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70%: decide on an equal footing how Te Tiriti is honoured

22 Nov 23 – 70% of New Zealanders believe it is important for Māori and non-Māori to decide together on an equal footing how te Tiriti o Waitangi is honoured. This is one of the crucial findings for Aotearoa of a Horizon Research survey conducted for...
News media junk polls live on

4 May 21 – Radio New Zealand's Mediawatch programme reports that news organisations often report the results of informal polls they carry out by embedding surveys in...
The “oh so close” cannabis and end of life choice results

10 Nov 20 – Horizon’s polling in August and September, 2020, found the majorities for legalising and controlling personal use of cannabis could vary between 67,900 against and 139,300 for. The final result was a majority of 67,662...
Cannabis control vote on a tightrope

7 Oct 20 – With early voting now open, the latest independent Horizon survey of nearly 1,500 Kiwis shows the referendum on legalising the personal use of cannabis is incredibly tight when respondents are forced to take a yes or no position. When asked to make a choice between...
Cannabis referendum on knife edge

2 Sep 20 – The referendum on legalising the personal use of cannabis is on a knife-edge. When asked to make a choice between supporting or opposing the Cannabis Legalisation and Control Bill, 49.5% of all respondents in a nationwide Horizon Research survey said they...
Maori stay strongly for cannabis reform

1 Jul 20 – Maori support for legalising the personal use of cannabis and controlling its use is consistently high. In March 2019 a special survey of Maori only for the THREE television programme The Hui, found 75% for...
Yes vote 56% for cannabis law reform

29 Jun 20 – Less than three months out from the General Election, an independent survey of nearly 1,600 Kiwis shows 56% will vote for legalising the personal use of cannabis at the referendum – up from 54% in February. 43% will vote against...
It was April Fools Day - but we weren't joking!

1 Apr 20 – April 1 is perhaps not the best time to advise someone they’ve won our major prize draw. Our winner says: “I did wonder when I heard your message on my mobile if you were having me on. But you’ve staggered me. This couldn’t have come at a better...
Cannabis referendum vote: lead builds for reform

31 Mar 20 – An independent Horizon Research survey of nearly 2,000 New Zealanders reveals 83% don’t believe the prohibition of personal cannabis use is working, and 72% say having controls for growing and selling cannabis for personal use would be better for society. The large...
72% of Maori say they'll vote to enact end of life choice law

9 Mar 20 – A special survey of Maori commissioned by the television programme The Hui finds 72% will vote for the end of Life Choice Act coming into force. 28% said they would vote against the Act. Respondents were told the Act...
The enduring euthanasia majority

8 Jan 20 – Across 7 years of Horizon Research polling on end of life choice, public support has never been below 63%. In fact, 63% was where it started in June 2012. It rose to 65% in May 2018. Since then it has been 70% or higher. ...
Large majority will currently vote to enact End of Life Choice Act

4 Jan 20 – Currently 70% of New Zealanders think they will cast a referendum vote in favour of the End of Life Choice Act becoming law. 30% will vote No to it becoming law, according to the first nationwide poll of eligible voters on referendum...
Turnout a key to referenda results

2 Dec 19 – The 2020 referendum on whether personal use of cannabis should be made legal will pit younger against older New Zealanders. Increasingly it also pits National and New Zealand First voters against Labour and Green ones. Horizon's ...
Support switches to favour legal personal cannabis use

1 Dec 19 – Support for legalising personal cannabis use has risen by 9% in the past quarter, according to the country’s only 12-month tracking survey on how New Zealanders would vote in the Government's binding referendum next year. The large November survey...
Vote for personal cannabis use reform falls to 39%

22 Aug 19 – The prospect of ending wider cannabis prohibition looks increasingly unlikely. Over the last nine months, the percentage of New Zealanders who would vote for legalising the personal use of cannabis has declined at a near linear rate of around 10% per quarter. Support is now well below a...
Specialist sign-off for cannabis would strain health sector

2 Aug 19 – An independent survey of over 700 healthcare professionals reveals genuine concern that New Zealand’s health sector would struggle to cope if ‘specialist sign-off’ is required before a GP can prescribe medicinal cannabis. Public consultation closes in...
Potential market for medicinal cannabis: 1 million adults

20 May 19 – Over 400,000 New Zealanders say they would definitely seek out medicinal cannabis products when they become widely available from 2020, according to a first of its kind survey by Horizon Research. Gearing up to meet such significant demand, the country’s largest...
74% say yes to end of life choice law

