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While Jacinda Ardern is ahead of the competition in the sympathy ranking, she is the second-place person to surprise.
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There is a politician who jumped several positions in the ranking. Source: 1 NEWS
More than 218,000 New Zealanders have used TVNZ’s Vote Compass tool to see where they fit on the political spectrum.
Participants were asked to rate each of the party leaders, on a scale of zero to 10, with zero being not pleasant and 10 being very pleasant.
Rankings – Average Scores
Jacinda Ardern, Labor, 6.8
Judith Collins, 3.8, National
Marama Davidson, Green, 3.7 and James Shaw, Green, 3.7
Winston Peters, New Zealand First, 3
Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, Maori Party, 2.6
John Tamihere, Maori Party, 2.4
Leighton Baker, new curator, 1.9
A highlight of the results is ACT party leader David Seymour.
While she is more than two points behind Labor leader Jacinda Ardern, she is overtaking national leader Judith Collins.
Auckland University Associate Professor Jennifer Lees-Marshment says it’s a surprising result.
“I think it’s a reflection of David’s involvement in Dancing with the Stars, which brought attention to him and his party,” he said.
“Consolidate that with something like the End of Life Choice Bill, so you’ve given it some substance and stardust.”
National leader Judith Collins scored just above her Green Party counterparts on sympathy ratings, with a score of 3.8.
In 2017, Bill English earned a score of 5.2. Lees-Marshment says the numbers will be a warning sign for the party.
“They are losing the support not only of the general population, but also of their own supporters.”
A further breakdown of the Vote Compass results shows that National Party supporters are giving David Seymour a high score, along with Judith Collins.
“They need to do something important to reconnect with the voters in the few weeks we have of the election campaign.”
To participate in Vote Compass, a survey tool that shows users how their opinions match party policies, go to the Vote Compass page.
Developed by a team of social scientists and statisticians from Vox Pop Labs, Vote Compass is a civic engagement app offered in New Zealand exclusively by TVNZ. The findings are based on 85,915 respondents who participated in Vote Compass from August 30, 2020 to September 20, 2020.
Unlike online opinion polls, Vote Compass respondents are not shortlisted. However, as in opinion polls, the data is a non-random sample of the population and has been weighted to approximate a representative sample. The Vote Compass data has been weighted by gender, age, education, language, region and previous vote to ensure that the composition of the sample reflects that of the actual New Zealand population based on census data and other population estimates.
