Past Internet polls
Here you will the results of 15 opinion polls related to smacking,
discipline, and Section 59
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Anti-Smacking poll
Do you support Sue Bradford's Anti-smacking Bill?
70% No
30% Yes
total votes:
43182
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Listener poll
Should smacking be:
4% Outlawed in all circumstances
96% Permitted in some circumstances, within reason
TVNZ poll
Will a smacking ban stop you from smacking your children?
Yes: 9%
No: 86%I don't smack them anyway: 5%
Gisborne Herald poll
Should the bill to ban smacking children be passed?
Yes: 12%
No: 86%
Don't know: 2%
Total Votes: 348
TV3 poll 2
Do you support an outright ban on
smacking children?
Yes: 9%
No:
90%Not sure: 2%
Stuff poll
Would you like to see Sue Bradford's smacking bill watered down?
Results as at 3:00pm 13 March 2007
Yes (2121 votes, 55.9%)
No (524 votes, 13.8%)
The bill should be dumped altogether (1148 votes, 30.3%)
Yahoo poll
Should light smacking still be legal when the new bill goes through?
Results as at 3:00pm Tuesday 13 March 2007 4497 votes since Mar 12 2007
Yes: 93% 4166 votes
No: 7% 302 votes
Undecided: 1% 29 votes
Young Labour poll
Should Section 59 be repealed?
Results at 1:55pm 13 March 2007
Yes: 1182 (39.8%)
No: 1789 (60.2%)
Number of Voters: 2971
New Zealand Herald poll
Should parents have the right to smack their children for discipline?
Yes: 90%
result under "more polls"
New Zealand Center for Political
Debate poll
Do you believe that the removal of section 59 will reduce child abuse in
New Zealand?
Yes: 4%
No: 96%
Responses received: 2442
results under "Previous polls"
Fencepost.com poll results
Do you support the anti-smacking bill h4rently before Parliment?
Yes: 2.95%
No: 97.05%
TV3 poll 3.
Do you think there should be a public referendum over the anti-smacking
bill?
Yes 92%
No 8%
Gisborne Herald poll
Should the bill to ban smacking children be passed?
Yes: 12%
No: 86%
Don't know: 2%
Total Votes: 348
Stuff poll
Were you smacked as a kid? If so, how did it leave you feeling?
Occasional smack: and no big deal (1012 votes, 70.2%)
Occasional smack: I still really resent it. (56 votes, 3.9%)
Smacked hard: but I never think about it. (304 votes, 21.1%)
Smacked hard: and the trauma still there. (70 votes, 4.9%)
TV3 poll 1.
The proposed 'anti-smacking' bill has caused a lot of confusion. What do you understand to be the bill's purpose?
To stop parents from smacking their children altogether: 41%
To stop parents from physically abusing their children: 14%
To make it easier for abusive parents to be prosecuted: 10%
All of the above: 24%
I'm still not sure: 10%
Summary of polls over the last two years
