Zelensky holds lead in presidential rating

If the presidential election in Ukraine were held in the near future, most Ukrainians would vote for the incumbent head of state, Volodymyr Zelensky, with the party rating headed by the ruling Servant of the People party, according to a survey conducted by the Rating sociological group on December 16-18, 2021.

The poll found that if the presidential election were held in the near future, 24.2% would vote for Zelensky (among those who will go to the polls and have already decided on who to vote for). Some 13.7% of those polled said they would support European Solidarity party leader Petro Poroshenko, 9.6% - Batkivshchyna party leader Yulia Tymoshenko, 9.2% - co-chairman of the Opposition Platform – For Life party Yuriy Boiko, 6.9% - Nashi party leader Yevhenii Muraiev, 6.8% - former Verkhovna Rada Chairman Dmytro Razumkov, 6.7% - Strength and Honor party leader Ihor Smeshko, 6.2% - former Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, and 3.1% - Radical Party leader Oleh Liashko. Other candidates would garner less than 3% of the vote.

At the same time, the party rating is headed by the Servant of the People party, with support from 19.2% of respondents who will go to the polls and have already decided on their choice. Some 14.1% of respondents are ready to vote for the European Solidarity party, 11.1% - for Batkivshchyna, and 10.5% - for Opposition Platform - For Life. Some 6.8% of those polled support the Ukrainian Strategy of Groysman, 6.5% - the Strength and Honor party, 6% - Razumkov's Smart Politics party, 5.7% - Muraiev's Nashi party, 4.2% - the Radical Party, 4% - Vitali Klitschko's UDAR, 3.5% - Svoboda, 2.6% - the Party of Shariy, and 2.2% - the Holos party. The rating of other parties does not exceed 2%.

The survey was conducted among residents of Ukraine aged 18 and older in all regions, except for the temporarily occupied territories of Crimea and the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. A total of 2,500 respondents were surveyed via CATI (Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviews). The poll's margin of error does not exceed 2%.

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