In March 2026 we commissioned a poll to find out what percentage of voters would be more likely to vote for a party that opposed fluoridation, and what percentage would be less likely.
It turns out that slightly more people would be more likely to vote for a party that opposed fluoridation than those that would be less likely. As we suspected, for a large number of people the issue would make no difference to them.
What was surprising is that the voters more likely to vote for a party opposing fluoridation were the parties on both ends of the political spectrum. Potential NZ First and Te Pati Maori voters were far more likely to be in favour of stopping fluoridation than being in favour of having fluoridation.
The other surprising aspect was that young people are far more likely to be opposed to fluoridation than in favour of it.
As we had always suspected, it is Labour voters and older voters who are more in favour of fluoridation.