The NZ Herald editorial today analyses the coalition preferences of minor parties folowing the most recent Herald DigiPoll result.
This year the monthly Herald-DigiPoll surveys have begun asking each party's supporters for their most preferred coalition. The results are interesting.
New Zealand First's voters, for instance, would prefer National over Labour by 90.9 per cent to 9.1 per cent. All voters for United Future would prefer the party to back National. Yet NZ First and United Future have kept Labour in power this term.
Voters for the Maori Party have registered the greatest change. In January, none of them wanted the party to help National form a government; last month 42.9 per cent of them would prefer that it did so. The shift may owe much to leader John Key's embrace of Maori activists at Waitangi.
Those wonderful political brains in the media who constantly tell us that National has no coalition options post election might like to read this.
