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Opinion Polling For The 2023 New Zealand General Election
Several polling firms conducted opinion polls during the term of the 53rd New Zealand Parliament (2020–2023) for the 2023 New Zealand general election. The regular polls are the quarterly polls produced by Television New Zealand (''1News'') conducted by Verian (formerly known as Colmar Brunton and Kantar Public) and Discovery New Zealand (''Newshub'') conducted by Reid Research, along with monthly polls by Roy Morgan, and by Curia ( Taxpayers' Union). The sample size, margin of error and confidence interval of each poll varies by organisation and date. The current parliament was elected on 17 October 2020. The general election took place on 14 October 2023. Party vote Nationwide polling Poll results are listed in the table below in reverse chronological order. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed in bold, and the background shaded in the leading party's colour. The 'party lead' column shows the percentage-point difference between the two parti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Opinion Polls
An opinion poll, often simply referred to as a survey or a poll, is a human research survey of public opinion from a particular sample. Opinion polls are usually designed to represent the opinions of a population by conducting a series of questions and then extrapolating generalities in ratio or within confidence intervals. A person who conducts polls is referred to as a pollster. History The first known example of an opinion poll was a tally of voter preferences reported by the ''Raleigh Star and North Carolina State Gazette'' and the ''Wilmington American Watchman and Delaware Advertiser'' prior to the 1824 presidential election, showing Andrew Jackson leading John Quincy Adams by 335 votes to 169 in the contest for the United States presidency. Since Jackson won the popular vote in that state and the national popular vote, such straw votes gradually became more popular, but they remained local, usually citywide phenomena. In 1916, ''The Literary Digest'' embarked on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Te Pāti Māori
(), also known as the Māori Party, is a left-wing political party in New Zealand advocating Māori people, Māori rights. With the exception of a handful of New Zealand electorates#Electorates in the 53rd Parliament, general electorates, contests the reserved Māori electorates, in which its main rival is the New Zealand Labour Party, Labour Party. Under the current leadership of Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, it promotes the following policies: the upholding of , the dismantling of structural discrimination in New Zealand, systemic racism, and the strengthening of the minority rights, rights and promised in . The party is also committed to a mixture of democratic socialism, socially progressive and green politics, green policy through a "Treaty of Waitangi, -centric" lens. This includes eradicating Goods and Services Tax (New Zealand), Goods and Services Tax on food, opposing Deep Sea Drilling Project, deep sea drilling, organising and funding a Māori Health Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Meka Whaitiri
Melissa Heni Mekameka Whaitiri (born 11 January 1965) is a New Zealand politician and former member of the New Zealand House of Representatives. She was first elected to Parliament in the 2013 Ikaroa-Rāwhiti by-election for the Labour Party. Whaitiri served as Minister of Customs for the Sixth Labour Government on two separate occasions but resigned from her party on 3 May 2023 to contest the 2023 general election for Te Pāti Māori. For the remainder of the parliamentary term, she was treated as an independent member in the House, and was defeated in her bid to retain Ikaroa-Rāwhiti by the Labour candidate, Cushla Tangaere-Manuel. Early life Whaitiri was born in Manutuke near Gisborne in 1965. Her parents were Wirangi Wiremu Whaitiri, a Korean War veteran, and Mei Whaitiri (née Irihapiti Robin), who was the model used for the '' Pania of the Reef'' statue in Napier in 1954. Whaitiri's father was a native speaker of te reo Māori who taught the language to his daug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2023 New Zealand Budget
Budget 2023, titled "Support for today, Building for tomorrow", is the New Zealand budget for fiscal year 2023/24 presented to the House of Representatives by Finance Minister, Grant Robertson, on 18 May 2023 as the fifth budget presented by the Sixth Labour Government. The budget was released in the midst of rising living costs and recovery efforts following the 2023 Auckland Anniversary Weekend floods and Cyclone Gabrielle in January and February 2023. Background On 11 May 2023, Finance Minister Grant Robertson stated that the 2023 budget would focus on four overarching themes: supporting New Zealanders with cost of living, delivering services that New Zealanders rely on, recovery and resilience, and "fiscal sustainability." Prime Minister Chris Hipkins stated that the budget would focus on easing cost of living pressures while making targeted investments to promote economic growth. The budget was released amidst rising living costs and inflation, and the economic and social ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Michael Wood (New Zealand Politician)
Michael Philip Wood (born 10 May 1980) is a New Zealand New Zealand Labour Party, Labour Party politician and a former member of the New Zealand House of Representatives, representing Mount Roskill (New Zealand electorate), Mount Roskill between 2016 and 2023. He was Minister of Immigration (New Zealand), Minister of Immigration, Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety, Ministry of Transport (New Zealand), Minister of Transport, and Minister for Auckland in the second term of the Sixth Labour Government of New Zealand, Sixth Labour Government until his resignation in June 2023 due to controversies over shares. Early life Wood was born in 1980. He attended Pakuranga College and graduated from the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Arts in 2005. While a university student Wood worked as a Christmas tree salesman. After finishing university he initially worked in retail jobs for several years, including at Hugh Wright's, a men's clothing store. He joined the union moveme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Kiri Allan
