3 Nov 2011

National maintains lead in latest TVNZ poll

7:37 pm on 3 November 2011

It is one week into the election campaign and there are few changes in the parties' fortunes, according to the latest political poll.

In the ONE News Colmar Brunton poll released on Thursday night the National Party has 56% support - the same as its poll in October.

The Labour and Green parties also remain about the same - at 30% and 9%, respectively.

The Greens are the only smaller party registering above the 5% threshold needed to get into Parliament.

New Zealand First has 2.2% support, while the Maori Party is on 1.3%.

ACT, the Mana Party and United Future all have less than 1% support.

The poll was taken between Saturday and Wednesday this week and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1%.