As for the party vote, National remains steady on 34%, two points higher than Labour, down 1% to 32%. <\/p>\n
The Green Party is up 1% to 11%. <\/p>\n
NZ First and Act both remain steady on 9% and 8%, respectively. Meanwhile, Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori is on 3%, down one point. <\/p>\n
Based on these numbers, National would score 42 seats \u2013 down seven \u2013 while Labour would have 40 seats in Parliament, up six. <\/p>\n
The Green Party would get 14, NZ First would have 12 seats and Act would have nine.<\/p>\n
Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori would retain their six MPs. <\/p>\n
The 1News Verian poll surveyed 1014 eligible voters from October 4 to October 8.<\/p>\n
It comes after a Taxpayers\u2019 Union-Curia poll last week put National below 30% and Opposition parties able to form a government. <\/p>\n
The previous 1News Verian poll in August had National leading at 34% with Labour close behind on 33%. The Green Party was third with 10%, NZ First at 9%, Act on 8% and Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori on 4%. <\/p>\n
In last week\u2019s Taxpayers\u2019 Union-Curia poll conducted between October 1-5, National came in at 29.6, having dropped 3.5 points on the polling outfit\u2019s previous poll. <\/p>\n
Labour held the biggest share of support with 31.2%, even after dropping 2.6 points. <\/p>\n
NZ First gained 2.5 points to reach 10.6%. Act dropped slightly, by 0.1, to 6.6%.<\/p>\n
The Green Party jumped 1.3 points to reach 12%, and Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori moved up by 0.1 to 4.4%.<\/p>\n
Translating these results into seats in the House, the centre-left bloc would have 61 seats, enough to govern, while the centre-right would have 59.<\/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":"As for the party vote, National remains steady on 34%, two points higher than Labour, down 1% to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[58799,95,12796,3276,16426,38402,28157,2082,305,13480,78,6721,700,13489,16427,6722,117,111,43,139,69,18154,13027,415,3109,10465,58800],"class_list":["post-75075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-1news","tag-and","tag-approval","tag-chris","tag-christopher","tag-drop","tag-dropped","tag-for","tag-have","tag-hipkins","tag-in","tag-labour","tag-latest","tag-leader","tag-luxon","tag-minister","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-political","tag-poll","tag-prime","tag-public","tag-ratings","tag-verian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75075","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=75075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}