Saturday, November 8, 2008

New Zealand Election night results, November 8 2008




You can watch live video streaming New Zealand Election coverage at TV3 and TV One or audio from Radio New Zealand from 7.00pm Saturday 8 November 2008.




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Your day of democracy

Saturday November 8 2008. A day where you have the chance to cast your ballot to make it known who you want to run your country for the next 3 years.


People have died for the right for you to have your say. In some countries around the world people cannot vote, some die for voting a particular way.

Whoever you vote for, and for whatever reason, you need to get out there and put your two ticks on the ballot paper.


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Friday, November 7, 2008

POLL: Political Animal Poll, 7 November 2008

With the election tomorrow the Political Animal Blog Election poll shows a strong lead for National, with Act making a good showing. Naturally because this blog attracts more voters who might vote for a party other than Labour, The Greens and NZ First, National is showing a strong lead.

I am picking a big win for the Nats tomorrow, not as big as this poll but bigger than other bigger polls are picking.

The poll was taken with approx 146 votes cast and has a largish margin of error.



Party Vote

National
  88 (60%)
 
Labour
  22 (15%)
 
Greens
  6 (4%)
 
NZ First
  4 (2%)
 
Act
  17 (11%)
 
United Future
  1 (0%)
Alliance
  3 (2%)
 
Maori Party
  0 (0%)
Other
  5 (3%)
 

Votes so far: 146

Constituent Vote

National
  92 (62%)
 
Labour
  22 (14%)
 
Greens
  3 (2%)
 
NZ First
  3 (2%)
 
Act
  10 (6%)
 
United Future
  1 (0%)
Alliance
  3 (2%)
 
Maori Party
  6 (4%)
 
Other
  7 (4%)
 


Votes so far: 147 


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POLL: NZ Herald Digipoll,November 7 2008

The New Zealand Herald Digipoll for November 7 2008 shows the Nats ahead by just under 12 points, the lowest margin of all the polls out in the last 24 hours. The  TV3 TNS and Colmar Brunton had similar margins, while today's Fairfax Nielson poll has National ahead by 18 points.


It shows National could form a new government with micro-parties Act and United Future. The three parties would have 64 seats between them, two more than the majority needed.

They would not need the support of the Maori Party to govern, although National leader John Key has said he would try to work with the party even if he did not need it.

National's support has fallen 2.5 points in the past fortnight to 47.9 per cent.

It is the first time it has been below 50 per cent since March this year.

But Mr Key is well ahead as preferred Prime Minister, with 46.2 per cent support, compared to Helen Clark's 41.6 per cent. More

Clark has come out today and said her polling suggests she will win on November 7.


Herald Digipolls


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