Labour has inched further ahead of National in the latest Taxpayers’ Union-Curia Poll, with the opposition party gaining ground while the governing party records a notable drop in support, shifting the projected balance of Parliament back toward the centre-left.
The poll places Labour at 34.4 percent, up 0.3 points from February, while National falls 2.9 points to 28.4 percent. The Greens also made a slight gain, rising 0.2 points to 10.5 percent, while New Zealand First slipped 0.8 points to 9.7 percent. ACT increased its support by 0.8 points to 7.5 percent, and Te Pāti Māori edged up 0.3 points to 3.2 percent.
Among smaller parties, TOP rose to 1.9 percent, NZ Outdoors and Freedom reached 1.7 percent, Vision NZ dropped to 0.2 percent, and New Conservatives climbed to 0.8 percent.
Seat projections indicate the centre-left bloc now holds 61 seats, up one from the previous poll, while the centre-right falls to 59 seats. On those numbers, Labour, the Greens, and Te Pāti Māori would be in a position to form a government.
Labour’s projected representation increases by one seat to 44, while National drops three seats to 36. Both the Greens and New Zealand First remain on 13 seats each. ACT rises two seats to 10, while Te Pāti Māori stays on four seats.
The result marks a shift from the February poll, which pointed to a hung Parliament, and reinforces how narrow the contest remains heading toward the next election.
The survey also tested public confidence in policy management. National continued to lead on economic management and government spending, but Labour was ahead on health, poverty, inflation, education, safety, housing, environmental issues, and on the question of which party voters trusted more not to raise taxes.
Taxpayers’ Union spokesman James Ross said the latest figures showed the race remained extremely tight.
“Yet again, this poll confirms that the election race is as close as it can be,” Ross said.
He added that National should be concerned by Labour’s growing strength on issues where the government would traditionally expect stronger support, particularly taxation.
“The Government ought to be concerned with the issues Labour now lead on. It will shock National’s election strategists that more voters are picking Labour as more trusted ‘not to put up your taxes’.”
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Agree with you there. They could get in too, were it not for the corrupt globalist parties 5% threshold. Someone needs raise this as an issue of fundamental democracy, its basically “vote theft”.
Sadly, by playing the game you are supporting the corrupt two party system. I’m not sure how to change the corrupt fake democracy system, but until a majority refuse to support it it will remain in place.
I suspect we could be heading into a time of tribulation (in the meaning of the word sense, not the biblical sense), and that would be an opportunity for change – if the technocrats don’t beat everyone to it.
Kiwi voters are waking up.to the corruption at the beehive.
I was surprised Luxon joined the Willis lead corruption but the “bought” NZ media reporting Luxon’s imminent demise, quoting the most corrupt and obtuse minister in parliament, Nicola Willis; is a clue that Luxon is pushing back against the great NZ taxpayer fraud!
Are Nicola Wilis’ dad and his mates at Ben Gully the NZ version of the Epstein clique?
NZ needs a new credible centre right party which will start by identifying tax payer money laundering schemes, conduct a forensic audit of all government spending and ex MPs income, and prosecute recipients (particularly recipients of $20m gifts from the Epstein cloaked Gates family)..
Here are a few obvious leads.
Who owns and benefits from the road cone companies? Bizarrely Brooke Van Velden can’t manage to remove one of the millions of unnecessary road cones on nz streets?
Who (besides Ardern) received tax payers $74.4b from the fraudulent covid spend?
Who owns and profits from the millions spent on government contractors, the numbers of which mysteriously ramp up under h clark managed / advised labour governments.
Where do the mysterious Maori grants end up, particularly $10m the h Clark advised Ardern government gave to the maori queen for no particular reason, and the ridiculous $48m the h clark advised Willis gave to a kapa haka tournament already running a profit?
Which MP family members received lucrative government contracts?
Which MPs are benefiting from the nz electricity cartels? I heard a rumour John Key owns NZ electricity generation.
Which MPs are benefiting from the Aussie banking cartel? I read John Key was given a lucrative ANZ board chairmanship when he left politics.
Who besides Mike Hosking and Kris Faafoi are benefiting from the insurance cartels mega profits?
How much of the ridiculous $665m the Helen Clark government paid for the loss making KiwiRail made its way into the H Clark foundation and Michael “I’m now a rich prick” Cullen’s bank accounts?
To my way of thinking a direct democratic system similar to the Swiss system would be best. Most issues are put to a referendum and decided by the results of the votes of the citizens.
The political party system inevitably devolves to party politics where the politics of the party overwhelm everything else.
Most English speaking countries have exactly the same two-horse race bull-shit political system – they love small parties because it reinforces the party political system which they have rigged for their total control. It’ll take a big fail to change the system, and hopefully that big fail happens sooner rather than later.
I agree Tom
Making taxpayers the upper house of the NZ governement is a wonderful idea.
The first step towards a corruption fighting political system is to elect an honest centre right party.to implement yjsle Swiss system.
Then watch Nicola Willis Dad fume as…
1.no-one would vote for a $1b gas terminal 2 independent reports state is too expensive.
