Opinion polling for the 1999 New Zealand general election

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Opinion polling was commissioned throughout the duration of the 45th New Zealand Parliament in the lead up to the 1999 election by various organisations.

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Party vote

Polls are listed in the table below in chronological order. Refusals are generally excluded from the party vote percentages, while question wording and the treatment of "don't know" responses and those not intending to vote may vary between survey firms.

Graphical summary

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Local regression of polls conducted

Individual polls

PollDate [nb 1] Labour National NZ First Alliance ACT Green United
1996 election result [1] 12 Oct 199628.1933.8713.3510.106.100.88
One News Colmar Brunton [2] 13 Feb 19973145774.30.2
One News Colmar Brunton [2] 13 Mar 199732474.274.4
One News Colmar Brunton [2] 11 Apr 199736415860.1
One News Colmar Brunton [3] 13 May 199742383.864.70.1
TV3/CM Research [2] 25 May 1997453066.77.1
One News Colmar Brunton [4] 25 Jun 199741394.474.90.1
One News Colmar Brunton [2] 10 Jul 199742393.874.50.2
One News Colmar Brunton [2] 7 Aug 199742393.794.70
One News Colmar Brunton [2] 18 Sep 199745361.9760.6
TV3/CM Research [2] 11 Oct 199749314.58.35.9
New Zealand Herald-DigiPoll [5] 13 Oct 199750321.75.94.6
One News Colmar Brunton [2] 16 Oct 199752301.8760.2
One News Colmar Brunton [2] 4 Nov 199745372.3650.3
One News Colmar Brunton [2] 13 Nov 199745362.867
TV3/CM Research [2] 23 Nov 199745343.17.67
8 December 1997 – Jenny Shipley is elected Prime Minister and leader of the National Party after Jim Bolger's resignation.
One News Colmar Brunton [6] 8–10 Dec 199746401.1650.60.1
One News Colmar Brunton [7] 12 Feb 199845421.3550.4
TV3-CM Research [7] 15 Feb 199844381.87.94.40.5
One News Colmar Brunton [8] 25 Mar 199839421.6580.60.3
TV3/CM Research [2] 21 Apr 199838422.26.36.10.4
One News Colmar Brunton [2] 23 Apr 199838462.5650.40.3
2 May 1998 – National narrowly wins the Taranaki-King Country by-election after Bolger's resignation.
New Zealand Herald-DigiPoll [9] 11 May 199834.738.31.78.511.81.4
TV3/CM Research [2] 14 May 199837412.1890.20.1
One News Colmar Brunton [2] 18 Jun 199837372.19110.50.1
One News Colmar Brunton [2] 9 Jul 199842361.9980.2
TV3-CM Research [10] 10 Jul 199842362.39.95.11
One News Colmar Brunton [11] 6 Aug 199840392.6960.7
New Zealand Herald-DigiPoll [11] 11 Aug 199846.132.62.29.75.9
One News Colmar Brunton [2] 13 Aug 199841392.995
14 August 1998 – Winston Peters is sacked from cabinet by Shipley ending the coalition between National and New Zealand First.
TV3/CM Research [2] 13 Sep 199842354.49.14.70.4
One News Colmar Brunton [12] 22 Sep 199842411.8760.3
One News Colmar Brunton [2] 15 Oct 199848352660.70.1
One News Colmar Brunton [13] 16 Nov 199848342760.5
TV3/CM Research [14] 17 Nov 199849323551
New Zealand Herald-Digipoll [15] 7 Dec 199851323.564.5
One News Colmar Brunton [2] 10 Dec 199845352.4850.40.1
One News Colmar Brunton [2] 11 Feb 199942412.673.90.7
TV3/CM Research [2] 14 Feb 199943373751
One News Colmar Brunton [16] 23 Mar 199939422.2760.60.4
TV3/CM Research [2] 18 Apr 199941373851
One News Colmar Brunton [17] 27 Apr 199944381.5660.50.4
One News Colmar Brunton [18] 19 May 199944392.674.40.90.2
One News Colmar Brunton [2] 17 Jun 199942411.964.91.4
TV3/CM Research [2] 20 Jun 199946334741.4
One News Colmar Brunton [19] 13 Jul 199944381.864.70.90.2
TV3/CM Research [2] 25 Jul 199938374.7861.5
One News Colmar Brunton [2] 5 August 199940384771.1
TV3/CM Research [2] 22 August 199940327762.6
New Zealand Herald-DigiPoll [20] 28 Aug – 3 Sep 199943.835.75.553.1
One News Colmar Brunton [2] 16 Sep 199941354.1751.90.2
TV3/CM Research [2] 19 Sep 199939337672.4
TV3/CM Research [2] 10 Oct 199940364872
TV3/CM Research [2] 20 Oct 199937336792.5
One News Colmar Brunton [21] 18 Oct 1999393764.5710.5
New Zealand Herald-Digipoll [22] 5 Nov 199935.23418.79.22.90.3
TV3/CM Research [2] 7 Nov 1999412867102.9
One News Colmar Brunton [2] 11 Nov 1999343369112.40.1
TV3/CM Research [2] 17 Nov 199937306992.8
New Zealand Herald-Digipoll [23] 26 Nov 199939.829.93.67.78.55.4
One News Colmar Brunton [24] 26 Nov 199939313.28760.7
TV3/CM Research [24] 26 Nov 199934295.59116
1999 election result [25] 27 Nov 199938.7430.504.267.747.045.160.54

