Neck and neck on November 1-5 campaign performance

National and Labour's campaign performances between November 1and 5 are rated almost neck and neck.

A RadioLIVE-HorizonPoll of 1636 respondents nationwide finds the parties' campaigns rating just 2% apart.

Labour’s election campaign rates best with 50.5% saying it is good to excellent.

Act’s campaign rates worse, with 48.6% saying it is poor, very poor or bad.

National’s campaign is rated 46.1% good to excellent, 25.5% poor, very poor to bad.

Other respondents were neutral or not sure

OVERALL MAIN PARTY COALITION PREFERENCE

42.4% would prefer a National-led coalition after the election

40.1% would prefer a Labour-led coalition (a 2.3% gap)

This has reduced from a 5.5% preference for a National-led coalition in the previous week's polling.

This survey is weighted by age, gender, personal income, region, ethnicity and party vote 2008 to provide a representative sample of the New Zealand population.

Maximum margin of error at a 95% confidence level is +/- 2.4%.

About 58% of interviews were completed on November 1.