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# Seymour Twice as Popular as Prebble
- URL: https://goodoil.news/seymour-twice-as-popular-as-prebble/
- Published: 2021-06-01T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-06-01T01:38:20.000Z
- Author: Reproduced with permission
- Tags: NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:54

**Lindsay Mitchell**  
[lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com](https://lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com/?ref=goodoil.news)

*Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001\. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio, tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under commission and exhibits at Wellington, New Zealand, galleries.*

David Farrar has gone back through poll archives to see if any other ACT leader ever surpassed David Seymour’s current rating at 6% as preferred Prime Minister. Here’s what he found:

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/-LyRx0nhOELw/YLSgXcY8m2I/AAAAAAAAIe8/UtqZouz5An0FT38W20xRYnY2lIb7__WiQCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/seymour.jpg)](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LyRx0nhOELw/YLSgXcY8m2I/AAAAAAAAIe8/UtqZouz5An0FT38W20xRYnY2lIb7%5F%5FWiQCLcBGAsYHQ/s299/seymour.jpg?ref=goodoil.news)

\* Richard Prebble (96-04): 3%

\* Rodney Hide (04-11): 1%

\* Don Brash (11): 0.8%

\* John Banks (12-14): 0.2%

You have to hand it to Seymour after so many years as a solitary MP. He never wavered. Exactly the kind of attitude and perseverance New Zealand needs.