A new poll shows the National Party climbing its way out of the low 30s and closing the gap on Labour – but not catching them.
The latest monthly poll from the Right-wing Taxpayers Union, conducted by National’s private pollster Curia, has the Labour Party up 1.1 to 42.3 per cent party vote support.
National surged up 5.4 percentage points to 38.4 per cent support.
Both ACT and the Greens dropped – the Greens down 4.4 to 6.3 per cent and ACT down 4.9 to 6.6 per cent.
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In terms of possible governing blocs, the Greens’ drop more than made up for Labour’s slight boost, while ACT’s drop blunted the larger boost for National.
That meant the gap between the Left bloc of Labour and the Greens and the Right bloc of National and ACT shrank, from nine seats in January to five in February.
Labour and the Greens remained ahead however and would govern on the results of this poll – with Labour’s 54 seats and the Greens’ eight seats taking them over the 61-seat line.
National’s 49 seats and ACT’s eight seats would not get them to 61 seats.
The poll showed a boost for National Party leader Christopher Luxon in the preferred prime minister stakes too, up 10.1 percentage points to 28.5 per cent.
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