TDB’s August Poll Is Ready For Your Vote

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

You will see this month’s poll in the right-hand sidebar of the site. (Please note this is a party vote poll not a preferred candidate poll.)

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

Comparing 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) the TDB July Poll saw 3153 votes lodged.

The Green Party topped the tally with the largest percentage of site votes ending the month on 27%, even with what it achieved in TDB June poll.

Labour led the poll for the first week but then slipped back to end the month with 23% of the total votes for July – that ends up 2% higher than it achieved in the June poll.

The Internet Mana alliance ended the month with 21% of the available votes, down 3% from the June poll.

The National Party achieved 19% of the total vote, up one percentage point since TDB June poll.

ACT finished on 2% even to what it achieved in June.

NZ First finished on 2% even with its result in the June poll; the Conservatives achieved 1% which was down one percentage point since the June poll; The ‘None of the Above’ vote achieved 1%, down one percentage point from June; The Civilian Party finished on 1% down one percent on its June achievement).

The Maori Party finished on 1% even with its June result; and last again was United Future, just registering with only 9 votes out of a total of 3153.

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 next month’s 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.

Click here for previous poll results: June May April March; and February.