John Key speaking at a public meeting in Hawkes Bay recently. Photo / Alan Gibson
A poll published today has the opposition National Party on track for a landslide election win with a 27-point lead over Labour, up 9 points on its lead in the same poll in April.
The Fairfax Media poll which questioned 1091 people between May 7 and May 13
has National's support up 4 percentage points to 56 per cent while Labour has slipped 5 to 29 per cent compared with an April poll.
The Greens remain steady on 6 per cent, New Zealand first are up to 2 to 5 per cent while the Maori Party slips one point to 2 per cent and Act and United Future are stuck on 1 per cent.
On today's poll, Labour face an election night rout that would oust 14 sitting MPs and deliver National a 13-seat majority, the Dominion Post reported.
The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 per cent.
A Roy Morgan political poll published on May 9 gave National a 14 point lead over Labour.
The poll had National up 2.5 to 49.5 per cent support.
Labour was up one to 35.5 per cent support.
Of the smaller parties, only the Greens broke the 5 per cent party vote threshold needed to get MPs into Parliament without winning an electorate.
The Maori Party was on 2 per cent support, while ACT and United Future each had the backing of 1 per cent of voters.
- NZPA
