Michael Wood

Mount Albert, which has got the lowest majority of any, just a bare 18 votes majority.

Helen White seems to be doing slightly better than her main opponent, which is not Kule Wong or the Greens, even though they've both got prominent candidates, but is, of course, Melissa Lee.

And I think for an electorate that probably leans left and certainly has done over history, if people think that the contest is between Helen White and Melissa Lee, then Helen White will win that.

So, I mean, those are some of the interesting seats in Auckland.

But then we learned, and indeed Labour learned, that its own MP was also in footage from a previous event.

Corinne Leone, in the end resigning as a Labour candidate over this.

She will remain on the ballot as an independent, however.

Phil, do you want to pick up on what has unfolded here? Did Chris Hipkins sort of back himself into a corner by coming out so forcefully over the Te Pāti Māori and Green MP's images on social media?

So why didn't he say so? Why

didn't he take an even tougher stance?

I think he was probably trying to preserve the dignity of the candidate involved.

He understood that she had members of her family who were gang members.

And again, Māori electorates, they are, pretty big geographically sized electric so yeah she i hope she's got an electric vehicle or something like that um the next

one we thought we'd speak to is mount roscoe which is alex's electric this time around um so the candidates running here is carlos ching who's the incumbent for national michael wood for labour um you probably will remember him he was the mp last time and he lost He had a bit of a misstep in the previous time as a minister.

Forgot to sell $1,500 worth of shares.

And I think it was Chippy at that point.

There was a poll out this week, no idea of the reliability of it, it wasn't sort of from a normal, one of the normal pollsters we see floating around.

Yes, let's very importantly

note that this was a poll commissioned by Michael Wood's campaign team.

Now,

There are actually instances on the campaign.

He mentioned Michael Wood's resignation.

But there are instances where your polling's holding up, and then one thing happens, and then you can withstand this and this and this and this, and they withstood a lot.

And then Michael Wood happened, and people were like, actually, I'm done.

Sorry, it's over.

And so maybe this is that event.

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Couple of polls out yesterday, one of which I'll get to right now, but the other one is probably more important, which is the Mount Roskill poll with Michael Wood looking like he's going to win it.

Michael Wood famously of the shareholding, et cetera.

You remember the story.

But the point being, it's a seat that National's going to lose, which does bring us back yet again to this ongoing splitting the vote drama.

The only reason I'm mentioning this particular electorate is it's an interesting one and does go to the splitting of the vote debate.

It's community engagement commissioned by the Woods campaign, so obviously take that with a grain of salt.

So it's Michael Wood with his own poll spruiking [laughs] his own results.

She's from the Princess Street branch of the Labour Party.

Helen Clark, Phil Goff, Michael Wood.

Just wonder.

So if things continue to tank for Chippy...