2. Noone will vote to give $1b tax funded infrastructure to the price colluding electricity cartel.
3. Noone will vote to give $48m to a kapahaka tournament alreafy generating profits.
4. Noone will vote to reject 8/10 recommendations to fix the electricity cartel.
5. Noone will vote to allow the grocery cartel to block competitors from setting up in NZ through ownership of the wholesale fresh food markets.
Etc.
its a nice Idea for the sovereign folk to think the system breaks if we dont vote .. 1. The “Plurality Rules” Principle
In New Zealand’s Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) system, there is no minimum turnout threshold required for an election to be valid.
If only 10% of the population votes, the seats in Parliament are still allocated based on the percentages of that 10%.
The system doesn’t “break”; it simply becomes hyper-responsive to the small group that did show up. The parties elected still hold full legal authority to pass laws, set budgets, and manage the country.
Its an unfortunate misconception that not voting will bring it all crashing down
NZ needs a new credible centre right party with clever leaders who steer clear of advocatingbfornthe legalization of a brain destroying drug.
It doesnt take long to.identify marijuana smoking employees; their cognitive ability, problem solving ability, and memory; are shot.
The “sovereign” folks have been led down a similar but slightly different path to the “party” folks. Both serve the interests of the incumbents, and both paths indicate the followers are incapable of thinking outside of the parameters set for them during their indoctrination period at school and via media channels like the television.
Sorry, I can’t vote for you. Your sister dobbed me in for eating a passion-fruit overhanging the playground at primary school.
Great to hear and see Ally, but in all fairness;
WHERE IS THE NEW ZEALAND LOYAL PARTY IN ALL OF THIS???
Disenfranchised as usual by the MSM…
https://nzloyal.com/
we are all disenfranchised by Mainstream media ! the best thing that can happen is people get guts and vote for the small parties. People that are sovereign and dont vote realise that they wont break the system by not voting . ie The “Plurality Rules” Principle In New Zealand’s Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) system, there is no minimum turnout threshold required for an election to be valid.If only 10% of the population votes, the seats in Parliament are still allocated based on the percentages of that 10%.
The system doesn’t “break”; it simply becomes hyper-responsive to the small group that did show up. The parties elected still hold full legal authority to pass laws, set budgets, and manage the country.
IMO the best thing would be for as many to turn away from the two major parties as possible and get the small parties in then we would have a good mix of people in parliament
IMO the best thing would be for the little parties to suck up their ego and UNITE in ONE “get them out of parliament” party.
THEN the People will have the guts to vote for the small parties.
And these People who vote for that conglomerate are highly aware of where the (missed) allegiances come from, who opposed them, with what arguments and then We The People will decide on who deserves our votes. We The People are the sovereign, NEVER forget that!
Then, a few years down the parliamentary debate, the People can make up their mind as to whom they support.
Before that milestone is reached, anybody NOT pulling in this direction will be (not even) history.
At first sight, that is a really depressing poll.
But then it dawns on the reader that it’s a poll about the sh*t-show going down in the beehive.
That show is a hijacked leaky boat, the command deck occupied by traitors.
The next REAL poll will be the nekt election.
Hope that NZ Loyal is then included as sadly the only alternative to the above show.
Yawn. Uni-party polls for a fake democracy.
Can’t even manage one term without fucking it up.Now we get more woke tyranny as an alternative. Just watch as hate speech laws roll in, accompanied by COVID “no jab no life” medical care, Australia style plus extra taxes like CGT (which is a total shit show, just look at Australia and elsewhere) to fund all the authoritarianism and squander.
Where are these polls taken? Outside winz?
According to the stats put out by the Taxpayers Union just 1,000 voters across New Zealand were surveyed. Of that number only 919 considered themselves as decided voters. I wouldn’t place too much faith in any poll that targeted such a small number of the population. However, Luxon should be concerned for his immediate future in politics.
Left cheek overtakes right cheek for a slim lead.
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Absolute Muppets on both wings of the mental institution.
💯 agreed whole heartily!
This is just to deflect attention from the Paddy Gower apology show, right? You know, the dude who pranced around every night on the TV Covid show and hoodwinked everyone into getting jabs, now he’s trying to apologise.
We will NOT deal with another Covid Labour Government headed by Chippy and his threats to ‘hunt-down the non-vaccinated’!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOcpMxENXbA
Nazional in deeply infiltrated with Global Zionists, and WEF operatives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHUzu9DRZ28
I am surprised Hipkins is still leader.
Have the public forgotten what Hipkins did during Covid. Assaulting peacefully sleeping protesters at parliament. Not fronting up to the enquiry.
Correct. Hipkins never won any elections. Every title he’s ever held, he was “appointed” to
Everyone take a copy of this video and play it loud far and wide.
How can people forget what those labour idiots did to this country
I cant believe anyone would vote for TOP, a party thats main policy is tax, on land, who are behind these bandits?
Cat-hating Gareth Morgan…
When a person abuses an animal (or speaks ill of the same…) then the psychopathic behaviours indicate that people will be next!
“Once you give power over to a charlatan, you almost never get it back!” – Dr Carl Sagan
I honestly think they are controlled opposition .. from the left they are the medias darlings right now . We are ignored by the msm and hey they got 1.9 and we got 1.7 in the last poll . So all the MSM still didnt help them that much Gareth Morgan is no longer involved