TDB’s March Poll’s Been Kicked Off

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The Daily Blog’s March poll has been kicked off, asking readers: What party will you likely vote for at this year’s General Election?

We will continue TDB’s site rolling poll, one poll for each month, through to the General Election.

TDB Feb 2014 PollComparing the results will provide readers an interesting account of how this audience cumulatively accesses each party on merit and performance.

As you can see from the graphic (left) TDB February Poll saw 1112 people vote pushing the Greens to the top with 31% support. The Greens seemed to surge ahead of Labour for the first time on TDB particularly in the first 25 days of the month.

But did Labour leader David Cunliffe create a circuit-breaker for his party’s flatlining in the polls?

After the announcement that Matt McCarten had been appointed Labour’s chief of staff, support for Labour lifted significantly to end the month with 25%. It will be interesting to see whether David Cunliffe’s Labour gains more support from TDB readers in the March poll. It does appear many see the McCarten appointment as a signal to the electorate that David Cunliffe’s Labour is determined to represent those who are finding it tough to make ends meet, and a determination to roll out policies that will address inequality in New Zealand.

We saw an increase in the number of people who prefer National (21%), Mana managed a solid steady result of 8%. And we saw ACT lift its percentages from virtually zero to 4%.

The Internet Party was added for the first time in the February Poll, and the Kim Dotcom party didn’t really fire with The Daily Blog audience, finishing with 4% – perhaps due to the own-goals the burgeoning party scored in January and early February.

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New Zealand First gained 3%; Conservatives ended the month with 1% as did United Future. Last came the Maori Party with 3 votes struggling to hold 1%.

How the poll works:

So you know, each person gets to vote once for one single party of choice. So choose well.

We have settings that restrict the number of times a person can vote from their personal computer and IP. That is an attempt to prevent a person voting repeatedly, if we allowed that the results would not give us a sniff of the audience’s view overall.

As the month progresses, you will be able to see how the parties are doing. If your preference changes over the month, you will be able to reflect this change in your vote in the April poll.

For the record, TDB does not claim this poll to be scientific. We run it on TDB as an indicator of the cumulative audience’s political preferences. We also run it over a sustained period so as to reduce the manipulation effect that sudden flight arrivals of audiences pushed here from other sites may have on the results.

By the way, Happy 1st Birthday to The Daily Blog! See Martyn Bradbury’s post on TDB’s first year since its launch on March 1 2013.