{"id":59122,"date":"2023-10-11T02:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/11\/guardian-essential-new-zealand-poll-labour-picks-up-steam-days-out-from-election"},"modified":"2023-10-11T02:00:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T17:00:15","slug":"guardian-essential-new-zealand-poll-labour-picks-up-steam-days-out-from-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59122","title":{"rendered":"Guardian Essential New Zealand poll: Labour picks up steam days out from election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governing party still trails National as NZ First\u2019s support grows, strengthening Winston Peters\u2019 position in any rightwing coalition<\/p>\n<p>Support for Labour has registered a burst of energy in a Guardian Essential poll days before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/new-zealand-election-2023\">New Zealand election<\/a> \u2013 but not enough to overcome an advance by the populist group New Zealand First, which is expected to propel a rightwing coalition to power.<\/p>\n<p>The minor party\u2019s steady climb in recent surveys threatens to vex what once appeared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/08\/tired-broke-and-eager-for-change-new-zealand-expected-to-shift-right-at-coming-election\">an easy route to victory<\/a> for the right in Saturday\u2019s election, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2023\/10\/04\/poll-labour-stagnates-peters-still-needed-by-national\/\">months of polls<\/a> showed governing Labour languishing. Led by the maverick, veteran lawmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/03\/im-going-nowhere-but-up-winston-peters-on-populism-politics-and-the-polls\">Winston Peters<\/a>, New Zealand First recorded 8.2% in October\u2019s poll \u2013 which includes undecided voters in its total \u2013 up 2.2 points from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/13\/guardian-essential-new-zealand-poll-winston-peters-in-position-to-become-election-kingmaker\">September\u2019s survey<\/a>, and the party\u2019s strongest showing of any major poll this year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/11\/guardian-essential-new-zealand-poll-labour-picks-up-steam-days-out-from-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governing party still trails National as NZ First\u2019s support grows, strengthening Winston Peters\u2019 position in any rightwing coalitionSupport for Labour has registered a burst of energy in a Guardian Essential poll days before the New Zealand election \u2013 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2832,2765,2961,56,2941,933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-chris-hipkins","category-christopher-luxon","category-essential-poll-new-zealand","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-election-2023","category-new-zealand-politics"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59123,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59122\/revisions\/59123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}