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Sketchy survey ruffles feathers in the capital

09:10 am on 18 September 2022

Sketchy survey ruffles feathers in the capital

A headline in the Dominion Post this week claimed there was “a clear favourite” among the candidates for Wellington’s Mayor in a “straw poll” capital’s daily itself had run online. But it acknowledged its result was entirely unscientific - and a proper poll out this weekend has a different result.

The Dominion Post's report on the result of its own "straw poll" on candidates for Mayor in the upcoming local elections. Photo: RNZ Mediawatch