10 May 19 – As Parliament prepares to vote on the End of Life Choice Bill this month, a new poll shows a clear majority of New Zealanders want to allow doctors to help the terminally ill, enduring unbearable suffering, to die. A Horizon Research poll confirms consistent surveys...
Cannabis referendum will pass, gap narrows

9 May 19 – Horizon polling shows the Government's 2020 referendum on the personal use of recreational cannabis would pass - but the result might be closer than was indicated six months earlier. The new independent survey of over 1,100 New Zealanders, commissioned by Helius...
Medical profession willing to prescribe medicinal cannabis

17 Apr 19 – Nearly half of all medical professionals surveyed have had patients or others ask for medicinal cannabis prescriptions in the past 12 months. This has been the case for 63% of general practitioners and 77% of head pharmacists, according to a Horizon Research survey of...
75% of Maori will vote to legalise personal use of cannabis

4 Mar 19 – TV3 programme, The Hui, has revealed the results of a special Horizon Research poll of 620 Māori, providing interesting insights into Māori attitudes towards cannabis. Seventy-five percent of Māori participating in the survey said...
60% indicate they'll vote to legalise personal cannabis use

14 Jan 19 – An independent survey of nearly 1,000 New Zealanders reveals the Government's 2020 referendum on recreational cannabis use would gain 60% support. New Zealand's largest licensed medicinal cannabis company, Helius Therapeutics, has released the result after commissioning...
Poll says treat medicinal cannabis like other medicines

10 Dec 18 – A new survey of more than 2,000 Kiwi adults finds they overwhelmingly want doctors and nurse practitioners to be able to prescribe medicinal cannabis as they see fit, on a patient by patient basis, and for it to be treated like any other medicine in New Zealand. However,...
68% want binding referendum on medical aid in dying

3 Oct 18 – New Zealanders want a binding referendum on proposed End of Life Choice law. A HorizonPoll finds 68% say yes to having a binding referendum, 33% say no. The result overwhelmingly supports a New Zealand First proposal...
Most accurate flag poll

16 Dec 15 – Horizon Research had the most accurate poll results on the alternative New Zealand flag: just 0.17% out. Final results from the Electoral Commission released on December 15,...
Close voting result likely between the colourful silver fern flags

8 Dec 15 – Voting in the referendum to choose an alternative New Zealand flag is likely to narrowly favour the design featuring the Silver Fern with Black, White and Blue. It wins marginally over the Silver Fern with Red,...
57% say completely cancel asset sales after “No” vote

14 Dec 13 – A Horizon Research poll which correctly called the result of the asset sales referendum also found that 57% of New Zealanders wanted all future sales cancelled if the referendum result opposed sales. The official preliminary referendum result is 67.2% against and 32.5% for...
Referendum poll: 69.3% against partial state asset sales

24 Oct 13 – A poll using the question being asked in the November-December referendum finds 69.3% will vote against partial sale of state assets. 30.7% say yes when asked “do you support the Government selling up to 49% of Meridian Energy, Mighty River Power, Genesis Power,...
Why Kiwis won't swallow party pill tests on animals

22 Apr 13 – Why do 72.3% of adult New Zealanders want guidelines for or a ban on party pill testing? These comments represent the range of views expressed for and against in a HorizonPoll surve...
Maori split on whether they own water rights

10 Jul 12 – While 90% of Maori don’t think state energy assets should be sold off until the Waitangi Tribunal reports on the issue, less than half believe Maori own water in the country’s rivers and lakes and should be able to attach a value to it. ...
Public back compulsory savings policy idea

22 Jun 12 – New Zealanders are firmly in favour of making contributions to employees’ personal retirement savings accounts compulsory. The Financial Services Council (FSC) has released results of a HorizonPoll, saying it has not taken a position on whether savings contributions...
MMP: Horizon 56% - votes cast 55.76%

27 Nov 11 – Horizon’s final pre-election survey found 56% of the votes cast would be to not change the Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) voting system. The official preliminary...
MMP: 50% say keep it

23 Nov 11 – 56% of votes cast in this weekend's referendum will be to keep the Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) system. Overall, 50% will vote for it, 39.8% against, while 10.1% say they won’t vot...
Public mandates one of four major Budget policy proposals

22 May 11 – The first nationwide post-Budget HorizonPoll shows the Government would not get a mandate to make changes to KiwiSaver, sell up to 49% of state-owned energy company shares or reduce its shareholding in Air New Zealand. It would get a mandate to make changes to the Working...