Based on these numbers, the coalition of National, Act and NZ First would gather 59 seats between them if an election was held when polling took place. <\/p>\n
The bloc of Labour, the Green Party, Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori and Opportunity would trump that with 65 seats. The poll also showed these results would lead to an overhang of four seats above the normal 120. <\/p>\n
That is based on Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori holding its four seats and Mariameno Kapa-Kingi, running for her freshly launched Te Tai Tokerau Party, retaining the Te Tai Tokerau seat. <\/p>\n
The 1News Verian poll results are collected through mobile and online panels. The poll had a sample of 1004 eligible voters, with a maximum sampling error of about \u00b13.4% at the 95% confidence level.<\/p>\n
Preferred PM <\/p>\n
In the preferred Prime Minister rankings, Christopher Luxon was on top \u2013 up two points to 19%. <\/p>\n
Chris Hipkins was down a point to 14%, while Green co-leader Chl\u00f6e Swarbrick jumped two points to 8%. NZ First leader Winston Peters remained steady on 7% and Act leader David Seymour was also on 7%, up two points. <\/p>\n
The results come after Labour and National kicked off their election campaigns in Auckland on Sunday. At the International Convention Centre in Auckland Central, National continued its rallying cry of \u201cno new taxes\u201d and claims the left bloc would introduce \u201cnine new taxes\u201d.<\/p>\n
At the Due Drop Event Centre in Manukau, Hipkins dismissed National\u2019s tax attack campaign as \u201cbulls***\u201d and his party unveiled a new cost-of-living policy \u2013 wiping 10% of student loan debt for those who didn\u2019t benefit from Labour\u2019s previous fees-free policy. <\/p>\n
In the previous 1News Verian poll, carried out between August 8 and 11, the Opportunity Party cleared the 5% threshold for the first time to score 8%. <\/p>\n
Labour was down two points to 30%, National was steady on 29%, the Green Party was down a point to 12%, and Act rose three points to 9%. <\/p>\n
NZ First was on 8%, a three-point drop, and Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori was down one point to 1%. <\/p>\n
Julia Gabel is a Wellington-based political reporter. She joined the Herald in 2020 and has most recently focused on data journalism. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Based on these numbers, the coalition of National, Act and NZ First would gather 59 seats between them…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[58799,2246,242039,7230,124,5903,57024,2518,14236,2959,78,302400,101,111,43,139,69,6452,58832,4762,13027,1974,30947,21938,61,1865,58800],"class_list":["post-614074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-1news","tag-2246","tag-bloc","tag-coalition","tag-could","tag-election","tag-govern","tag-green","tag-held","tag-high","tag-in","tag-labourled","tag-left","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-opportunity","tag-opted","tag-party","tag-poll","tag-record","tag-suggests","tag-surges","tag-to","tag-today","tag-verian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614074","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=614074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}