New Zealand's Labor party has closed the gap on the opposition National party to 11 points in the new TV3 political opinion poll, the latest in a series of surveys indicating a tightening race.
The TV3/TNS poll had Labour up 2 percentage points to 37 and National steady on 48. National's 11-point lead over Labour is down from a 15-point margin in the same poll in May, the New Zealand Herald reported on Monday.
Prime Minister Helen Clark said the trend coming through in polling was positive, but there was still a lot of work for her party to do.
She predicted the gap would close further as the election neared.
"I think it's going to come down to who do you trust the future of your family and country with, the people who have been trustworthy or the ones that people don't really know too much about," she said.
As preferred prime minister, Helen Clark was up three points to 31 percent and National leader John Key up two points to 34. The poll of 1,000 voters has a margin of error of 3.1 percent.
Source: Xinhua
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