Colmar Brunton polling shows strong public support for the Government handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, with 87% of people saying the approve or strongly approve, with only 9% disapproving.
A poll was done from 3-5 April after the Level 4 lockdown had started, and another has been done from 20-21 April, after the move to Level 3 lockdown was announced on Monday.
The latest poll: How much do you approve or disapprove of how your Government is responding to the Covid-19 pandemic?
- Strongly approve 68% (up from 55%)
- Somewhat approve 19% (down from 29%)
- Total approve 87% (up from 84%)
- Somewhat disapprove 5% (down from 6%
- Strongly disapprove 3% (no change)
- Total disapprove 8% (down from 9%)
- Neither approve nor disapprove 4% (down from 6%)
- Don’t know 1% (up from 0)
Colmar Brunton, Margin of error +/- 4%
The poll was conducted via 601 online interviews with New Zealanders over the age of 18 between April 20 and 21.
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Colmar Brunton pollster Edward Langley said New Zealand seemed to be seeing “something special” in the number of new Covid-19 cases each day.
“People feel there’s light there at the end of the tunnel which other nations haven’t seen”.
“I think we are seeing something special. We are setting aside our party political affiliations and we’re getting behind the Government”.
New Zealand support is much higher than G7 countries:
- Average for G7 countries 50% support their Government (down from 54% two weeks ago)
- Canada 74% support
- France 43% (down from 61%)
- USA 46% support (down from 52%)
France continues with a high death rate currently running at over 500 deaths per day.
USA has the highest total cases (866,148) and deaths (48,868). Deaths increased by 2,341 yesterday. Support there is dropping along with President Trumps approval (and he is publicly arguing with one of his top health officials again today).