It’s ‘game on’ for the election in September, with Judith Collins at the helm of the National Party. It’s absolutely catching... people can see a way through.”When it comes to National voters at least, the 2020 Stuff/Massey Univeristy election survey seems to agree. Prior to the leadership change, the number of people responding to the survey who said they would probably vote National stood at 23.7 per cent support. But those numbers changed markedly after the leadership change, with 31.7 naming Collins, while Ardern dropped to 47.2 per cent. In 2017, for instance, when Andrew Little was Labour leader and none of the major polls were picking up a mood for change, the Massey survey tapped into a powerful groundswell of discontent.

Source: Stuff July 25, 2020 16:52 UTC