Luxon still preferred PM and coalition safe in latest political poll but voters restless on the economy

National leader Christopher Luxon remains the most favoured prime minister as per Newshub-Reid research poll conducted from October 5 to 9.

Luxon is at 25 percent to support in the 1News Verian Poll – and that is a drop by three.

Chris Hipkins of the Labour party received 15% on the show, that is 3% less than the last poll.

However, while the coalition government would win an election if tomorrow was polling day according to this poll, it may have to look at how it is delivering its policies or winning the argument because 40 percent of the thousand voters polled believe the economy is actually worse than it was before the general election last year.

Those who believed the country was in better shape were 30% of the respondents while 26% said it was worse and 4% had no opinion or preferred not to Opine.

In the governing coalition, NZ First leader Winston Peters’ preferred prime minister rating was up one point to 6 percent while ACT leader David Seymour retained his 4 percent rating for the opposition parties, Greens co-leader Chloe Swarbrick was rated 6 percent of a drop of one.

A Poll undertaken tomorrow will put the coalition government on 63 and superior to labor, Greens, and Te Pāti Māori on 58. That would take National to 47 seats – two less. Labour would have 37, a gain of three, Greens would have had 15, a gain of one while ACT’s representation would be 10, losing one, NZ would have six MPs – two less, and Te Pāti Māori would remain with six MPs.

National, on 37% of the party vote in the poll, was down one point on the last poll which was held in August. Labour was down one point on 29%, the Greens up one point on 12%, ACT up one point on 8% and New Zealand First on 5%, down one point.

Te Pāti Māori was on 4 percent, the same as for the previous poll. The Opportunities Party was up two points to 3 percent to remain outside of Parliament without an electorate seat.

Nine percent of the respondents were undecided voters, the same as in the previous poll.

The voters were contacted through mobile phone (500) and online panel (500) respectively. The anticipated absolute maximum sampling error is estimated to be ± 3.1 % at a 95% level of confidence. The support percentages for parties have been rounded to the nearest integer, while those below 4.5% are presented to the nearest tenth. The data used in this study has been weighted to reflect Stats NZ population estimates on age, gender, region, ethnic identification, and education level. Party support data does not include undecided voters, non-voters and persons who refused to answer.