The polls have tightened ahead of the general election across New Zealand as the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Bill English MP, and his Nationals Party have stemmed the advances of the Labour Party, led by Ms Jacinda Ardern MP.
Analysis of polling in The Australian confirms former Deputy Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Winston Peters MP, is expected to be kingmaker with neither the incumbent Nationals, not the Labour Party expected to form a Government without the support of Peters’ New Zealand First Party.
Ms Ardern’s hopes of a victory evaporated when the benchmark Colmar Brunton poll, published on Wednesday, that Labour’s vote had crashed by seven points in a week, down to 37 per cent, a figure confirmed by Newshub-Reid last night.
Questioned about her fluctuating fortunes in the polls, , Ms Ardern said “the only wish that I would have had from this campaign was more time because I absolutely understand the need for New Zealanders to have had a little more time to get to know me better.”
