{"id":138369,"date":"2025-11-16T20:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T20:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/138369\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T20:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T20:29:12","slug":"government-performance-rating-hits-record-low-in-latest-ipsos-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/138369\/","title":{"rendered":"Government performance rating hits record low in latest Ipsos survey"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LabourLabour is rated best able to handle seven of the top eight concerns for New Zealanders.\u00a0Photo:\u00a0IPSOS Issues Monitor (October 2025)<\/p>\n

The survey asked 1004 New Zealanders what they thought were the top three most important issues facing the country today, and which party was best able to manage them.<\/p>\n

Labour was rated best able to handle 15 of the top 20 concerns. National was rated best able on two: Crime\/law and order (5th equal), and defence\/foreign affairs (20th).<\/p>\n

\"AA chart from the IPSOS Issues Monitor showing concern about the number-one rated issue inflation\/cost of living has continued to rise since February.\u00a0Photo:\u00a0IPSOS Issues Monitor (October 2025)<\/p>\n

Labour continued to increase its lead over National as the party considered most able to handle inflation\/cost of living, which remains the top-rated issue at 61%, a 1 percentage point increase over the previous survey in August.<\/p>\n

Healthcare decreased two points but remains the second-highest concern, with Labour also increasing its lead over National on that issue – 40% of New Zealanders rating it most able, compared to National\u2019s 21%. Healthcare remained the top concern for those aged 65 and up.<\/p>\n

Labour also overtook National (33% v 29%) on the economy, which remains the third-placed concern, rising two points to 32%.<\/p>\n

Housing dropped four points as a concern, from 26% to 22%, Labour again increasing its lead over National (32% v 21%).<\/p>\n

Three issues took out the fifth-equal rated concern, with crime\/law and order dropping 3 points to 19%, putting it in line with unemployment and poverty\/inequality (both steady at 19%).<\/p>\n

Labour was rated best able to handle unemployment (39% v 22%) and poverty\/inequality (41% s 16%), while National retained pole position on crime\/law and order (30% v 25%).<\/p>\n

Labour gained 2 percentage points in handling unemployment and 6 points in handling poverty, while National dropped 1 point in handling crime.<\/p>\n

The Greens rated best on climate change (6th-highest rated issue) and environmental\/pollution\/water (10th), while Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori rated best on issues facing M\u0101ori (9th).<\/p>\n

\"AA chart showing the gap between those who think New Zealand is on the wrong track vs the right track has narrowed slightly since the previous survey. Photo: IPSOS Issues Monitor (October 2025)<\/p>\n

The gap between those who think the country is on the wrong track (63%) versus the right track (37%) narrowed by two percentage points.<\/p>\n

Results for the survey are weighted by age, gender and region, and the survey has a maximum margin of error of +\/-3.1% at a 95% confidence level.<\/p>\n

By RNZ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labour is rated best able to handle seven of the top eight concerns for New Zealanders.\u00a0Photo:\u00a0IPSOS Issues Monitor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9526,266,305,42,4508,78,66232,1452,700,17576,61386,43,6777,3109,68689,10465,20488,1974,8822,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-138369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-another","tag-government","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-hits","tag-in","tag-ipsos","tag-issues","tag-latest","tag-low","tag-monitor","tag-news","tag-performance","tag-public","tag-rating","tag-ratings","tag-reached","tag-record","tag-survey","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}