Chris, both Luxon and Hipkins, take tumble in latest poll

Monday, 16 September 2024

Chris Hipkins took a tumble in the preferred prime minister stakes - dropping six points.

The latest Taxpayers’ Union-Curia poll shows the National Party nudging up a point but both Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and notably Labour leader Chris Hipkins struggled in the preferred PM stakes.

Compared against a Taxpayers Union-Curia poll conducted in July, National was up 1.4 to 39% and Labour up 0.8 to 25.9%.

The Greens were down 2.5 to 11%, ACT was down 0.3 to 8.8%, NZ First down 0.5 to 6.8% and Te Pāti Māori up 1.5 to 5%.

Those results would give National an extra seat, with Labour unchanged. The Greens were down two seats, ACT unchanged, NZ First up one seat and Te Pāti Māori unchanged.

In the preferred prime minister stakes, Christopher Luxon was down 1.8 to 32.7% while Chris Hipkins was down 6.1 points to 12.6%. Greens co-leader Chloe Swarbrick was in third place, with 7.2%, followed by Winston Peters on 6.7%.

Hipkins’ favourability also dropped 16 points, to -10%, while Luxon’s rose a point to 7%.

The margin of error is 3.1% and 3.4% were undecided on the party vote question.