018.
Labour has increased its lead on the issue of inflation, with 38% of voters favouring Labour on the issue, up from 31% in the last poll. This compares with 24% from National up from 21% in the last poll.
Meanwhile, 64% of voters rank inflation as a top issue.
Labour leads National on the issues of managing the economy and taxation, both traditionally National’s strong points.
Labour’s ranking on the economy is 34%, up from 30%. National polled 29% as the most-trusted party on the economy, up a point.
Labour rose four points to 32% on the issue of taxation, ahead of National who polled 26%, up one point.
Despite National putting taxation at the centre of their campaign, just 6% of voters ranked it as a top issue, down two points.
Voters ranked the Government’s performance at just 4.1 out of 10, which was unchanged since the last poll and up on the low of 3.8 recorded last October.
Voters have never ranked this Government’s competence above 5 and overall confidence in Government has been on the slide since a high of 7.5 in May of 2020, during the pandemic.
The poll comes as the election campaign enters its final week.
With early voting numbers tracking well above the 2023 election, many voters have already made up their minds.