PollTracker: Labour and Nats now neck and neck

PollTracker: Labour and Nats now neck and neck
National leader Christopher Luxon is on the up. (Image: supplied)
Andy Fyers
Two public opinion polls released this week have support for National marginally ahead of Labour in BusinessDesk's PollTracker, a time-weighted average of all public opinion polls.The polls were conducted by Kantar Public for TVNZ in the first week of March and Roy Morgan during the month of February.The results were enough to move National up by three points to 37.6% in the PollTracker average, while Labour was down by almost four points to 37.3%.It is the first time National has led Labour since the pandemic began.If support for all parti...

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