Maori voters poll
November 9th, 2009 at 5:56 am by David FarrarI’ve blogged at Curiablog, the details of a Marae Digipoll. It has 700 voters from the Maori roll, and 300 from the general roll (but of Maori descent).
There’s several fascinating aspects to it.
- Party Vote is Maori Party 48%, Labour 26% and National 20%. Now in the 2008 election, in the Maori seats, the party vote was Maori Party 29%, Labour 50% and National 7%. Now this can’t be directly compared due to inclusion of general roll voters (I have asked if there is a breakdown) but regardless that a big boost upwards for the Maori Party and National.
- Maori Party at 57% on electorate vote. Will this hold up for them to win the sixth and seventh seat off Labour?
- John Key at seven times the support of Phil Goff as Preferred PM. This is a National Party leader. Goff is in 5th place amongst Maori.
- Approval of John Key is at 55% amongst Maori.
- In terms of most effective Maori MP, the top Labour MP (Parekura Horomia) is at 3%, in 5th place.
- While 68% of Maori Party supporters back the decision to go into Government with National, most want them to be in Cabinet – not Ministers outside Cabinet.
I’ve said for some time that Labour’s strategy of attacking the Maori Party is a strategic blunder. This poll confirms it, in my opinion.
Related posts:
- Maori Labour voters want Goff gone
- Labour second choice of Maori on both rolls
- Maori voters supporting National
- 2011 Te Karere Digi-poll
November 9th, 2009 at 6:42 am
What the hell, the most effective Maori MP is a useless record pie eater who should be employed as a tunnel support meanwhile John Wee disregards the shameful comments of another magpie racist scumbag MP that calls everybody that is not bro, a white motherfucker? This country is a cot case study in weak leadership and brainless parasitic scumbag politicians. Would a real leader stand up and obliterate the Maori Party and do the public of New Zealand a huge favour. These disgraceful time wasters should not be tolerated for another minute.
Vote:November 9th, 2009 at 6:44 am
I’ve said for some time that Labour’s strategy of attacking the Maori Party is a strategic blunder.
Agreed.
Vote:November 9th, 2009 at 8:03 am
Labour attack the Maori Party because they are their political enemy. Labour’s vision for maori is to pay them welfare and then shut up. They do not want them to have an economic base independent of the state. They don’t want that for the General population also. But Maori are the most state dependent and Labour wants them to stay that way. It is called socialism or sustainability if you prefer their modern term.
Vote:November 9th, 2009 at 8:12 am
Dear Leader thought the State / Labor party owned Maoris. Dear Leader went sow on Maoris in general when MP was formed. Labor think Maoris are ingrates but like little wayward children will come back to Labor with the begging bowl in due course.
Labor is counting that Maori know their place.
Vote:November 9th, 2009 at 8:16 am
Mr Harawira can take no joy from this poll either and that is a might good thing The Maori Party is moving away from the rabid brown neck element as evinced by his 6% rating.
Vote:November 9th, 2009 at 8:20 am
tvb – And the Maori Party is any different? This is a party that sees Maori seats (tokenism) and free home insulation (charity) as good things for ‘their people’. I doubt the Maori Party gives a shit at what Labour says, come election time they’ll go with the party that’ll give them the best deal to suck on whities tax paying tit even more. A lot of Maoris still think handouts – on the basis of race – are the best option whether they admit it or not. Fucking disgraceful we have a race based party in our government.
Vote:November 9th, 2009 at 8:42 am
The Labore party academic & rainbow collective ‘know better than thou’ brigade never forgave those Cheeky Darkies (CD’s) from upping sticks (Ratana and the MP).
The ‘collective wisdom’ (a lefty oxymoron if ever there was one) that the CD’s would bollox things up hasn’t come true, in fact roles have been reversed on this one with the CD’s playing a judicious game while the Labore party have circle jerked themselves into state on impotence.
Vote:November 9th, 2009 at 8:50 am
The Maori Party is nothing but a motley array of individuals looking for ways to advance their race. Yes, that means more freebies and handouts solely based on race lines.
I reject that notion and do believe NZ would be better off without the racist Maori Party.
Vote:November 9th, 2009 at 9:27 am
In the past Labour took the Maori vote for granted; they still believe that Maori will return to their senses and support the Left. But why would they? Maori aspirations are very much middle class, they are accumulating collective wealth, and are at least acknowledging the problems of welfare dependency. They are not a downtrodden working class, nor do they have the class war baggage imported from Britain. In fact they were not welcome in the Unions in earlier days, unionists were happy to have others worse off than themselves. It is no accident that the Maori party is becoming increasingly comfortable with working with the Nats because they share the same aspirations, and are not subjected to the patronizing afttitude of the socialists.
Vote:November 9th, 2009 at 10:40 am
“I’ve said for some time that Labour’s strategy of attacking the Maori Party is a strategic blunder.”
What a shame the National Party do not have the integrity to also attack this openly racist group of evil apartheidists simply by declaring ALL racism undesirable.
Vote:November 9th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
Any race-based party should be treated with about as much respect and tolerance as the BNP in the UK. I’m so sick of this racial division being promoted constantly in politics and the media about what “Maori” want. It’s a corrosive and cancerous stain on the fabric of our society and democracy. National doesn’t have any balls to do what’s right, whether it’s taking drastic action to eliminate race-based privilege and preferences or rescue the our economy and nation from drowning in a sea of red ink. New Zealanders voted for “change” and got the same old, same old.
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