Peters well up in P.M. stakes
Mr Winston Peters, National Party member of Parliament for Tauranga, has come from nowhere to score 8 per cent in a poll for preferred Prime Minister.
Mr Peters is third equal with Sir Robert Muldoon in the latest “New Zealand Heralcl”-National Research Bureau poll, held in the last fortnight. In parallel with the loss of popularity for the Labour Party, the Prime Minister, Mr Lange, has slumped in his rating from 27 per cent in November to 18 per cent in May. Mr Lange is rated seven points ahead of the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Bolger, whose standing is unchanged at 11 per cent.
After Mr Peters in the listings comes the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Palmer, whose rating is up two points at 7 per cent.
The National Party finance spokeswoman and member for Selwyn, Miss Ruth Richardson, holds unchanged support of 2 per cent. Those results emerge from a “Her-ald”-N.R.B. survey of 2000 eligible voters selected by random probability methods in the 20 main population centres. Interviews took place between May 14 and 21 and were held face-to-face in the respondents’ homes. People were asked: “If you were able to vote for any politician in New Zealand to be Prime Minister, for whom would
you vote?” Their responses, and those in
The figures are subject to a maximum statistical sampling error of plus or minus 2 per cent. Among the “all others,” a 1 per cent popularity level was recorded by the Minister of Finance, Mr Douglas; the Minister of Overseas Trade and Marketing, Mr Moore; the Minister of Health, Mr Caygill; the member of Parliament for Sydenham and former Labour Party president, Mr Jim Anderton; a former leader of the New Zealand Party, Mr Bob Jones; a former National Party Minister, Mr Derek Quigley; and the National Party member for Whangarei, Mr John Banks.
Copyright, 1988 — “New Zealand Herald.”
Tomorrow: Voters name the “top 10” problems.
other polls, were: May ’88 Dec ’87 Jun ’87 May ’87 Feb ’87 % % % % % Lange 18 27 32 27 27 Bolger 11 11 9 7 8 Muldoon 8 9 14 13 14 Peters 8 1 — 1 — Palmer 7 5 3 3 5 Richardson 2 2 1 — — All others 8 12 10 14 12 Don’t know 26 24 22 25 22 None 12 9 9 10 12
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