new research reveals what really swung New Zealand's 2020 'COVID election'
- Written by Josh Van Veen, Research Associate, Public Policy Institute, University of Auckland

Nine months out from the 2020 election, opinion polls suggested it would be a close race between Labour and National. But that all changed with the arrival of the global pandemic.
COVID came to dominate the policy and political agenda from March 2020, ensuring Labour focused its re-election campaign firmly on its pandemic response. As...
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