MPs on the purchase age
The Herald has surveyed MPs on where they stand on the drinking age. They have a story, and full results.
I’ve summarised the results, by party. They are:
| 18 | Split | 20 | Unknown | Total | |
| National | 5 | 16 | 6 | 31 | 58 |
| Labour | 6 | 19 | 8 | 9 | 42 |
| Green | 1 | 8 | 9 | ||
| ACT | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |
| Maori | 3 | 2 | 5 | ||
| United | 1 | 1 | |||
| Prog | 1 | ||||
| Ind | 1 | 1 | |||
| Total | 19 | 38 | 15 | 50 | 122 |
So MPs for 18 are slightly ahead of 20, but a third of the Parliament favours a split age. What will be important is if a split age is defeated, will those MPs then vote for 18 or 20.