But the popularity of the online survey by a Whitireia polytechnic journalism class has some asking if anyone has stuffed the ballot box.
At 9 last night, the "babes'' of Parliament led the survey - titled "Which politician would you go to bed with?'' - with Paula Bennett and Melissa Lee following close behind.
John Key was the most "popular'' male but his party wingman, Bill English, was on one and was the last person to scrape a vote.
Surprisingly, Don Brash, the balding, septuagenarian Act leader, is among the more fancied politicians.
Jim Tucker, who runs the journalism course, wrote on Facebook: "Some people are actually taking it seriously - especially a lot of politicians who appear to have ordered their staff and friends to vote for them.''
"We had a long discussion about putting up some sort of poll, our first of the election.
"The usual discussions were - will you vote, who are you going to vote for and so on. But the class decided to do something different, and see what people would actually vote about.
"It grew from, `Which politician would you spend time on a desert island with?'''
Mr Tucker said people could vote as many times as they liked and while he was not sure if the politicians on the list were "venal'' enough to pick themselves, he was suspicious.
"It was done pretty tongue-in-cheek but within a very short time we've had politicians go from no vote to many.
"John Key had one vote for most of the day and then jumped to 30. Melissa Lee went from three to 46 in minutes.''
HOT AND NOT
Nikki Kaye 206 votes
Jacinda Ardern 112
Paula Bennett 104
Melissa Lee 46
John Key 33
Judith Collins 21
Don Brash 16
Helen Clark, Metiria Turei 8
Gareth Hughes, Hekia Parata 7
Peter Dunne, Kris Faafoi 3
Katrina Shanks, Russel Norman, Winston Peters 2
Hone Harawira, Charles Chauvel, Phil Goff, Pita Sharples, Annette King, Tariana Turia, Bill English 1
