Strong Support for Key’s National Party Early in February

Friday, 3 February 2012, 1:22 pm
Press Release: Roy Morgan Research

Strong Support for Key’s National Party Early in February

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Today’s New Zealand Roy Morgan Poll shows continuing strong support for Prime Minister John Key’s National 46% (down 1% since January 3-15, 2012). Support for Key’s Coalition partners is virtually unchanged with the Maori Party 2% (up 0.5%), ACT NZ 0.5% (unchanged), and United Future 0.5% (unchanged).

Support for Labour Party has increased 3% to 30.5%, Greens 13% (down 1.5%), New Zealand First 5.5% (up 0.5%), Mana Party 0.5% (down 0.5%) and Others 1.5% (down 0.5%).

The latest New Zealand Roy Morgan Government Confidence Rating is up 0.5 points to 133 — with 61% (up 0.5%) of New Zealanders saying New Zealand is ‘heading in the right direction’ compared to 28% (unchanged) that say New Zealand is ‘heading in the wrong direction.’

Gary Morgan says:

“Today’s New Zealand Roy Morgan Poll shows Prime Minister John Key’s National Party (46%, down 1%) maintaining a strong lead over the main Opposition Labour Party (30.5%, up 3%). However, support for the full National-led Government has dipped to 49% (down 0.5%), trailing the Opposition Parties (51%, up 0.5%).
“Prime Minister Key was in Melbourne for the annual Australia-New Zealand Leader’s Meeting with Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard last weekend. The talks aim to deepen ties between the two countries and a key area of discussion this year was the increased sharing of criminal history information between the two countries.
“The next New Zealand Roy Morgan Poll will show whether Key received a positive ‘bounce’ out of these bilateral talks. Despite a strong lead over Labour, National’s support (46%) has dipped to its lowest since November 2008 (44%).”

Electors were asked: “If a New Zealand Election were held today which party would receive your party vote?”
This latest New Zealand Roy Morgan Poll on voting intention was conducted by telephone with a NZ wide cross-section of 933 electors from January 16-29, 2012. Of all electors surveyed 3% (down 0.5%) didn’t name a party.

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