Political poll: Labour and National in dead heat in Talbot-Mills poll

Labour and National are tied in the latest poll. Photo / Mark Mitchell

Labour and National are tied in the latest Talbot-Mills corporate poll, sitting on 36 per cent each.

Labour is down one point from last month’s poll, and National is up two points.

The Act Party is on 10 per cent, down two points, while the Greens are on 9 per cent, up one point.

NZ First was on 3.9 per cent, with Te Pāti Māori and TOP on 1.9 per cent and 0.8 per cent respectively.

Talbot Mills runs the Labour Party’s internal poll, although this poll is for the company’s corporate clients.

The poll’s seat calculation gave National and Act 60 seats, Labour and the Greens 57 seats and Te Pāti Māori three seats.

This means National leader Christopher Luxon was wise to swiftly reverse his stance on Te Pāti Māori this week, having earlier ruled them out. He would need them to govern.

Labour leader Chris Hipkins is still ahead as preferred Prime Minister on 36 per cent, down three points.

Luxon is up one point to 24 as preferred PM.

Act leader David Seymour follows them on 11 per cent.

The poll was taken between March 30 and April 5, meaning it took in the period immediately following the sacking of former police minister Stuart Nash on March 28 - one of Labour’s worst weeks.

The poll has a margin of error of 3.1 per cent.