Two thirds of people want to keep the current flag according to a poll taken just before the first flag referendum voting papers arrived in letterboxes across the country.
In the latest 3News Reid Research Poll, 65 per cent said they wanted to keep the current flag, while 28 per cent wanted to change - similar figures to two months ago indicating the shortlisted flags have done little to budge opinion.
The poll was taken from November 9 - 17, ending just before voting papers for people to rank their preferred alternative designs started arriving in letterboxes last Friday.
Although Prime Minister John Key has campaigned for a change of flag, more than half of National voters wanted to keep the current flag as well as three quarters of Labour voters.
It comes as Mr Key was accused of being "tasteless" by Labour leader Andrew Little for linking an image used to mark Jonah Lomu's death to the flag issue.
