Labour ranked ahead of National on the top five issues: inflation, health, petrol prices, the economy and unemployment.<\/p>\n
Some of these issues have been growing in importance since the last poll in September.<\/p>\n
Petrol prices have shot up to the third most important issue, having been fifth in the last poll. Concern about healthcare has risen with 45% rating it as a top issue, the highest level of concern since the survey began in 2018.<\/p>\n
Labour has increased its lead on the issue of inflation, with 38% of voters favouring Labour on the issue, up from 31% in the last poll. This compares with 24% from National up from 21% in the last poll.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, 64% of voters rank inflation as a top issue.<\/p>\n
Labour leads National on the issues of managing the economy and taxation, both traditionally National\u2019s strong points.<\/p>\n
Labour\u2019s ranking on the economy is 34%, up from 30%. National polled 29% as the most-trusted party on the economy, up a point.<\/p>\n
Labour rose four points to 32% on the issue of taxation, ahead of National who polled 26%, up one point.<\/p>\n
Despite National putting taxation at the centre of their campaign, just 6% of voters ranked it as a top issue, down two points.<\/p>\n
Voters ranked the Government\u2019s performance at just 4.1 out of 10, which was unchanged since the last poll and up on the low of 3.8 recorded last October.<\/p>\n
Voters have never ranked this Government\u2019s competence above 5 and overall confidence in Government has been on the slide since a high of 7.5 in May of 2020, during the pandemic.<\/p>\n
The poll comes as the election campaign enters its final week.<\/p>\n
With early voting numbers tracking well above the 2023 election, many voters have already made up their minds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labour ranked ahead of National on the top five issues: inflation, health, petrol prices, the economy and unemployment.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2246,15408,1863,9442,5903,14768,83644,76,6721,661,9554,49834,23126,3556,111,43,139,69,1523,13109,131,61,3010,85539,24687,102],"class_list":["post-648021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-2246","tag-almost","tag-back","tag-better","tag-election","tag-every","tag-increasing","tag-issue","tag-labour","tag-major","tag-manage","tag-margin","tag-matters","tag-national","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-several","tag-than","tag-to","tag-top","tag-trusted","tag-voters","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648021","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=648021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}