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Polling Volatility

9 items · 7 aliases · peaked week of 10 May 2026 · first seen 10 May 2026

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon addresses concerns over party unity, polling inconsistencies, and internal dissent, emphasizing strong economic management and stable governance as key to national success.

Volume by source orientation Methodology →

Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.

Alias drift

How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.

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In the press Methodology →

How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 2 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.

12-week press volume 2 articles
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Heard on radio

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  • I think there's a couple of things going on. One is, without getting too Connie the commentator on you, but if you look at MMP environments around the world, and the European environments are similar, the electoral system that we've had, that has now matured. We are 30 years down the road. We're in a post-COVID world. world, you're going to have brands of political parties that are trying to activate certain small groups of constituents in order to get that reflected into a government. You know, the Dutch who I've looked at, they've gone back through an election after, you know, they've gone through another before government fell apart, four party coalition. But there are some coalitions throughout Europe that are 11 parties and not one of them will have more than 17 or 18% support. So that is the reality of where MMP ultimately goes. And it doesn't matter whether it's a Labour-led. coalition or a national-led coalition, you have to allow room for other parties in an MMP world. It's not first past the post in world.
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Sample framings

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the-kaka Centre-left

both parties face declining public support

Wednesday's Early Bird: $3 of benefit for each $1 spent on social housing
12 May

5-point gap seen as uncertain with 6 months to go

Open Mike 11/05/2026
10 May
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How the public reacted

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