Three way race for Wellington Central

A Newshub Nation Reid Research poll found:

Party Vote

• National 28% (+14% from 2020)
• Labour 28% (-16%)
• Greens 27% (-3%)
• ACT 6% (+1%)
• TOP 5%
• Te Pati Maori 3%
• NZ First 3%

Candidate Vote

• Labour/Ibrahim Omer 31% (-27% from 2020)
• National/Scott Sheeran 28% (+10%)
• Greens/Tamatha Paul 27% (+9%)
• NZ First/Taylor Arneil 5.1%
• ACT (no candidate) 3.5%
• ALCP/Michael Appleby 2.9%
• TOP/Natalia Albert 2.8%

This is a very good result for National and Scott Sheeran. Omer is an incumbent (List) MP and Paul an incumbent City Councillor yet Sheeran is ahead of Paul and just behind Omer.

ACT are not standing in Wellington Central, so their 3.5% is likely to go to Sheeran also. It is a very tight three way race, which is amazing considering Robertson has a 19,000 majority.