Election 2026

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Senior Political Correspondent Barry Soper joins Heather du Plessis-Allan to review the week in politics.  The polls have yielded a mixed bag of results, but National still aren't looking good.  The Opportunity party proposed a Future Generations Commissioner, who would remove the polit…

National's brought out the big guns after a poor poll result. Former Prime Minister John Key has posted a video on social media today, urging National supporters to get out and vote. This comes after yesterday's RNZ Reid Research poll - which had support for National dipping to 24.8 percent - whi…

ACT Leader David Seymour said it's "very possible" he'd ask to be Finance Minister if the coalition was re-elected.  Speaking to Canterbury Mornings, Seymour told John MacDonald it's possible the current holder of the Finance portfolio, Nicola Willis, may not be returned to Parliament. "Firs…

Possible overhangs, high voter turnout, lower enrolment, and the Opportunity Party all mean the outcome of the election is too close to call, former Labour leader Phil Goff says.  “Come Election Night, by midnight we may well not know who is going to govern New Zealand and that may take a cou…

Former Prime Minister Sir John Key is repeating a call not to engage in strategic voting, saying it's "not a smart idea" to split the vote.  He told Mike Hosking the centre-right political party, the biggest party in the parliament, needs to have a strong core.   "If you eat away at tha…

So, the winner in week... what is it, five or six?  The winner in week five of the election campaign was the polls. Not the pollsters. The polls.  They were far from winners. The spread, the margin of error in some, is now so absurd they're writing articles about it.  Ironically, …

The short week has come to a close, which means it's time for Kate Hawkesby and Tim Wilson to help Mike Hosking Wrap the Week that Was.  They unpack how the election campaign has gone with just one more week until the big day and discuss the new programme the Ministry of Education is rolling …

National has dropped below 25 percent in the latest RNZ-Reid Research poll, and it's sparked concerns among the party.  Leader Chris Luxon broke his own rule and warned voters to not let this poll become a reality - and urged National faithful to get out and vote.  The party's campaign …

It's likely two people who claim they voted more than once - which is illegal - would have been caught out even if they hadn't bragged on social media. The Electoral Commission has referred these two people to police. Constitutional law expert Graeme Edgeler says alarms are raised if a voter's na…