Kiritapu Lyndsay Allan (, ; born 1984) is a New Zealand lawyer and former politician. She was a member of Parliament (MP) in the New Zealand House of Representatives from 2017 to 2023, representing the Labour Party in the East Coast electorate. Allan was a junior minister in the second term of Jacinda Ardern's Sixth Labour Government and a senior minister under Ardern's successor, Chris Hipkins. She held the positions of Minister for Emergency Management and Minister of Conservation from November 2020 to June 2022 and was Minister of Justice from June 2022 until July 2023. In June 2023, concerns about how Allan treated her staff were raised. She took time off from her parliamentary duties after a relationship breakup and, on 24 July 2023, resigned from her ministerial roles after she was arrested for careless driving the previous night. In May 2024, Allan pleaded guilty and was convicted of two charges of careless driving and failing to accompany a police officer. Early li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Early Voting
Early voting, also called advance polling or pre-poll voting, is a convenience voting process by which voters in a public election can vote before a scheduled Election Day (politics), election day. Early voting can take place remotely, such as via postal voting, or in person, usually in designated early voting polling stations. The availability and time periods for early voting vary among jurisdictions and types of election. The goals of early voting are usually to increase voter participation, relieve congestion at polling stations on election day, and avoid possible discrimination against people with work and travel schedules that may effectively prohibit them from getting to the polls during the hours provided in a single election day. In some countries, early in-person voting or postal voting (or both) are available to all voters. In other countries, only some voters (such as those who are expected to be out of the country or hospitalized on election day) are eligible to cast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2023 Port Waikato By-election
The 2023 Port Waikato by-election was held on 25 November 2023. The by-election was triggered by the death of Neil Christensen, who was a candidate for the ACT New Zealand, ACT Party. Christensen's death occurred after the close of candidate nominations for the 2023 New Zealand general election, but before polling day. The by-election was won by National incumbent Andrew Bayly, who has held the Port Waikato (New Zealand electorate), Port Waikato seat and its predecessor Hunua (New Zealand electorate), Hunua since 2014. Background 2023 general election Advance voting for the 2023 general election started on 2 October 2023. Christensen's death was announced on 9 October 2023, one week into the advanced voting period. Because New Zealand uses a Mixed-member proportional representation, mixed-member proportional voting system, Port Waikato constituents continued to cast a party vote in the general election, but the electorate vote was suspended and any electorate votes already cas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Port Waikato (New Zealand Electorate)
Port Waikato is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate which existed for four parliamentary terms from 1996 to 2008, and was recreated by the 2019/20 electoral redistribution ahead of the 2020 election. It was held by Bill Birch for one term, and by Paul Hutchison for the following three terms. From 2020, it was held by Andrew Bayly. All of these were members of the National Party. During the campaign for the 2023 general election, the ACT Party candidate died. Only a poll for the party vote was held during this election; the electorate vote was determined in the 2023 Port Waikato by-election. Population centres The was notable for the significant change of electorate boundaries, based on the provisions of the Electoral Act 1993. Because of the introduction of the mixed-member proportional (MMP) electoral system, the number of electorates had to be reduced, leading to significant changes. More than half of the electorates contested in 1996 were newly constituted, and most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Results Of The 2023 New Zealand General Election
This article summarises results of the 2023 New Zealand general election, 14 October 2023 New Zealand general election, including both party vote and New Zealand electorates, electorate vote outcomes. Release of results Preliminary results were released gradually after polling booths closed at 19:00 (New Zealand Time, NZDT) on 14 October. The preliminary count only includes advance ordinary and election day ordinary votes; it does not include any Special vote, special votes, which have a deadline ten days later (24 October). Special votes include votes from those who enrolled after the deadline of 10 September, those who voted outside their electorate (including all overseas votes), voters in hospital or prison, and those voters enrolled on the unpublished roll. Party vote Overall results , colspan=12 align=center, , - style="text-align:center;" ! colspan=2 rowspan=2 style="width:213px;" , Party ! colspan=4 , Party vote ! colspan=4 , Electorate vote sum ! rowspan= ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
New Conservatives Party
New Conservatives is a conservative political party in New Zealand. Some opponents and observers have described the party's policies as far-right, though the party now states it has moved to a "more centrist" position under new leadership. It advocates for lower taxation, anti-abortion measures and austerity cuts. It was founded as the Conservative Party in August 2011 by businessman and political activist Colin Craig, who led the party from its foundation until his resignation in June 2015. The party had two members on the Upper Harbour Local Board in Auckland from 2013 to 2016. The party has contested the four general elections from 2011 through 2020 without winning any seats. At the 2014 election it received 3.97% of the vote. At the 2020 general election, they gained 1.5% of the vote. The party changed its name to New Conservative in November 2017, and then to New Conservatives in 2023. Ideology and policies The New Conservatives party's policies include, or have incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
New Zealand Loyal
The New Zealand Loyal Party, also known as NZ Loyal, was a far-right, conspiracist political party in New Zealand. It was founded in June 2023 by anti-vaccination activist, and ex-TVNZ news presenter, Liz Gunn. It contested one general election, in 2023, winning no seats and 1.2% of the party vote. Policy positions The party described itself as opposed to "globalist interests" and in favour of "very little state interference in your life". Constitution NZ Loyal pledged to pull New Zealand out of international bodies including the United Nations, World Economic Forum, and World Health Organization. They promised to "establish" a New Zealand constitution (disregarding the extant, uncodified Constitution of New Zealand). The party opposed "race-based policies" and claimed to support limited, de-centralised government. They also campaigned for a moratorium on immigration. Enquires and investigations Three separate policies promised investigations. Their targets were the Reser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
