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Labor deputy chief Kelvin Davis has a strong lead in Te Tai Tokerau’s Maori electorate in new polls.
A Māori Television-Curia Research electorate vote poll, covering Northland, places Davis with 36% of the vote, ahead of the Maori party candidate Mariameno Kapa-Kingi, with 18%.
However, 32 percent were undecided and 7 percent refused to say who they would vote for.
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Kelvin Davis visiting Te Puia in Rotorua as Minister of Tourism.
According to poll results to date, the Maori Party continues to view Waiariki as its best chance to win a seat, with Rawiri Waititi being 12 percent behind Labor incumbent Tāmati Coffey.
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In the North, the top issues in the survey of 500 eligible voters were the economy, 11 percent, and housing, 11 percent.
There was strong support for the legalization of cannabis in the upcoming referendum, mirroring the other Maori electorates surveyed, with 54% in favor of legalization and 29% against.
Again, the majority of respondents would vote in favor of the Election Act at the end of life, with 51% in favor and 27% against. There were 22% undecided.
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Maori Party Candidate for Te Tai Tokerau Mariameno Kapa-Kingi.
For the first time in this election’s polls, a figure adjusted to exclude those undecided or who refused to give preference to their candidate was included, which saw Davis at 59 percent and Kapa-Kingi at 29 percent. .
Te Kahika was pushed up to 1 percent.
By the numbers
Maori television polls of the Ikaroa-Rāwhiti Maori electorate gave Labor’s Meka Whaitiri a 27% lead over her closest rival, Maori Party candidate Heather Te Au-Skipworth.
Ikaroa-Rāwhiti covers the east coast of the North Island stretching from rural Gisborne to Wainuiomata in the south.
Polls in Te Tai Hauāuru showed that 38 percent intended to vote for Adrian Rurawhe of the Labor Party and 20 percent for Debbie Ngarewa-Packer of the Maori Party.
The saving grace for Ngarewa-Packer was that about a third of the voters were still undecided. The electorate ranges from Tirau in Waikato to Porirua.
Labor Nanaia Mahuta was advancing in Hauraki-Waikato, 47% ahead of her Maori Party rival Donna Pokere-Phillips.
Meanwhile, in Te Tai Tonga, the electorate covering the entire South Island and Wellington, the current Rino Tirikatene Labor Party was at 37 percent. Maori Party candidate Tākuta Ferris ranked third with 11%, behind 19% who chose to back a party that had no candidates.
