Wednesday, September 30, 2026

National and Labour sink below 30% in Taxpayers’ Union-Curia poll

Taxpayers' Union poll
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Both Labour and National have slipped below 30 percent in the latest Taxpayers’ Union-Curia poll.

Labour dropped 1.9 points to 25.9 percent, its weakest showing in this poll since July 2024, while National declined two points to 29 percent. Opportunity fell from 6.1 to 4.5 percent, leaving it without seats under the poll’s projections.

The Greens surged 3.8 points to 13.9 percent and ACT climbed 3.2 points to 10.5 percent, while NZ First eased to 8.4 percent and Te Pāti Māori rose to 2 percent.

On the projected numbers, National, ACT and NZ First would command 64 seats against 56 for Labour, the Greens and Te Pāti Māori. Christopher Luxon remained the preferred prime minister on 21.2 percent, ahead of Chris Hipkins on 16.9 percent, although support for both leaders declined.

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17 COMMENTS

  1. Political polls are fake. Polling always has and always will be fake; as they can never be verified.

    They are utilized to sway, persuade and manipulate public perception prior to elections.

  2. Its the National and Labour voting for the Under 16 ban on social media.

    However, in reality everyone who has social media will need to disclose who they are.

    That will limit the freedom of speech.

    It will also under-mind the sprit of the coalition and the trust in both major parties.

  3. Hard to say what this amounts to, as there is always a margin of error. A margin that’s bigger than most polls might typically suggest. That being said, I do hope people have finally started waking up to who is behind NZ’s traumatic decline since the mid 1980’s. Will people finally stop voting for more of the same. and worse with proxy Digital Id’s, Gene Tech, more GMO food, environmental decay, crippling taxation and more just over the horizon? I hope so, because there’s really not a lot of good reasons left to stay here anymore.

    • We have all has a guts ache with National, Labour & Act. The definition of insanity is repeating the same action while hoping for a different outcome. Something needs to change the NZ voter!

  4. The party political system is the problem – not the solution.
    Direct Democracy, where the voters make the decisions is a viable option that works. If you support any of party politics political parties you will just get more of the same.
    But maybe you like sitting at home complaining. The party political system will give you plenty to complain about no matter who is (s)elected.

  5. New Labour not Old Labour
    Which was founded as a result of the Blackball miners strike over the right to a half hour meal break in 1908
    Incidentally which is where the terminology “crib” originated from
    That miners taking time out “illegally” were “cribbing” on the company
    Resembles nothing of what constitutes this freak show we are left with today
    Labour finds itself in a quandary of quicksand
    Damned if it does and damned if it doesn’t
    In ditching the toxic Chris Hipkins with his trainload of baggage and replacing him
    Or chaining themselves to the ships compass and going down with him irrespective
    In any case who would care
    Every negro baggage handler on the US railways used to be called George
    Could we affectionately refer to Chris Hipkins as George?
    Wouldn’t it be terrible if a name like that stuck especially coming up to an election?
    I like it!

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