Responding to the August poll, Hipkins said his party was \u201cnot focused on rogue polls\u201d and was \u201cbusy fighting for a country where everyone has the chance to build a better future\u201d.<\/p>\n
However, responding to today\u2019s poll, Hipkins did not describe the results as \u201crogue\u201d and instead said, \u201cpolls move around\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m focused on Labour\u2019s plan to invest in what matters so Kiwis can get ahead.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of work to do between now and the election, and we\u2019re getting on with it. We\u2019ve announced some great policy focused on supporting Kiwis with the cost of living and investing in our health system.\u201d<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s poll had National with the largest share of support but still below 30%, dropping two percentage points from last month\u2019s poll to 29%. <\/p>\n
The Green Party had received a significant boost of 3.8 points to reach 13.9%. Act had also jumped 3.2 points to 10.5%. New Zealand First had dropped by 0.7 points to 8.4% while Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori had gained 0.5 points to 2%. <\/p>\n
Opportunity, which had surpassed 5% in several recent mainstream polls, had fallen below that threshold to 4.5%, a drop of 1.6 points. <\/p>\n
Those numbers translated to National losing one seat in the House to 39 seats when compared to last month\u2019s poll. Labour had also lost one seat to 35. <\/p>\n
The Green Party had gained five to reach 18 seats, Act was up five to 14, NZ First was down one to 11 and Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori up one to three seats. <\/p>\n
Given Opportunity had not met the 5% threshold, the eight seats the party had in last month\u2019s poll were gone.<\/p>\n
That seat allocation meant the current coalition parties had 64 seats between them, up three from last month and enough to hold a majority in the House. <\/p>\n
The \u201cOpposition bloc\u201d, a combination of Labour, the Greens, Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori and Opportunity, had dropped three seats to 56. <\/p>\n
In the preferred Prime Minister ratings, both the National and Labour leaders had fallen with Christopher Luxon dropping two points to 21.2% but still ahead of Chris Hipkins, who had dropped 2.9 points to 16.9%.<\/p>\n
Adam Pearse is the Deputy Political Editor and part of the NZ Herald\u2019s Press Gallery team based at Parliament in Wellington. He has worked for NZME since 2018, reporting for the Northern Advocate in Whang\u0101rei and the Herald in Auckland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Responding to the August poll, Hipkins said his party was \u201cnot focused on rogue polls\u201d and was \u201cbusy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[291919,132857,665,5842,3276,3054,3602,5504,71,42,13480,6721,27699,700,13489,2683,43,3591,4762,13027,3430,173695,49478,291918,241641,12229,130623,35028,1361,40,38,41,39,90054],"class_list":["post-592520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-291919","tag-accepting","tag-around","tag-calling","tag-chris","tag-criticism","tag-earlier","tag-following","tag-from","tag-headlines","tag-hipkins","tag-labour","tag-labours","tag-latest","tag-leader","tag-move","tag-news","tag-numbers","tag-party","tag-poll","tag-polls","tag-pollsters","tag-receiving","tag-refrains","tag-repeating","tag-result","tag-rogue","tag-taxpayers","tag-that","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-unioncuria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592520","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=592520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}