{"id":635635,"date":"2026-10-19T21:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T21:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/635635\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T21:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T21:14:09","slug":"greens-on-course-to-pick-up-first-maori-electorate-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/635635\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens on course to pick up first M\u0101ori electorate – poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

Undecided voters made up 22%. <\/p>\n

Labour was ahead in the party vote on 32%, followed by the Greens on 29%, Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori, 1% and NZ First, 7%.<\/p>\n

National polled 5% and Act 1%. <\/p>\n

Te Tai Tokerau had been picked as one of this election\u2019s most exciting races after Kapa-Kingi fell out with Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori and opted to run as an independent. <\/p>\n

With Labour and the Greens also running competitive campaigns, the race is one of the few genuine four-way contests.<\/p>\n

The Greens hold three general electorates but have never won a M\u0101ori electorate. <\/p>\n

Cost of living was the most important issue in the electorate, with 34% of voters telling the poll it was their top concern; housing was next on 14%, followed by health on 9%.<\/p>\n

Kapa-Kingi had done a good job, reckoned 40%, while 14% said she had been poor and 27% said average.<\/p>\n

The poll was between October 5 and October 15. It took in 500 respondents, giving it a margin of error of 4.5%. <\/p>\n

The results of the poll will be put to candidates during the Te Tai Tonga electorate debate tonight. The debate will be moderated by Maiki Sherman and Julian Wilcox and broadcast live on Whakaata M\u0101ori and M\u0100ORI+ at 7pm.<\/p>\n

The debate will also be streamed live through the Te Ao M\u0101ori News app, Facebook and YouTube channels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Undecided voters made up 22%. Labour was ahead in the party vote on 32%, followed by the Greens…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18478,42678,1888,23746,2720,111,43,139,69,90,15407,13027,61,810],"class_list":["post-635635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-course","tag-electorate","tag-first","tag-greens","tag-mori","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-pick","tag-poll","tag-to","tag-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635635","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=635635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}