0 100 days to go

UPDATE: There seems to be a glitch in the system, so we've taken the poll down for a wee while. Like the Labour Party with all its promises, the system doesn't seem to be counting at the moment...

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The Herald notes that there are just 100 days to go before New Zealand goes to the polls on 20 September 2014.

To mark the occasion, we've kicked off our June political poll a day early. We've also combined the Internet and Mana Party, given Kim Dotcom's recent purchase of Hone Harawira's party.

As usual, the poll will close on the 20th of the month at 7pm. It will then be three months to the minute to when the polls close for the 2014 General Election.

We realise that this poll is completely unscientific; we don't need to be told that! But it's our blog, and we decide what gets published here, so polling it is!!

Thanks in advance for taking part. We'll report back when the polls close.

0 Quelle surprise...

As regular readers will be aware, Martyn Bradbury is paid by several unions to run the Daily Blog. He's also paid by his bestie Kim, and the reason for that is now apparent.

The Daily Blog is, like us, running unscientific election polls. Here's the latest one, sent to us by a reader who took one for the team and ventured over there:

It's interesting that Martyn Bradbury's blog is the only place that has MegaMana featuring prominently in a poll. Perhaps Martyn has been spending his days voting, deleting the cookie, voting, deleting the cookie, voting etc etc.

But it's also interesting that at a blog funded by the union movement, with many of said unions affiliated to the Labour Party, Labour is trailing both MegaMana and the Greens, with a mere 20% of the vote. 

If Labour can only register 20% of the vote on a blog which should be friendly towards it, the party is going to be in big trouble when it goes to the country in September.


Footnote: The latest Keeping Stock political poll will go up on Friday morning, and will remain open until 7pm on Friday 20th June; exactly three months from the moment when the polls close in the 2014 General Election.

0 The Keeping Stock Political Poll - May 2014

Our most recent political poll closed at 7pm on Tuesday night. 320 people exercised their choice, an increase from the numbers who participated in April. 

There wasn't a lot of change this month, and David Cunliffe will be grateful that Labour was up two percentage points to 2%. Here are the results, in graphical form:

Some commenters have suggested that these polls are a waste of time, given our obvious political leanings. We reject that.

We make no claim that these polls are in any way scientific, and we accept that they are likely to be skewed in favour of right-leaning parties. But anyone can visit Keeping Stock, and pretty much every month the number of people visiting our blog increases; except when we take holidays! The polls are open to anyone who wants to express an opinion, whatever their politics are.

The polls are what they are, and we will continue with them until the General Election on 20 September.

0 Have your say

Our third Keeping Stock Political Poll has been up for a few days. As usual, it will close at 7pm tomorrow night, precisely four months before the real polls close on September 20th.

We invite you to have your say, whether you're a regular reader or whether you've just stopped by for a look. We don't pretend that the poll is in any way scientific, but it's a chance for anyone to express an opinion.

We'll blog the results on Wednesday morning. But in the meantime, we encourage you to take a moment and make your choice, completely anonymously.

0 The Keeping Stock political poll #2

Our second Keeping Stock political poll has closed. Less people voted than in our first poll in March, but given that the poll ran in the run-up to Easter Sunday, that is not surprising. 

But the results were even more emphatic than last time, as can be seen in the comparative chart below:

This biggest surprise once again was the almost complete lack of support for the David Cunliffe-led Labour Party. Only two of the almost-300 people who took the time to express an opinion ticked Labour as their preferred choice for their party vote.

Now we know that we are a right-leaning blog, and make no apologies for that. But we also know that plenty of people who disagree with our views visit here and comment. For the second month in a row, Labour was out-scored by the Greens. Is it possible that after the election on 20 September we could have co-Leaders of the Opposition?

We will continue this totally unscientific experiment, if for no other reason than because we can! Our next poll will go up around the May 13th, and will close at 7pm on May 20th; four months to the very minute before the real McCoy does on 20 September 2014.

Thanks to all of you who expressed an opinion.

0 The next Keeping Stock Political Poll

We've just loaded up our second Keeping Stock Political Poll for the 2014 General Election. You can vote up until 7pm on Sunday 20th April, which will be exactly five months before the polls close on election day.

We had an exceptionally good response to our poll last month, and it will be interesting to see if this poll has a similar trend. That's of course only going to happen if people express an opinion, so the ball's in your court.

We will continue this polling in the week leading up to the 20th of each month up until September. We've been out of town over the weekend, hence the delay in getting this poll up and running.

Thanks (in anticipation!) for participating. We look forward to sharing the results with you soon after polling ends.