{"id":387717,"date":"2026-04-19T20:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T20:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/387717\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T20:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T20:33:08","slug":"live-politicians-react-as-latest-poll-shows-national-unable-to-govern-if-election-held-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/387717\/","title":{"rendered":"Live: Politicians react as latest poll shows National unable to govern if election held today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/political\/592799\/poll-result-national-falls-in-favour-coalition-count-lower-than-left-bloc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new poll showing National sitting on just 30 percent<\/a>, and the coalition unable to govern, has set the stage for a crucial week in Christopher Luxon&#8217;s primeministership.<\/p>\n<p>This result is National&#8217;s worst in the 1News-Verian poll since Luxon became leader in November 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Labour is up five points on 37 percent, while National&#8217;s 30 is down four points since February.<\/p>\n<p>For the other parties in the coalition, New Zealand First is steady on 10 percent, while Act has dropped two points to nine.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the house the Greens and Te Pati Maori are on 11 and two, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>It gives the centre-left bloc of Labour, the Greens and Te Pati Maori the seats needed to govern with 66 compared to the coalition&#8217;s 58, if an election was held today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4JQT4W0_260402_Cabinet_Reshuffle_6_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Christopher Luxon\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPrime Minister Christopher Luxon<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Samuel Rillstone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new poll showing National sitting on just 30 percent, and the coalition unable to govern, has set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-387717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387717","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=387717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}