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Greens are in a "really good place" heading into election year, Swarbrick says

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Wed, 7 Jan 2026, 10:33am
Greens Co-Leader Chlöe Swarbrick. Photo / Mark Mitchell
Greens Co-Leader Chlöe Swarbrick. Photo / Mark Mitchell

Greens are in a "really good place" heading into election year, Swarbrick says

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Wed, 7 Jan 2026, 10:33am

Despite a wobble in the polls last year, Green Party Co-Leader Chlöe Swarbrick thinks the party is in a good place. 

Over this term the party's reached as high as 15% in some surveys, but it dropped to 7% in the last 1News Verian poll of 2025. 

Swarbrick told Andrew Dickens she’s proud of the plans they’ve put on the table and thinks they’re in a really good place going into election year.  

She says New Zealanders have agency, and so they shouldn’t just watch the polls and think that’s their future set in stone. 

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