National Leadership results
We now have over 2,000 votes in the Kiwiblog reader survey for preferred leader and deputy leader for National. The results are:
Leader
- Christopher Luxon 26.4%
- Shane Reti 21.7%
- Simon Bridges 18.2%
- Mark Mitchell 7.4%
- Chris Bishop 6.9%
- Nicola Willis 6.7%
- Erica Stanford 2.8%
- Chris Penk 1.5%
- Maureen Pugh 1.1%
- Andrew Bayly 1.0%
- Simon O’Connor 0.9%
- Melissa Lee 0.8%
- Gerry Brownlee 0.8%
- Ian McKelvie 0.8%
- Simeon Brown 0.6%
- Todd Muller 0.5%
- Harete Hipango 0.3%
- Paul Goldsmith 0.3%
- Nicola Grigg 0.2%
- Michael Woodhouse 0.2%
- Matt Doocey 0.2%
- David Bennett 0.1%
- Jacqui Dean 0.1%
- Todd McClay 0.1%
- Joseph Mooney 0.1%
- Penny Simmonds 0.1%
- Scott Simpson 0.1%
- Barbara Kuriger 0.1%
- Simon Watts 0.1%
Deputy Leader
- Nicola Willis 31.3%
- Erica Stanford 17.3%
- Shane Reti 17.1%
- Chris Bishop 6.6%
- Christopher Luxon 5.2%
- Simon Bridges 3.8%
- Mark Mitchell 2.8%
- Melissa Lee 1.7%
- Simeon Brown 1.4%
- Chris Penk 1.3%
- Andrew Bayly 1.2%
- Gerry Brownlee 1.2%
- Nicola Grigg 1.2%
- Paul Goldsmith 1.1%
- Simon O’Connor 0.9%
- Louise Upston 0.8%
- Harete Hipango 0.8%
- Maureen Pugh 0.7%
- Jacqui Dean 0.6%
- Todd Muller 0.6%
- Barbara Kuriger 0.5%
- Ian McKelvie 0.5%
- Michael Woodhouse 0.3%
- Matt Doocey 0.2%
- Penny Simmons 0.2%
- Scott Simpson 0.2%
- Todd McClay 0.2%
- Joseph Mooney 0.2%
- Stuart Smith 0.2%
- David Bennett 0.1%
- Simon Watts 0.1%
So the six most popular choices for Leader are Luxon, Reti, Bridges, Mitchell, Bishop and Willis.
The four most popular for Deputy Leader are Willis, Stanford, Reti and Bishop.
In terms of potential combinations, the most popular combinations were
- Luxon/Willis 11.2%
- Reti/Willis 8.3%
- Luxon/Stanford 5.4%
- Bridges/Willis 4.7%
- Luxon/Reti 4.7%
- Reti/Stanford 4.2%
- Bridges/Stanford 3.9%
- Bridges/Reti 3.3%
- Bishop/Willis 2.9%
- Willis/Reti 2.8%
- Mitchell/Willis 2.5%
So the preferred combination are Luxon/Willis followed by Reti/Willis and Luxon/Stanford
On Tuesday we’ll find out who caucus picks.