17 Jul 2023

National and ACT could form a government, just - latest 1News poll

From Checkpoint, 6:08 pm on 17 July 2023

National and ACT could form a government but only just. The One News Varian poll, shows National at 35 percent support down 2 percent.

Labour is on 33 percent down 2 percent. ACT is up 1 per cent to 12 percent.

The Green Party is up 3 percent to 10 percent support. And NZ First and Te Pati Maori are both on 3 percent.

In terms of support for leaders, Chris Hipkins remains the preferred Prime Minister at 24 percent, down 1 and Christopher Luxon sits at 20 percent up 2.

It means National and ACT could form a coalition with 61 seats, the bare minimum required.

A Labour/Greens/Te Pati Maori coalition would get 49 seats on these numbers.

Our deputy political editor, Craig McCulloch spoke to Susana Leiátaua.