Maori voters favour MMP
Most Maori voters are happy with the current MMP voting system, according to a new poll.
Most Maori voters are happy with the current MMP voting system, according to a new poll.
A Te Karere digi-poll, which surveyed 1002 Maori voters on the general and Maori rolls by telephone between January 6 and 28, found that 71.8 percent of respondents wanted to keep the MMP electoral system, while 20.1 percent said a different system should be introduced.
Just more than half the respondents (55 percent) did not support New Zealand becoming a republic, while 32.5 percent said they did.
Nearly two thirds of respondents (62 percent) thought that New Zealand First presence in Parliament would be good.
Other results from the poll released this week found Maori voters preferred Labour (36.9 percent) over National (16.8 percent), but supported John Key as prime minister (26.8 percent) over Phil Goff (6.4 percent). Support for the Maori Party was 36.2 percent.
One question given only to Maori Party voters, about a third of all respondents, asked whether the party's coalition with National was a good thing.
Of that group, 48.3 percent thought the coalition had been beneficial while 45.7 percent did not, while a further 6 percent did not know.
The margin of error for the poll was 3.1 percent.
NZPA
Fri, 04 Feb 2011
Fri, 04 Feb 2011
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