Hephaestion
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posted 07 September 2005 06:51 AM
A Labour coalition would have a clear majority, poll finds
quote: The Labour Party has swept ahead of National in a new poll that also has the Greens as the third largest party in Parliament. A 3 News TNS poll has Labour up six points to 45 per cent support -- nine points ahead of National which has slipped five points to 36 per cent.
Volatility in the polls is showing through as this poll contrasts with a One News-Colmar Brunton poll published three days ago that gave National an eight-point lead over Labour.
Tonight's poll also sees New Zealand First losing a point to sit on 5 per cent support with the Green Party gaining a point to capture 7 per cent of the vote.
Act was up a point to 2.4 per cent, United Future was virtually unchanged on 1.5 per cent support while the Maori Party stayed the same on 1.7 per cent support.
Under this poll, Labour would have 57 seats, National 45, NZ First six, the Green Party eight, Maori Party two, United Future two and Progressives one seat.
A Labour/Progressives/Green government would have a clear majority.
My friend in Australia, Ben, had this comment on another forum recently:
quote: The 2 contenders are current NZ leader Helen Clark (Labour party, centre left) and Former Reserve Bank Governer Don Brash leader of the oppostion (the Nationals, centre right)
Helen Clark who has held a strong economy, has tough opposition from Don Brash. Don Brash wants to repair relations with the Bush addministration in the United States.
That's enough to make me root for Clark right there...
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