Preferred Prime Minister

Individual polls

PollDate [nb 1] Helen Clark Jim Bolger Jenny Shipley Winston Peters Jim Anderton Richard Prebble Mike Moore
One News Colmar Brunton [3] 13 May 199721206465
One News Colmar Brunton [4] 25 Jun 199726214454
One News Colmar Brunton [26] 13 Aug 19972520937
8 December 1997 – Jenny Shipley is elected Prime Minister and leader of the National Party after Jim Bolger's resignation.
One News Colmar Brunton [6] 8 – 10 Dec 1997285272
One News Colmar Brunton [7] 12 Feb 199826327153
TV3-CM Research [7] 15 Feb 199828420255
One News Colmar Brunton [8] 25 Mar 199823331343
TV3-CM Research [10] 10 Jul 19982122
One News Colmar Brunton [11] 11 Aug 19982228292
14 August 1998 – Winston Peters is sacked from cabinet by Shipley ending the coalition between National and New Zealand First.
One News Colmar Brunton [12] 22 Sep 19982328371
TV3/CM Research [14] 17 Nov 1998241546
One News Colmar Brunton [16] 23 Mar 19992129
One News Colmar Brunton [17] 27 Apr 19992127351
One News Colmar Brunton [18] 19 May 19992227461
New Zealand Herald-DigiPoll [27] 11 Aug 199919.517.62.46.43
New Zealand Herald-DigiPoll [28] 8 Sep 199919.51.1166.94.41.81.7
One News Colmar Brunton [24] 26 Nov 19993027
TV3/CM Research [24] 26 Nov 19992320

Electorate polling

Coromandel

PollDateTony Bird Jeanette Fitzsimons Margaret Hawkeswood Robyn McDonald Murray McLean
Reid Research [29] 5–8 Aug 1999633201031
Sunday Star Times/UMR Insight [30] 24 Oct 1999341537
TV1 Colmar Brunton [31] [32] 10 Nov 199983913436
Dominion/UMR Insight [33] 15 Nov 1999431135
TV1 Colmar Brunton [34] 18–21 Nov 19993441139
1999 election result27 Nov 19993.5639.9811.373.6139.25

Wellington Central

PollDate Marian Hobbs Richard Prebble
TV1 Colmar Brunton [35] 8 Nov 19994847
1999 election result27 Nov 199948.3744.27

Ikaroa-Rāwhiti

PollDate Derek Fox Bill Gudgeon Parekura Horomia Dalvanius Prime Des RatimaVicky RobinTauni Sinclair
Marae [36] 31.710.934.63.94.22.93.3
Marae [37] 21 Nov 19993436.6
1999 election result27 Nov 199937.165.9740.995.270.77

Waiariki

PollDate Tuariki Delamere Mita Ririnui
Marae [37] 21 Nov 199927.130
1999 election result27 Nov 199920.0145.11

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 These are the survey dates of the poll, or if the survey dates are not stated, the date the poll was released.

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