Auckland mayoral candidate Efeso Collins is leading the race for the top job by a smidge in a new poll commissioned for his campaign.
The race between Collins and Wayne Brown is closing in by a couple of percentage points, in the poll commissioned by Talbot Mills for Collins' campaign. The poll, released on Saturday has Collins at 27 percent and Brown closely behind at 25 percent, with those who are unsure being excluded.
People who were unsure made up 34 percent of those polled, with 740 voters polled when those who are unsure were removed.
When people who are unsure were included in the poll, Collins sat at 19 percent and Brown at 17 percent with a margin of error of 2.8 percent.
The poll cast four weeks of rolling data and polled 1230 voters altogether. The poll also includes one week with former candidate Viv Beck out of the race.
When voters were asked who they trusted, 26 percent said they trusted Collins and 25 percent trusted Brown - with 49 percent of voters being unsure of who they trusted.
It comes after a Ratepayers' Alliance-Curia poll released earlier this week told a different story and had Brown leading and Collins closely following behind. That poll had Brown at 28 percent and Collins at 26 percent.
