Zelensky would get 41% of vote if presidential election were held in April

KIIS Deputy Director Anton Hrushetsky presented the results of the survey entitled "Socio-political orientations of the population of Ukraine" at a press conference on Friday, June 5, according to an Ukrinform correspondent.

"If the presidential election took place at the end of April, with eight candidates taking part in them, Volodymyr Zelensky would receive relatively the most votes. Among those who are going to vote and have decided on a candidate, 41% would support the incumbent head of state. In second place is Petro Poroshenko (16% of those decided), followed by Ihor Smeshko (9.2%), Yuriy Boiko (8.9%), Yulia Tymoshenko (8.7%), Viktor Medvedchuk (6%), Oleh Liashko (4%), and Svyatoslav Vakarchuk (1.5%). Five percent named another candidate," Hrushetsky said.

According to him, thanks to the answers of respondents, it was also possible to create a rating of the parties entering the parliament if the elections to the Verkhovna Rada were also held at the end of April. Some 29.9% of respondents, of those who have already decided on their choice, would vote for the Servant of the People party, 15.8% for Opposition Platform – For Life, 13.5% for the European Solidarity party, 11.6% for Batkivshchyna, 6.9% for Strength and Honor, 4.9% for Oleh Liashko's Radical Party, and 4.7% for Svoboda. Some 3.6% of respondents could vote for the Party of Sharij, 2.8% for Holos, 2.7% for the Ukrainian Strategy of Groysman, 2.2% for the Opposition Bloc, and 1.5% are ready to vote for other political parties and blocs.

The survey was carried out on April 26-30, 2020. A total of 1,500 people were interviewed. The poll's margin of error (with a probability of 0.95 and without taking into account the design effect) does not exceed 2.6% for figures close to 50%, 2.2% for figures close to 25%, 1.7% for figures close to 10%, and 1.1% for figures close to 5%.

Photo: President's Office