Polling Data Hints at Record Election Performance for NZ First

Shane Jones warns of ‘demographic engineering’ as NZ First opens convention

New Zealand First is warning its members of impending challenges in the upcoming election campaign while the party’s deputy leader decries “demographic...

‘We are going to turn this country’s democracy upside down’: Winston Peters kicks off NZ First election year convention

NZ First leader kicks off his election year party convention with a pledge to “turn this country’s democracy upside down for a great and real purpose”.

Polling data hints at record election performance for NZ First

Ahead of the party’s annual conference (and joint campaign launch), New Zealand First is enjoying the highest polling numbers it has seen since its historic 1996 run. A current polling aggregate puts the party at just over 11 percent, two points above where it was at this point in the 2017 election, and two points below where it finished in 1996: 13.35 percent, its best result of all time. Historically – in all but one of the past five elections…