RNZ REID POLL RESULTS

Political Poll

21-27 March 2025

Date poll was conducted	Surveys were completed from Friday 21st March to Thursday 27th March 2025
Median Date	Sunday 23rd March 2025 (when 50% of the sample was achieved)
Collection Method	Online methodology is used to collect data.
Target Population	Eligible New Zealand voters 18+ years
Sample Size	n=1000
Sampling Technique	Respondents were sourced from one of several Online Research Companies’ Panels which comply with the ESOMAR guidelines for online research. Quota sampling and weighting to ensure representative cross section by age, gender and geography
Sample Coverage	National including rural, secondary urban and main urban areas.
Weighting	To correct for non-response in any of the quota sampling variables, the data have been weighted based on Statistics New Zealand’s population counts 2023.
Sample Error	Maximum of 3.1% expressed at a 95% confidence level

Party Vote

If a general election was held tomorrow under MMP, which political party would you vote for?

*Total Excluding Don't Know/ undecided and Would not vote
**Total Respondents Surveyed

Click HERE to view Party Vote results for 2020-2025

Preferred Prime Minister

If you were able to vote for any politician in New Zealand to be Prime Minister, for whom would you vote?

Top 5 Preferred Prime Minister
	%
Christopher Luxon	21.9
Chris Hipkins	20.9
Winston Peters	7.9
David Seymour	6.8
Chloe Swarbrick	6.1
All others mentioned
Jacinda Ardern	3.5
Hana Rawhiti	1.2
Helen Clark	1.2
John Key	1.2
Chris Bishop	1
Nicola Willis	0.8
James Shaw	0.7
Marama Davidson	0.7
Judith Collins	0.5
Simon Bridges	0.2
Others	7.2
None	4.1
Don’t know	14.1
Total	1000

National Leader and Labour Leader Net Scores

2015 - 2025

National Leader at the time the Reid Poll was conducted
National Leader	From (the first poll dates)	To (the last Poll dates)
John Keys	*Before 2015	9-17 Nov 2015
Bill English	12-22 May 2016	18-28 January 2018
Simon Bridges	17-24 May 2018	8-16 May 2020
Judith Collins	16-24 July 2020	10-17 November 2021
Christopher Luxon	22 January - 4 February 2022	21-27 March 2025


Labour Leader at the time the Reid Poll was conducted
Labour Leader	From (the first Poll dates)	To (the last Poll dates)
Andrew Little	20-28 January 2015	20-28 July 2017
Jacinda Ardern	2-8 August 2017	25 October - 3 November 2022
Chris Hipkins	5-11 May 2023	21-27 March 2025