27 Sep 2009

Labour narrows gap, but National still way ahead

8:57 pm on 27 September 2009

The latest opinion poll shows the gap closing slightly between the two major political parties.

The One News Colmar Brunton poll released on Sunday night has National on 54% and Labour 33% - a narrowing of the gap by four percentage points since the last poll.

The Green Party falls below the 5% threshold, coming in at 4.3%, while ACT has 3.2% and the Maori Party 2.7%.

Prime Minister John Key still tops the preferred leader poll with 50%; Labour leader Phil Goff is on 9%.

The poll of 1,000 voters has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.